AMST 2001

This class had really interesting topics, and Prof. Higginbotham was great, however Prof. Eschen taught every other week and her lectures were not as clear and structured. The discussion section was great and I had a great discussion leader that always left me understanding what I needed to know and pay closer attention to. This is a class that you could get away with not attending every lecture or do all of the readings and still be successful. I will say that the readings are interesting for the most part. Overall not a bad class.

This class was the best! Professors Hedstrom and Higginbotham are great professors. Although, they both have different teaching styles, and Professor Hedstrom tends to give significantly more reading than Higginbotham. You can tell that they are both very passionate about American Studies, and that makes the class great. I would recommend this class to anyone. Besides the weekly readings, there is a one page response, and if you do all of those and speak in discussion, as well as do well on the midterm and final, you'll receive a good grade. There is also a final project about food of your choice. I hope whoever is reading this takes the class!

Higginbotham is clearly smart, poised, and articulate, but as an art historian, she tries to prove (often racialized, controversial) claims with art or something similarly flimsy or subjective. Pretty boring class, Higginbotham and Hedstrom could've done so much more with the material they have. Readings are easy, really only need to skim them to get an idea of what's in them to do well on weekly reading responses, and they're almost completely useless in terms of midterm/final. Hedstrom assigns book-long readings, don't spend more than 10-15 min on each. Higginbotham's are a little shorter, but still, don't waste your time, just get to the point where your TA thinks you read it. Mary was my TA, pretty nice, good in section, but she probably spent more time this semester thinking of excuses not to response to emails/show to office hours/grade our papers than anything else (classic example is saying she was snowed in without a phone or laptop charger at a friend's house with almost zero snow on the ground).