MDST 3050

Goin does the best at making a very boring class at least somewhat interesting. If you're taking this, you are probably a media studies major required to do so. If you are organized/somewhat pay attention, you'll be ok. Goin is a good instructor, she has an open-note policy (only if the notes are written/printed out), which is really nice and helps make the quizzes/midterm/final rather easy. If you show up and do the work, you will get a good grade. Attendance (for reading quizzes) is really important also. Goin really cares, so please be respectful! Most people were on their phone the entire class and she got a tad upset (if you need to check texts, do it on your computer instead).

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This class is a required course for Media Studies majors, but Goin presented the information in a compelling way and graded fairly. Work consisted of two exams, one short paper on an online archive, a final group creative project on a topic of media change (including a proposal and peer reviews as part of the grade), and weekly short pop quizzes in class of the textbook/Collab readings (she dropped the worst 3, and you could use printed out reading notes). Her grading on all the assignments was fair and the exams were open note and weren't too difficult. The quizzes helped keep me on top of the readings and the final project was OK - at some times having to work in a group wasn't ideal, but the end product turned out well.
Class every week consisted of a time period in media, from early civilization and the creation of paper to modern day digital technology. Like others have said, I wished we spent a little more time on the latter (we only spent 2 classes on it), but for the most part it wasn't too bad. Classes consisted of a lecture plus an in-class group activity, and her lectures weren't the most interesting thing ever but also weren't super boring. Goin is a good choice to take this with if you're a MDST major!

This class is a media studies major requirement, and I really enjoyed it. The "pop" quizzes each week are fairly easy if you do the weekly readings, and all exams are open note. I learned a lot in this class and it ended up being one of my favorite classes of the semester. I also enjoyed having Dr. Goin as a professor so much that I purposefully enrolled in a class of hers for the following semester.

This class wasn't too hard but it involved a lot of weekly reading. However, midterm and final are open note, so if you have good notes from the readings and lecture, you will be pretty much set. Weekly pop quizzes on readings were annoying but also kept me accountable for completing the readings so I can't complain. Overall, the class was fine but the creative group project was a pain. The due dates for the group creative project, the group self-reflection, and the (very thorough) peer evaluations were in the middle of finals season and it was pretty stressful. But in the end I got an A
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This course is required for MDST majors but this was one of my least favorite courses. In terms of assignments, you had weekly pop quizzes (open notes but they had to be written), a small paper, a midterm (she gives you a study guide), a group project, and a final exam. The readings were a little bit long but they are manageable. Professor Goin is very knowledgable but sometimes her choices in teaching do not make the most sense. For example, when we shifted to online learning she wanted us to watch her lectures to get the prompts for our collab discussion boards. After you watched the lecture, you would go to collab and type your response, then have to respond to two of your classmates' responses. I thought this was very time consuming especially when everyone is saying the same exact thing. The group project was through wiki pages which was such a waste of time. If we were allowed to use something more interactive such as Prezi, google slides, word press, ANYTHING would have been better than wiki pages. All in all, the course was not challenging but it could have been better.

This is the professor to take this course with. Dr. Goin makes the course structure quite clear: this semester it was weekly quizzes in person then per-lecture posts replacing those after the online shift (collectively worth 30% of your grade) plus a midterm and a final (each worth 15%). There is a group project near the end of the semester (worth 20%) and a short research paper based on an archive around the beginning (worth 20%). The grading is fair generally and the amount of reading is usually manageable (quizzes were open note to whatever you write down from the readings).

Dr. Goin is very knowledgeable, and if you take good notes, you'll do fine on the midterm and final. There's one paper (pay attention to the requirements, and put effort into it), and a group project, so your experience there depends on whom you're paired with. Several of my friends in the course didn't like Dr. Goin's teaching style because she spends little time (one class) on contemporary media (esp. the Internet). Don't take this class unless you're Media Studies and have to, because it is dense, but for me, Dr. Goin was a good professor for the class.