Looks at the Pacific as the primary location for literary and historical imagination since the Age of Exploration. Studies the crisscross, transpacific field of inscriptions ranging from Captain Cook to Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Jack London, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
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UnitsOptional
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeNone
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeLecture
If you attend lecture and take notes, it’s an easy A. attendance is mandatory but his lectures are amazing!
Loved Professor Huang! He was really funny and the class was interesting. Super easy. Graded on a take-home midterm, take-home final, and 5-7 page final paper. Easy A. He has some really interesting stories and insights.
His tests are fill-in-the-blank and a short essay. Very easy if you do the readings and attend lectures. He is very passionate about his subject and very funny. Very helpful during office hours. Two essays and he makes it very clear that they can be about anything related to the readings (no essay topics), so be ready to get creative. Great class.
Awesome teacher. Tests are incredibly easy if you do at least some sort of skimmingspark notes of the texts. Go to class because anything he talks about could be on the tests. He is hilarious anyways so you won't get bored. lectures were sometimes hard to follow but if you generally pay attention you will be fine. Wish I could have him again.
Great teacher! Very funny. Lectures were pretty interesting, played films and clips. Should have been more clear on what he wanted on the essays though. Doesn't give a prompt or anything. Midterm and final were fair as long as you read and go to class.
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