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Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels HNUH268B Expecting a B Anonymous 05/23/2024	Be very wary of this class!! Professors Samuels is a very boring lecturer. There are two reading due every sunday which are very long and tedious and your mandatory comments are graded very harshly. She says she grades the kahoots off of participation but that is a lie, it is off of accuracy. She doesn’t tell you anything about the final exam(no format no content) except a list of almost 200 words that you have to define yourself. I would not take this class again, definitely steer clear
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels HNUH268B Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/06/2024	For a UH course, this course required way more work than I expected. The weekly readings are incredibly dense, even for someone who is typically fine with reading academic texts. They are also long, expect 40-60 pages a week. Kahoots are every week and based on the readings, and oftentimes asks about incredibly small details. There was also a final, which is not typical of UH courses. On the brighter side, while this course was dry at times the overall topics were thought-provoking and interesting to study. However, I would not recommend this class. It is unfortunate this is the mandatory I-Series for this cluster because its sister course HNUH268V is one of my favorites this semester.
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels HNUH268B Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/26/2024	Policy HEAVY. This is less of a "heritage" class and more of a "what is the theoretical idea of heritage and how does international law work" class. There is a lot of reading and writing per week, and it feels more like a grad class. Honors clusters are always hit-or-miss, but I'd suggest avoiding this one.
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels HNUH268B Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/05/2024	Be. Careful. This course is policy-heavy, focusing on international law and heritage as a THEORETICAL concept. It is incredibly difficult with long readings fit for a graduate class. Take a different cluster unless you're prepared to work your butt off (or unless you want to work for the UN).
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels HNUH268B Anonymous 03/18/2024	This class is unnecessarily hard because Professor Lafrenz-Samuels is so afraid of AI. We have two long, difficult-to-understand readings every week, where we are required to leave at least three thoughtful comments and then we have a graded Kahoot on each reading. The comments are graded very harshly, and barely anyone gets full points while no feedback is given on how to improve. The kahoots are supposed to be about your individual understanding of the readings, but she picks the most random details out of the 30-page readings that are impossible to remember. When the whole class emailed her individually, expressing their concerns about the Kahoots and readings, she responded rudely to each email, telling them to go to office hours to get help rather than address any of their concerns. Her lectures are so boring and cover random topics that are sometimes completely unrelated to the readings. She has not graded anything in weeks, so we have no idea if we are improving or doing just as badly as we all were at the start. Do not take this class with this professor if you do not have to.
Justin Mohammadi HNUH268B Expecting an A Anonymous 12/18/2023	This course is a new course taught for the first tine this semester. Justin being the first TA did an AMAZING job. He helped us to understand the graduate level readings we were assigned in the course, while relating to us where he could. He definitely works the class and asks questions to get feedback about what will benefit us most. Also, a few discussions were cancelled and he was ok about communicating it. It wasn't a problem though because class was cancelled and when it comes to attendance you have to be there because that part of how you get participation points, but its not bad going to discussion. So if you decide to take this course I hope you could have him as your TA if he's up for doing it again after dealing with our professor.

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
HNUH268B

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/23/2024

Be very wary of this class!! Professors Samuels is a very boring lecturer. There are two reading due every sunday which are very long and tedious and your mandatory comments are graded very harshly. She says she grades the kahoots off of participation but that is a lie, it is off of accuracy. She doesn’t tell you anything about the final exam(no format no content) except a list of almost 200 words that you have to define yourself. I would not take this class again, definitely steer clear

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
HNUH268B

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/06/2024

For a UH course, this course required way more work than I expected. The weekly readings are incredibly dense, even for someone who is typically fine with reading academic texts. They are also long, expect 40-60 pages a week. Kahoots are every week and based on the readings, and oftentimes asks about incredibly small details. There was also a final, which is not typical of UH courses. On the brighter side, while this course was dry at times the overall topics were thought-provoking and interesting to study. However, I would not recommend this class. It is unfortunate this is the mandatory I-Series for this cluster because its sister course HNUH268V is one of my favorites this semester.

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
HNUH268B

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
04/26/2024

Policy HEAVY. This is less of a "heritage" class and more of a "what is the theoretical idea of heritage and how does international law work" class. There is a lot of reading and writing per week, and it feels more like a grad class. Honors clusters are always hit-or-miss, but I'd suggest avoiding this one.

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
HNUH268B

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
04/05/2024

Be. Careful. This course is policy-heavy, focusing on international law and heritage as a THEORETICAL concept. It is incredibly difficult with long readings fit for a graduate class. Take a different cluster unless you're prepared to work your butt off (or unless you want to work for the UN).

Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
HNUH268B

Anonymous
03/18/2024

This class is unnecessarily hard because Professor Lafrenz-Samuels is so afraid of AI. We have two long, difficult-to-understand readings every week, where we are required to leave at least three thoughtful comments and then we have a graded Kahoot on each reading. The comments are graded very harshly, and barely anyone gets full points while no feedback is given on how to improve. The kahoots are supposed to be about your individual understanding of the readings, but she picks the most random details out of the 30-page readings that are impossible to remember. When the whole class emailed her individually, expressing their concerns about the Kahoots and readings, she responded rudely to each email, telling them to go to office hours to get help rather than address any of their concerns. Her lectures are so boring and cover random topics that are sometimes completely unrelated to the readings. She has not graded anything in weeks, so we have no idea if we are improving or doing just as badly as we all were at the start. Do not take this class with this professor if you do not have to.

Justin Mohammadi
HNUH268B

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/18/2023

This course is a new course taught for the first tine this semester. Justin being the first TA did an AMAZING job. He helped us to understand the graduate level readings we were assigned in the course, while relating to us where he could. He definitely works the class and asks questions to get feedback about what will benefit us most. Also, a few discussions were cancelled and he was ok about communicating it. It wasn't a problem though because class was cancelled and when it comes to attendance you have to be there because that part of how you get participation points, but its not bad going to discussion. So if you decide to take this course I hope you could have him as your TA if he's up for doing it again after dealing with our professor.

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