GSVS 2150

I love Pheobe Crisman, and I also love sustainability. With that being said, I don't think you have to love sustainability to excel in this course, especially since it is a wide range of perspectives encompassing all of the different areas of sustainability. The course format is 8 required homework that are lecture reflections connecting the reading to the lecture, however, you can choose to do this homework whenever you want throughout the semester you just have to do 8. The rest of the work is just 2-3 small projects that are not super time-heavy and pretty interesting. The final is a project that is spanned throughout the entire course so you don't feel overwhelmed. It's an advocacy letter about a topic of your choosing. Crisman is a super nice professor and I would recommend this course to anyone.

I found this class both enjoyable and educational. It's an excellent broad-covering intro to sustainability - if you're not sure if you're interested, for sure give it a go. The class wasn't super hard - the assignments are mostly short discussion questions, with a couple longer projects built in, so no worries there.

Pheobe Crisman is a great teacher, and extremely passionate regarding her area of expertise. I would strongly recommend taking at least one class with her.

Love Phoebe but having the TA/co-professor Glassie (not really sure what she is) grade everything was terrible and took very long, had no idea what to expect on the quizzes. Besides that, mostly every lecture is a guest speaker talking about a new topic which is really cool and you get alot of different perspectives and expertise. Phoebe is really nice but don't think she really knows what is going on with grading at all because the sole TA Glassie does it all. Just attend lectures and take notes, those notes will be crucial for your 4 quizzes. There are so many readings she assigns but I did not read a single one all semester and was fine, ended with an A so just take good notes during lectures if you dont want to read and you'll be fine. All the guest lecturers were so cool and interesting too. Pretty chill class minus the disorganized grading #tCF2020