ARTH 1051

This class is pretty enjoyable, especially with Dobbins at the helm. He loves what he does, and you realize it by the end of Lecture 1. Lots of material and memorization. If you can master that, youre good to go.

Be prepared for a lot of memorization, but it is an interesting course

I would NOT recommend my TA, Maria Z. She was horrible. The class was interesting, but VERY hard! It is all memorizing. If you already have a tough schedule, DO NOT take this. Wait until you will have a large amount of time to put towards it.

This was one of my favorite classes! Dobbins is a great professor and he's really enthusiastic about art history. His jokes, humor, ancedotes make class so much more interesting! Though this class was enjoyable, there is a lot of work needed to be done. Lots of memorization for the exams, and you need to actively study for them. The identification of slides (3 minutes/slide) were intense. All in all however, this class definetly followed up to Dobbin's "life-long gurantee!" :)

Aside, Scott's a great TA and he really leads discussion well in sections. He even lectured on French Gothic, which was also enjoyable.

Dan Weiss has been my favorite TA so far at UVA. Great guy.

If you are good at memorization, this will be an easy class for you. It's a great class full of interesting information.

The class is a LOT of memorization, and the lectures could probably be more interesting. The midterm and final can be really tough since he is sometimes picky about things. But you do learn a lot.

lots and lots and lots of studying

Memorization is a killer for this course, but very worthwhile.

ARTH101 definitely covered interesting material, but lectures can get very boring, especially since they are an hour and 15 minutes. Overall, the class is alot of memorization and requires only a significant amount when studying for the quizzes, midterm, and final. You can't wait till the last minute to study because you have to know everything about every work studied in lecture. I probably put in around 30 hours of studying for the final and got an A in the class. I would recommend it only if you're interested in art history, not if you want an easy A.