HIEA 2101

Go to class and listen to lectures. Dimberg grades based on what he says but not so much based on what's in the books he assigns. You really only have to work two weeks for the midterm and final which are your whole grade.

Lecture style is very old fashioned but if you stick with it and study efficiently you will do okay

Dimberg is an awesome professor and really makes you want to learn about Korea. His tests are hard cause he gives you no indication of what are on them, so pretty much any event, person, time period, etc. is fare game. He also is quite a harsh grader on the papers, but if you go to him and show a revision or two he is much more reasonable.

Professor Dimberg is great; he knows and enjoys the material, and goes through it without making it too boring. The class only has two tests and two sets of papers, which is almost entirely based off the material he talks about in class. The books don't really helpful, so make sure you go to lecture and take good notes.

I don't understand why the other reviewers have given this man favorable reviews. Lectures are extremely boring. He focuses on trivial details concerning Buddhism, rather than actual events in Korea history. Plays favorites, and gives everyone else the same grade regardless of effort. So be sure to suck up to him. Went to office hours after every quiz and paper, to no avail. Don't understand how this man grades.

Professor Dimberg is a brilliant, kind, and generous professor who loves sharing his knowledge of Korea with students. You can tell this man loves what he teaches, and the class really isn't very difficult at all. You'll come out glad that you took it.