RELG 2160

Best teacher I have had at UVa, do your reading show up to class and you will be fine. I did take extensive notes and that really helped

Professor Warren is awesome! Material is manageable and easy to understand. Not an incredibly engaging course but definitely not going to kill your GPA. Norris is a fantastic TA.

Probably one of my favorite classes at UVa. Professor Warren is great - enthusiastic, plays live music in class, and she's really smart. A lot of reading for the class, most were interesting. She gives you the terms for the tests and finals, all you have to do is go over your class notes and you'll get an A.

Do your reading, go to class, and you will get an A. Put some thought into exams.. Professor Warren gives you all the questions in advance, therefore you need to put some time and thought into the "importance" of the question. Simply answering the question will only get you a B. If you are willing to study for each exam you will get an A. Don't take class thinking it is an easy A if you aren't willing to study at least a little.

This was a very enjoyable class. Professor Warren made lectures almost like a story rather than just dry information. She even played guitar and sang for us occasionally. Discussion sections were basically an overview of lecture, so make sure that you take good notes in lecture so that you can participate in section. She also sends out a study guide a few weeks before the tests (2 midterms and a final), which will be much easier if you complete them in small groups (this is, of course, allowed). Participation is also 25% of your grade, so like I said, make sure that you attend lectures and take good notes. The reading for the class is not excessive and is moderately interesting. My favorite reading assignments were some of the books that were assigned (one was a book of sermons by Martin Luther King, Jr). The grading was relatively fair, but you need to study and really connect your ideas in the short answer, identification, and essay portions (which is the entire test) to broader topics from the class in order to get a good grade. The first midterm was 10%, the second was 25%, the final was 40%, and participation was 25%. I got a low B on the first midterm and a B- on the second, but I still ended up with an A minus in the class because I participated a lot in discussion and studied hard (by this point, you should know the format and what to expect) for the final. Professor Warren also added one whole point to our final grades if we did the course evals on Collab. Pretty fair class, but you have to try--which isn't hard because it's relatively interesting material taught by an amiable and approachable professor.

Prof. Warren was extremely enthusiastic about the subjects as well as engaging during lecture. Lecture attendance is a MUST though, she doesn't really focus on the textbook at all

I took this course because I heard it was pretty easy and I needed to satisfy my humanities requirement. However, I found the material really boring. Professor Warren requires that you handwrite all lecture notes (unless you need accommodations of course), but she speaks super fast. She really knows and enjoys the subject, but I felt like her lectures were jumbled at time and I couldn't distinguish which facts were important at first (you do pick this up after taking the test and knowing what she deems as important). The grade breakdown consists of a discussion grade, two midterms, and one final. Discussion involves talking about the primary reading of the week. This was one aspect of the class that I disliked - there was just way too much reading every week. There is not only the reading from the textbook (usually brief, quickly describes the religious movement) but also a usually long reading from the course book. Charlie Cotherman was my TA, and I thought he was good and led discussion well. Discussion is mandatory, which is sort of a bummer since I didn't find it that helpful. While she gives you a study guide beforehand for the exams, it really was not as helpful as I thought it would be. Sure, you get to know which topics to study, HOWEVER you don't really know what she wants for the answer...Overall, I guess this class would have been more interesting if I was actually interested in the material. Take it if you kind of want to know more about America's religious history or are just interested in religious studies in general.

The class is really easy since she gives you a study guide of the terms and identifications for the two midterms and the final. There's a lot of boring readings that you can mostly skim since the TA's review the material. Sometimes it's hard to discern the main idea but the TA I had (Daniel Wise) was very helpful and made time for his students. You do not really need the Religion in America textbook. Overall, an easy class for a history/humanities credit.

The class is pretty easy, and Professor Warren gives you plenty of resources in preparation for the exams. There are two midterms and a final and for each one of these she hands out a study guide that has all the questions she's going to ask (and a few that she will leave off the exam) so if you just go to lectures, take good notes, and prepare well from the study guides you should be fine. Her lectures are very entertaining as she demonstrates a real passion about the subject. She's kind of strange in her own cute little way and she'll often sing and play songs on her guitar if it relates to the time period or religion we are studying. I had Daniel Wise as a TA and he was really great. I wouldn't even buy the textbook if I were you, though, I don't think I opened it once. The course packet provides readings for discussion sections and that's all you really need. I'd definitely recommend this class.

This is the second class I've taken with Professor Warren and she's probably my favorite teacher I've had at UVA. The class is pretty straightforward, mostly just looking at how religion has been a part of American history, which is really easy because a lot of the context most people have already learned in history classes (MLK, great depression, Cold War, etc), so that makes the new information a lot easier to learn. Sometimes lectures can be a little dull and you have to take a lot of notes, but before each test (2 midterms and a final), Warren sends out a review sheet with possible terms/essays that might be on the test and then she'll put about half of them on the actual exam, so as long as you know what is on the review sheet its really easy to do well. She also likes to play the guitar in class sometimes and is just a really entertaining person in general, so definitely take this class if you get a chance.