He is constantly cracking jokes which keeps class interesting and he obviously cares about the material and his students. The class integrates novels, poems, and film to create a well rounded experience. If you do the readings and show up to class the exams are easy.

Professor Huang is a great and very funny lecturer! Took this as a GE and was dreading it because I hate American history, but it was actually really interesting because of the topics he chose. Exams were super easy if you go to lecture. No slides posted so make sure to take notes.

unclear grading criteria like the rest of the reviews. if you're not interested in the topics then you won't enjoy the class. lectures aren't mandatory but you should go just for the exams. overall, don't take if you don't need to.

If you don't go to lectures you won't pass. Lots of readings, but you can get through with only knowing the gist of things. Exams are fill in the blanks (terrible) and a short essay answer. Lectures are really hard to follow (his banter didn't help). Paper guidelines were unclear, you basically had to create the prompt yourself. Avoid!

the class was graded by participation, mini research paper, 4 film reviews, pop quizzes, and a final paper. he grades based off of letters and not numbers (you'll receive an A instead of 90) and he never inserts grades into canvas so you wont know your grade until it is in gold. never answers emails and does pop quizzed based on readings.I did p/np

Lectures were so so messy and all over the place. If there weren't TA sections, I would have failed this class. Would drift off topic during lectures as well.