RELG 2650

I loved this class, but lectures were completely unnecessary. Most everything you need to know comes from the readings, so you SHOULD DO THEM! They're also really interesting, I found, so I enjoyed them, even though there are a lot of them. There's a discussion section with this also, which was fine. I do not recommend Jeremy, though. He was a pretty bad TA.

This was my favorite class that I took this semester! Keeping up on the readings each week is the key to doing well, because they help you understand the lectures and are what the discussions are about each week. Only 3 2-page paper whose topics you get to pick, a midterm, and a final. He gives a study guide for the midterm and the final, so if you do those, you will be in excellent shape! Childress himself is an awesome professor and posts lecture outlines for each lecture.

Fantastic course! Professor Childress is one of the smartest and nicest men you'll ever have the pleasure of meeting, and the TA's were all fantastic. Readings every week, a midterm, a final, and three papers (graded somewhat easily). The topics are fascinating, I would highly recommend this class!

This class has a lot of reading, and often times on repeated topics but for the tests you basically have to memorize what author wrote what, and what was his/her position on the topic. There is one midterm (worth 40pts and 40% of grade, so yes, every point on your test is a point of your final grade), one final( again, 40pts and 40%) and 3 papers that you hand in to your TA and altogether they comprise 20%.

Childress is very knowledgable in his field and I encourage you to get to know him. He wants to get to know his students. He asked me at an ourside event what my name was, where Im from and where I went to high school -- i'm telling ya, he's genuine! I would suggest sitting in the front because he is a little soft spoken even with the microphone and he also tends to ramble sometimes

Very interesting course. Readings are extensive and can take a long time to complete each week, but they're normally on fairly interesting topics. Midterm and final require preparation but if you're good about doing all the readings and using the study guide then they're manageable. William Boyce is a great TA - he's funny and his sections are always interesting.