![]() I took a writing 2 class the previous quarter and got a solid A. Some kids are really good at that, but I'm not. Everything else is just a guessing game about what the professor and TA wants you to do. I highly recommend you just go watch the movies offered in the class on your own time because that'll be the only thing that's worth it about this class. I had to go pass or no pass even though I would've likely gotten a B just because I didn't want this class of ALL CLASSES to be my first B. Overall, i took this class as a first year thinking it would be an easy GE since it was a film class. This makes things extremely frustrating since you have a hard time finding details of the film that haven't been covered that have thematic relevance. The professor loves to paraphrase stuff from the reading to look intelligent and REALLY loves to analyze the key scenes, identifying the aspects of the film that have to do with the prompt. Obviously, this is a huge pain in the ass considering you have to do all of that reading on top of having a social life that night. The worst part is that anything said in the analysis by the professor cannot be said in your paper so you have to wait until thursday night to begin writing. Another negative aspect about this class is that you watch the movie on tuesday, you hear the professor analyze the movie on thursday and you turn in a 700 page paper on friday, if you choose to write on that specific movie. ![]() To be fair, i did learn a ton about italian culture and cinema in general but 90 percent of the reading I could have done without. I read every single page of all of the readings and sacrificed a good portion of my Thursday night doing so all for one tiny question on a quiz that half the time i answered incorrectly. So one would say, "Why in the world would I do the reading?" A) Because 1-2 out of every 4 questions on the midterm and final come from it and B) the questions on the quizzes are definitely those bullshit questions from some random part of the reading that usually prompt a shake of the head in disgust. The other two come from something said in lecture, and something pertaining to the movie itself. Only one question on the quiz would come from the reading. The reading sometimes equates to about 80 pages of not the typical textbook reading, but extremely dense literary analysis or philosophy. The quizzes were RIDICULOUS (as in terrible). who is a Lit major and graded essays like they were expected to be Pulitzer status. Most of all, this class is all about the luck of the draw. I wish I read this review before taking this class: The reading assignments for this class were absolutely horrible.
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