AAS 1010

Blyden is a really engaging professor, I took her course fall semester 2023. I really enjoyed the topics that she talked about and just how she spoke about them. This course really helped fill the missing gaps about African American history and showed the misconceptions of slavery and just African culture as a whole. She really put an effort in teaching, and I just overall really enjoyed what she had to teach. When it came to the readings, they genuinely were a lot for me, there were 30 pages plus of different reading a week and plus a book and reading for discussions. Lectures weren't mandatory but if you're going to half-ass the readings please go because they come in handy when you have to write your papers and just understanding the main ideas. You can't really get away from not doing the readings because you have to site them in your papers, and you need to be very detailed and precise and also offer your own thoughts on the topic. I think there were 2 or 3 papers about 8-pages long. For the book you read there's weekly writing on the chapters your read ( 1page). I played around with the fonts and sizing sometimes. Overall interesting, can be a little overwhelming but I really enjoyed it. Blyden also appreciates participation in lectures. The TAs are super smart and pretty nice, they give extensions if you ask/need it.