CLUSTER 30A
Never-Ending Stories: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Myth
Description: (Formerly numbered General Education Clusters 30A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Course 30A is enforced requisite to 30B, which is enforced requisite to 30CW. Limited to first-year freshmen. Exploration in depth of particular mythological traditions, aspects of storytelling, role of myth in culture, society, and/or art, and contributions of various disciplines to study of myth. Letter grading.
Units: 6.0
Units: 6.0
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Fall 2018 - Good: - Material was engaging - Class was in De Neve Bad: - Lots of reading sometimes, however nothing unbearable. Hard readings will be clarified in class. - Quizzes. Honestly pretty easy if you were engaged and took surface level notes. Lowest quiz was dropped. - Variance in TA quality and grading harshness - Conflicts with other classes that only happen during a certain quarter Honestly enjoyed this class immensely. Helped me hone my research skills. Would recommend for those who will have a light reading load otherwise and is interested in the topic. Those who do badly in this class are the ones that don’t listen or don’t show up.
Fall 2018 - Good: - Material was engaging - Class was in De Neve Bad: - Lots of reading sometimes, however nothing unbearable. Hard readings will be clarified in class. - Quizzes. Honestly pretty easy if you were engaged and took surface level notes. Lowest quiz was dropped. - Variance in TA quality and grading harshness - Conflicts with other classes that only happen during a certain quarter Honestly enjoyed this class immensely. Helped me hone my research skills. Would recommend for those who will have a light reading load otherwise and is interested in the topic. Those who do badly in this class are the ones that don’t listen or don’t show up.
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NOT ENGLISH 193. selling books for GE CLUSTER 30A. - Beowulf ($12) - The Iliad Homer ($10) - The Mabinogi ($9) - The Odyssey ($12) - A Writer's Reference ($48) - Sacred Narrative ($20) - The Heroic Ideal ($20) all the books are in really good condition, most of them like new. please email at kellychoi94@gmail.com if interested!
NOT ENGLISH 193. selling books for GE CLUSTER 30A. - Beowulf ($12) - The Iliad Homer ($10) - The Mabinogi ($9) - The Odyssey ($12) - A Writer's Reference ($48) - Sacred Narrative ($20) - The Heroic Ideal ($20) all the books are in really good condition, most of them like new. please email at kellychoi94@gmail.com if interested!
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If you have a positive attitude and enjoy learning, this is a great class. It is a lot of reading, but I feel that I have now been appropriately exposed to wonderful texts in a very short amount of time. This class taught me how to read in college. The lectures are packed with info, so engage with the material and it will be more enjoyable. As to the quizzes, my recommendation is to take paper notes on all the assigned online reading, and use those to review, it's very helpful. The teaching team is made of great TAs, and you get the sense that they are all friends, which makes it a very enjoyable cluster. I highly recommend it if you are the kind of person who likes school.
If you have a positive attitude and enjoy learning, this is a great class. It is a lot of reading, but I feel that I have now been appropriately exposed to wonderful texts in a very short amount of time. This class taught me how to read in college. The lectures are packed with info, so engage with the material and it will be more enjoyable. As to the quizzes, my recommendation is to take paper notes on all the assigned online reading, and use those to review, it's very helpful. The teaching team is made of great TAs, and you get the sense that they are all friends, which makes it a very enjoyable cluster. I highly recommend it if you are the kind of person who likes school.
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selling books for GE CLUSTER 30A. - Beowulf ($12) - The Iliad Homer ($10) - The Mabinogi ($9) - The Odyssey ($12) - A Writer's Reference ($48) - Sacred Narrative ($20) - The Heroic Ideal ($20) all the books are in really good condition, most of them like new. please email at kellychoi94@gmail.com if interested!
selling books for GE CLUSTER 30A. - Beowulf ($12) - The Iliad Homer ($10) - The Mabinogi ($9) - The Odyssey ($12) - A Writer's Reference ($48) - Sacred Narrative ($20) - The Heroic Ideal ($20) all the books are in really good condition, most of them like new. please email at kellychoi94@gmail.com if interested!
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Fall 2018 - Professor Yokoyama is a very nice person. She likes to crack jokes during her lectures and dresses snazzy on holidays. As for her lectures, I wouldn't say they were the best but they also weren't the worst. She assigns a lot of reading for her lectures, but at least you can understand them and it isn't like a bunch of scholarly articles. I would say that the topics she lectures on in particular for the cluster are interesting themselves, but Professor Yokoyama as a lecturer isn't the best. Sometimes her voice is a little low, so make sure you tell her to turn her mike up or adjust its placement. Pay attention to all the lectures, especially hers because the quizzes have a lot of her lecture material on there. The class itself is manageable. There is a lot of reading assigned, but you can get away with just skimming some of it and reading parts of it. Go to lecture and discussion and pay attention there. Don't avoid reading, but remember that SparkNotes is an option when it comes to the actual books. There are four quizzes and the lowest score is dropped. The last quiz itself has a bonus point for if you went to movie night and paid attention. If it's a movie you've already seen then you can usually get away with not going to movie night and still getting the bonus point. No matter how many movie nights you attend, remember that you can only gain one point. There are two essays, and they are fair enough. Go to your TA's office hours and discussion to see what it is your TA wants to see in your writing (the actual professors that lecture don't ever look at your papers). Treat the rough draft like it is the final draft and make the proper revisions to get a better score on the final draft. But seriously, go to your TA's office hours or even email them with your questions because they're willing to help (thanks Jonathan!).
Fall 2018 - Professor Yokoyama is a very nice person. She likes to crack jokes during her lectures and dresses snazzy on holidays. As for her lectures, I wouldn't say they were the best but they also weren't the worst. She assigns a lot of reading for her lectures, but at least you can understand them and it isn't like a bunch of scholarly articles. I would say that the topics she lectures on in particular for the cluster are interesting themselves, but Professor Yokoyama as a lecturer isn't the best. Sometimes her voice is a little low, so make sure you tell her to turn her mike up or adjust its placement. Pay attention to all the lectures, especially hers because the quizzes have a lot of her lecture material on there. The class itself is manageable. There is a lot of reading assigned, but you can get away with just skimming some of it and reading parts of it. Go to lecture and discussion and pay attention there. Don't avoid reading, but remember that SparkNotes is an option when it comes to the actual books. There are four quizzes and the lowest score is dropped. The last quiz itself has a bonus point for if you went to movie night and paid attention. If it's a movie you've already seen then you can usually get away with not going to movie night and still getting the bonus point. No matter how many movie nights you attend, remember that you can only gain one point. There are two essays, and they are fair enough. Go to your TA's office hours and discussion to see what it is your TA wants to see in your writing (the actual professors that lecture don't ever look at your papers). Treat the rough draft like it is the final draft and make the proper revisions to get a better score on the final draft. But seriously, go to your TA's office hours or even email them with your questions because they're willing to help (thanks Jonathan!).
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