SOC 2320

Blumberg is a cool lady, but her lectures are scattered and hard to follow. She means well, but loses alot of her students in her tedious descriptions.

This class is all about women and is taught from a very feminist viewpoint. A more conservative viewpoint on gender is not acceptable. This was the most frustrating class I took at UVA because I disagreed with a lot of the readings, but was not necessarily "allowed" to disagree with opinions during discussion. The class offered an easy A, but I would have rather received a lower grade in another class than sit through a semester about "gender", i.e. only women.

This class has a great topic that is unfortunately boring in lecture. You really can get away without attending lecture; just do some reading and get the notes. It's really easy. Make sure you get a good TA

Overall, this is a pretty easy class. As long as you go to lecture and discussion, you WILL get a good grade. The readings are much more usefull for the first half. I didn't do any of them for the 2nd and still got an A. Also, Prof. Blumberg is really interesting and tells amazing stories. I would take the class for this reason alone.

Lectures are scattered and repetetive but easy to do well if you do the reading

Really boring lectures and a ton of readings, but the class overall wasn't that horrible.

Mili K. is the worst TA ever.

Prof. Blumberg is like a cute grandma. She's cool and tells pretty interesting stories but she is sometimes scattered and rambles off topic. The first half of the course was way more interesting in that you actually talked about gender in modern or recent society whereas the second half of the course is about horticultural societies. I found it difficult to pay attention during these lectures. Overall, it's a pretty easy course. I didn't do any of the readings and got a B+. You have a midterm, a final, a paper, and a couple of scattered 2 page assignments. Would recommend this class it was pretty easy

If you're looking for an easy soc class that'll teach you the basics about gender, then take this course. If you've already read anything about feminist theory or gender before, then don't take this course. The first half of the class was essentially all about establishing that women are disadvantaged through extensive statistics, and the second half was all about the history of gender. The first half of the course felt like beating a dead horse; instead of going over the nuances of gender in our society and how it shapes our social sphere, we just kept learning statistics about gender discrepancies. The second half was slightly more informative, but even that was superficial and pretty boring. You just need to skim the readings for the exams, and Blumberg pretty much goes over the midterm and final in her review sessions. The midterm and final are multiple choice, and pretty easy if you study her lecture notes. The other assignments are graded pretty easily. Blumberg gives liberal extra credit (like 3% of your final grade for submitting some easy assignments). I got an A with pretty minimal effort, besides putting in a lot of time and work for the final paper (which is 30% of your grade).

idk what this class was. The professor had me very confused. She's really old, and kind of wacky. She always strayed off topic, and it was very hard to pay attention to the lectures. I think that SIS said that there were like 150 people enrolled in the course, but sometimes when I counted the lecture hall (because I couldn't pay attention) I only counted 40-60 people. Some of the readings were super interesting, others were pretty boring or just obvious. The tests were super easy (especially if you went to the review sessions!) and they didn't really require attendance at lectures. Other than the 2 exams worth 20% each (no final), your grade was composed of a research paper (30%), discussion participation (13%) and a couple 1 page assignments. There were also lots of opportunities for extra credit. Fauzia was an awesome TA! Really funny and helpful! Overall, this class was a really easy A. However, it was an extremely boring lecture, and I just didn't feel like I learned a lot.