RELG 2160

Take it for easy A or if you like religious studies. That's all. Warren is plug.

Heather Warren is the absolute sweetest. Had her totally virtually but she was so cute and literally sang to us multiple times. Class is great, curriculum is decently interesting and she gives out review sheets for every exam with exactly what will be on it. Pretty sure discussion participation and exams are the only grades. Anyway, recommend with this teacher.

Prof Warren clearly cares about her subject and it's refreshing to see someone who is so immersed in religion. Her lectures are fairly interesting but keeping up with notetaking with how fast she speaks was sometimes hard. Would reccomend either takign this class with a friend/ making a class friend for incase you miss something in lecture. Discussion was lowkey annoying but my TA at least helped us understand the readings more. Exams test you on a studyguide where you're given all the possible questions, which was super helpful. just study/ understand the guides an you'll be fine. Overall, interesting class as someone who isn't into religion and taught by an adorable/great prof. An easy A in the end, but was stressed I might end with a B at some points in the sem. Don't take if you don't liek writing essays on exams.

class is easy in that theres no homework. you're given the exam questions to sort of plan and prewrite its just memorizing that. discussion is whatever just participate once every other class or so. exam grading, especially the essay portion, is pretty annoying. graders tend to look for specific parts so even if you are right in mentioning something you may get points off for not mentioning others. highly suggest going to office hours to check your prewritten answers, CJ McCrary will give you what you need to say and you're set from there.

This course is not difficult in and of itself, but can be a lot of work around exams. All notes for the class are required to be handwritten, and she talks a little fast so you may need to go back and rewrite or type your notes in order to have the information needed for exams. For exams, you need to study for at least 4 hours to get a decent grade, and the exams are also fully written by hand. Discussions are mandatory, in addition to discussion questions every week. The instructor is very sweet and genuine. Textbook readings can be long sometimes, but aren't super necessary to doing well in the course; you honestly don't have to do them at all.