Professor Welty’s lectures are very engaging and generally include a few film clips in betweeen so that you won’t need to take notes all the time. No one did tok terrible on midterm and final, as the questions are not so hard as long as you don’t answer them without any studying. However, there are 3 things to note:

1. Welty NEVER post her lecture slides online, so if you want to ditch a lecture, you should have a very good reason to conpensate.

2. For those of you with an international background, especially those who come to US for college, DO NOT mistake this class as an easy GE. According to one of my international friends who is also in the class, the readings are going to be challenging and time-consuming, and if you are not serious enough studying for the tests, you will get 60s or even fail while watching the rest of the class getting high 80s, 90s, or even 100.

3. Speaking of the readings, DO NOT read every word. Skimming the intro and conclusion paragraph and then read the first sentence are generally enough for you to understand the big ideas.

I hope the information above can help you decide whether to take the class as a GE and how to do well in it.

I highly enjoyed the topics we covered in this class. Professor Welty is an engaging lecturer, and well versed in issues that pertained to the Asian American community in the past and now. I am selling The New Chinese America for $23, it is in perfect condition. Email me at velmathanh97@gmail.com if interested.