CLUSTER 60B
America in Sixties: Politics, Society, and Culture, 1954 to 1974
Description: (Formerly numbered General Education Clusters 60B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: course 60A. Limited to first-year freshmen. Interdisciplinary exploration of U.S. society from Brown versus Board of Education (1954) to resignation of Nixon. Topics include civil rights, Great Society, anti-Vietnam war movement, political and artistic countercultures, and changes in technology, law, and media. Letter grading.
Units: 6.0
Units: 6.0
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Winter 2019 - Professor Reiff is in charge of the history portion of the sixties cluster. As a former history head, I was excited about this portion of the cluster, but honestly, Reiff and team completely sucked the excitement out of me and made this cluster one of the most mundane things I have ever experienced. Reiff just reads off her slides (which consists of large timelines) and does not focus on historical moments that should be highlighted. Honestly, Vavreck (the Political Science Professor) does a better job at connecting sixties history than Reiff does. She isn't a mean person or anything but is just extremely boring. Her lectures were painfully boring and because of them, the cluster became very unbearable.
Winter 2019 - Professor Reiff is in charge of the history portion of the sixties cluster. As a former history head, I was excited about this portion of the cluster, but honestly, Reiff and team completely sucked the excitement out of me and made this cluster one of the most mundane things I have ever experienced. Reiff just reads off her slides (which consists of large timelines) and does not focus on historical moments that should be highlighted. Honestly, Vavreck (the Political Science Professor) does a better job at connecting sixties history than Reiff does. She isn't a mean person or anything but is just extremely boring. Her lectures were painfully boring and because of them, the cluster became very unbearable.
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Winter 2016 - I didn't love Schwartz, but I didn't hate her either. She just tries really hard to be funny and it just gets really awkward. Her slides are also super unhelpful when you go back to study because its usually just a picture with the name of a song and the band that performed it. She also moves quickly so you can't always get all the info for a particular slide, so when you go back to study you're kinda screwed. The winter quarter is mostly her show because basically every other lecture is about a musical genre. She also writes the prompts for an essay thats 25% of your grade, and the prompts are super convoluted and confusing. She is also terrible at explaining musical sounds because she assumes we can all pick up on the nuances in the differences in sounds from an amplifier. The lectures she gave never lived up to my expectation of the topic. Some people liked her style, but it wasn't really my thing.
Winter 2016 - I didn't love Schwartz, but I didn't hate her either. She just tries really hard to be funny and it just gets really awkward. Her slides are also super unhelpful when you go back to study because its usually just a picture with the name of a song and the band that performed it. She also moves quickly so you can't always get all the info for a particular slide, so when you go back to study you're kinda screwed. The winter quarter is mostly her show because basically every other lecture is about a musical genre. She also writes the prompts for an essay thats 25% of your grade, and the prompts are super convoluted and confusing. She is also terrible at explaining musical sounds because she assumes we can all pick up on the nuances in the differences in sounds from an amplifier. The lectures she gave never lived up to my expectation of the topic. Some people liked her style, but it wasn't really my thing.
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Winter 2019 - Professor Vavreck is probably the best lecturer for this cluster. Her lectures and slides are very detailed and easy-to-follow, and she just seems like a very nice person. The cluster was somewhat of a positive experience because of Vavreck's lectures. Even though Vavreck is great, there is one thing about her lectures that bother me. She often goes on tangents to slam Trump, which is funny at times but is mostly annoying. Other than that, Vavreck is good. As for the cluster, I don't think Vavreck got as much say as Decker and Fink did. Her lecture material was not focused on very much, as the cluster did not focus on pol sci as much as it should have.
Winter 2019 - Professor Vavreck is probably the best lecturer for this cluster. Her lectures and slides are very detailed and easy-to-follow, and she just seems like a very nice person. The cluster was somewhat of a positive experience because of Vavreck's lectures. Even though Vavreck is great, there is one thing about her lectures that bother me. She often goes on tangents to slam Trump, which is funny at times but is mostly annoying. Other than that, Vavreck is good. As for the cluster, I don't think Vavreck got as much say as Decker and Fink did. Her lecture material was not focused on very much, as the cluster did not focus on pol sci as much as it should have.
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