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Wandel is an amazing professor, she teaches her class through storytelling and it is so memorizing. Everything is graded by your TA, so you will not know your grade until the end. Be sure to go to the lecture to get all of the material you need, and do the work for discussion as it always comes up on the exams.Rate My Professors ↗
Professor Wandel is the worst professor ever. Her tests cover anything from lectures yet the way she goes about lecture is awful. She is insanely rude to students taking her class and flames them for not speaking up to answer questions. She goes on unnecessary rants about random topics that have no correlation to the slides. DONT TAKE HER CLASSES!Rate My Professors ↗
Prof. Wandel was an amazing professor in all aspects; homework assignments were light, lectures were interesting, and promoted a positive environment. Take advantage of the opportunities she gives to redo assignments, as you can do this as much as you want until full credit. Readings are heavy and long, but are always gone over in discussion.Rate My Professors ↗
Her first assignment, a syllabus summary, was brutal. However, she allows you do redo assignments an unlimited number of times to get full credit. Definitely take advantage of this. The class overall was very interesting, and the discussions prepare you for the exams, which I felt was easy. My TA was a jerk, who graded way too hard.Rate My Professors ↗
I really enjoyed Prof Wandel and her class. It was pretty easy to get an A in the class since the Prof/TA determined your grade "holistically". Basically if you put effort into the discussion/weekly writings you'll be fine. Yes, there's a ton of reading but you just need to know the texts' big ideas. I generally didn't read the entire texts.
Professor Wandel is very passionate about the subject, but learns everyone's name quickly. SO much reading in this class, sometimes a novel each week. Overall was an easy class and interesting. She loves her history though, got to give it to her.Rate My Professors ↗
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