Prof. Whitmire is a caring,engaging teacher who genuinely engages in discussion with students on tough topics. She listens without judgement and creates an environment where respectful, constructive communication happens organically. The course was African American Autobiography and the books Prof. Whitmire chose were hard hitting and engaging.

She is very smart and cares about the topic. The class was relatively easy, a few papers here and there and a final project. The work she selects makes it easy and interesting so you actually want to learn more. I highly recommend this professor!

This professor is very intelligent and passionate about her work. She talks a bit about the books she's wrote and the research she's done which I really loved to hear about. I learned a lot in this class! It isn't very hard either, just show up, write discussion posts, and participate and you're golden.

Professor Whitmire isn't the greatest professor by any metric, but she is far from a bad one. The class itself isn't stressful, mostly reading, and the exams aren't bad at all. I wish there was less time spent reading and more time learning deeper concepts though, most of this class is pretty surface-level. I would still recommend this class though

Prof Whitmire is very intelligent and extremely kind. She opens up lots of readings and opportunity for her students to engage and speak in class, which are mainly discussions rather than lectures. Super clear grading criteria and doesn't expect perfection, but there is quite a bit of reading although the books are interesting easy reads.

Prof. Whitmire had really good readings in the class that gave me insights into archives I had not encountered before. The lectures werent super organized but did give our class the opportunity to talk through our semester long research. The class was super easy and she is an easy grader. I enjoyed the class but wasnt super impressed with it.

Doesn't care about students, only her own research. Seems like teaching is a waste of her time and only does it so she can continue writing and going to Denmark. Dismissive and places blame on students. Half the time the class is teaching her about archives. The other half is spent reading verbatim from handouts.

Class is spent listening to her talk about her own research and watching videos. She prints out teacher's guides on how to teach and hands those out then reads them to the class. Has weekly "discussion prompts" for online discussion but offers no prompt or guide. Teaching is clearly a waste of time for her and she doesn't care about students.

Ethelene talked most of the class, and essentially if you ever voluntarily offer an answer, she'll like you. Class wasn't supposed to be curved, but I got a 90 (>92 for A) and she gave me the A anyway since I actually talked. Reading isn't bad, all of the sections are short. No need to take notes, I just used old discussion posts for the exam.

I've taken several AfroAm courses at UW and this was by far the worst. Ethelene is a library sciences professor, and she seems to know a lot about librarians, but nothing about African American history. She reads directly off of Wikipedia during lecture and her exams are so inconsistent. 100% don't recommend taking it if you actually want to learn.

I really learned a lot in her African American Women's studies class. Power lectures went by really fast because she incorporated video clips into lectures. If you follow the syllabus the class really does follow clear guidelines. She gave an essay midterm and final (which were very fair), and had you write two papers, and read one book. Enjoyed!

Prof. Whitmire is a really nice person, and does interesting research, but is not a very engaged professor. She sometimes gets information wrong.

Relys on Wikipedia during lecture; all lectures are posted online so you could easily skip, but her tests are very inconsistent so you never know. Boring class, she is an unengaging lecturer and there is very little information that you take away from the course.

Don't take the class if you expect to learn anything. Her tests change with the wind. If you want a half way decent ethnic studies this might be a class you can actually use, but if you one of those great engaging Wisconsin classes, this definately isn't it.