RELB 2054

The old professor is gone. The new professor COMPLETELY restructured the course. TAs are confused, unsure of the professor's expectations, and return your grades the day your next paper is due. Also. the lectures are M/W, while papers are due Wednesday. This means, you have two days from the first lecture on the topic to write your paper. You don't even get the second lecture before the paper is due.
Another note, lectures/quizzes are posted at 2PM every M/W, so you can't start early on them.

Class structure is not thoughtful whatsoever. Be aware, this class has changed and is no longer worth taking unless you want to major in Buddhism.

-750 word paper every week
-100 pages of reading every week
-10-20 question lecture quiz where you have to find his exact words in the 55min-70min lecture.

This course was interesting and I definitely learned a lot about Buddhism and how Tibetan Buddhism is different than other forms of Buddhism. I would have liked taking this class in person because the professor seemed cool and I never got to interact with him, but the asynchronous format was pretty nice. We had lectures on Monday and Wednesdays that we had to watch within 24 hours of the lecture being posted, which was a nice way to not fall behind. There were multiple readings for each class session that could be pretty long. If you skim too much you'll miss the parts where a monk sets his finger on fire and there are cannibal vampires. Each Wednesday we had to turn in a 750 word reading reflection where we had to come up with a question about the reading and answer it while summarizing and analyzing the readings. Overall, I enjoyed the class and if you do all the work you should get an A. #tCFfall20

This was a painful yet easy A class. You literally do not need to take a single note during lecture, because your entire grade was based on lecture participation, section participation, and a 750 word paper each week. The papers were sort of difficult to write because you had to write them based on readings that we hadn't gone over in class yet, but the TA's grade them so leniently that it doesn't really matter. Andrew is very knowledgeable but I found his lectures pretty boring simply because I didn't really care about the topic. All in all though this class is an easy way to knock out your humanities and non-western requirement.

This class was honestly a pretty interesting class though it was boring at times. There are 10 750-word weekly papers which account for 60% of your whole grade but it's pretty easy to do well on these. The other 40% comes from lecture quizzes which are basically guaranteed 100's and your discussion section which is also basically a 100 if you show up and contribute like once or twice per discussion (assuming your TA is relatively chill). Ended this class with an A+ and overall I was pretty satisfied with the course though the weekly papers can be really tedious at times. The professor is an absolute G too.