Professor
Margaret Peters
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Spring 2020 - I took Global Studies 100A (now called 102) with Prof Peters online due to COVID-19. Despite the abrupt switch to virtual learning, Prof Peters did a great job at making the lectures engaging and relevant to our experiences with the ongoing pandemic. The majority of our grade came from 4 papers on broad topics covered in class. The prompts asked you to present a solution/opinion on relevant topics (trade war with China, immigration policies, etc). Grading for the papers by the TA's was very fair. Overall I really enjoyed this class and Prof Peters! Take this class!!
Spring 2020 - I took Global Studies 100A (now called 102) with Prof Peters online due to COVID-19. Despite the abrupt switch to virtual learning, Prof Peters did a great job at making the lectures engaging and relevant to our experiences with the ongoing pandemic. The majority of our grade came from 4 papers on broad topics covered in class. The prompts asked you to present a solution/opinion on relevant topics (trade war with China, immigration policies, etc). Grading for the papers by the TA's was very fair. Overall I really enjoyed this class and Prof Peters! Take this class!!
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Spring 2021 - I definitely recommend this class. No textbook required, as Professor Peters provides all of them for free. Professor Peters is very kind, helpful, and empathetic towards her students. Her class is flexible, especially for the due dates of the weekly reading assignments (Quizzes on CCLE). Her recorded lectures aren't very long and are a great supplement that summarizes the main points of the weekly readings. However, attending the live lectures featuring guest speakers is mandatory for attendance grade, which IIRC there was only 6 throughout the quarter. If you cannot make it to the live lectures, you can submit a one-page summary of what you learned and might get some credit. To be clear, I am not one of those "laid back" students, so I did do all of the readings and felt that the exam questions were fair. To be more precise, I found the Final Exam to be a bit more complicated than the Midterm as the essay questions required deeper thinking. The essay exam requires you to write 4 essays in total, but each essay has a one-page limit and done in single-space, with a reference page at the end. The weekly reading assignments (Quizzes) was not too hard, but it would be if you didn't do the readings at all. Typically, the quizzes have 3-5 questions, and you have an hour to submit. Be sure to do some of the readings before the discussion sections, as you are expected to answer questions as a group. Your TA will be the ones who grades everything. Thank you, Professor Peters, for the great quarter!!
Spring 2021 - I definitely recommend this class. No textbook required, as Professor Peters provides all of them for free. Professor Peters is very kind, helpful, and empathetic towards her students. Her class is flexible, especially for the due dates of the weekly reading assignments (Quizzes on CCLE). Her recorded lectures aren't very long and are a great supplement that summarizes the main points of the weekly readings. However, attending the live lectures featuring guest speakers is mandatory for attendance grade, which IIRC there was only 6 throughout the quarter. If you cannot make it to the live lectures, you can submit a one-page summary of what you learned and might get some credit. To be clear, I am not one of those "laid back" students, so I did do all of the readings and felt that the exam questions were fair. To be more precise, I found the Final Exam to be a bit more complicated than the Midterm as the essay questions required deeper thinking. The essay exam requires you to write 4 essays in total, but each essay has a one-page limit and done in single-space, with a reference page at the end. The weekly reading assignments (Quizzes) was not too hard, but it would be if you didn't do the readings at all. Typically, the quizzes have 3-5 questions, and you have an hour to submit. Be sure to do some of the readings before the discussion sections, as you are expected to answer questions as a group. Your TA will be the ones who grades everything. Thank you, Professor Peters, for the great quarter!!
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