EDLF 5000

Wood is an incredibly friendly professor, but her lectures can get a little tedious sometimes. The information was interesting but the two and a half hour section was almost impossible to sit through.

It's sometimes a lot of work for what's supposed to be a GPA booster class, but Wood grades incredibly generously as long as you put a lot of analysis into your papers and indicate you truly care about what you're writing about.

Assignments:
-1-2 page reading critiques every week; extremely easy, about what the assigned reading was for the week (you can skim it and BS the critique fairly easily); the articles were pretty interesting most of the time

-A genealogy report 5-6 pages about your ancestry; interesting, but hard if you don't have anyone in your family keeping records of this because she requires you to go back to when your family first immigrated to the US

-A music social justice project, ~6 pages. This is a group project on an artist who sings about social justice or equality or something of the sort. Group projects are always a pain, but it ends up being 5-6 people per group so about ~1 page per person, and you have to present a powerpoint with the songs you talked about in the paper

-Community Engagement Project; this requires 12 hours of community service somewhere in Charlottesville. You can sign up through a program they offer through the course or do it with Madison House, she doesn't really care. But you have to write a 4+ page narrative and analysis on your community service

-Final Project; pretty much anything you want. No guidelines given, just usually a paper about a multicultural topic of your choice