MDST 4320

This is honestly one of the most disappointing classes I have ever taken at UVA. I took it for a capstone and while the course material had the opportunity to be really interesting, Goin quite literally summarizes the readings in every single class. This would be nice if you didn't do the readings, but you are also tasked to write an annotated bibliography for each reading, so you just sit through 2.5 hours of her lecturing on exactly what you already read, and then being watching her be confused by her own assignment guidelines. I don't think this class syllabus has been updated since its creation. It is not worth it to go to lecture WHATSOEVER, and I know several students who attended approximately three lectures and still managed to get As. If you want an easy capstone that you can blow off and still get a good grade in, take this class, but the lecture is so excruciating, I'd rather have taken anything else and done twice the work.