Class was super interesting!! Only had a few assignments and a midterm + final which were the same structure on different artworks. You do have to memorize info on a set of selected artworks but making a simple google doc with the required info and reviewing it is enough to pass. Loved him!
Very much a class designed solely for art history students with a professor who is a giant in this particular field. I'll never take another art history class again, but overall the course was interesting enough. The memorization was terrible.
2 small projects/papers and 2 exams. Exams require you to memorize some artwork, and analyze them. The projects/papers were both really easy. The lectures are mostly boring, but occasionally interesting. I took the class P/NP, but I should have taken it for a grade, because I got an A- without much effort and missing 5 classes.
I really liked Prof Ogbechie's class! He was very passionate about the course material and I learned a lot.
Lectures are extremely unorganized and he missed several classes in the quarter. It was very unclear what we would be tested on which made it difficult to study.
Great professor and lecturer. I thought his class was interesting, informative, and the content was relevant and important. Unfortunately, I had a few very uncomfortable (mandatory) office hours sessions with him, and I felt he crossed the mandatory teacher-student boundary in multiple ways. Totally unfortunate, I loved the class up until then.
Attendance is 10% of the grade. Lecture is pretty boring, I feel like he has a lot of important things to say but he doesn't organize it well and it's hard to follow. Readings aren't tested on. Final was a 6 page paper on stuff we didn't really talk about I have no idea how I wrote that thing and passed the class
Lecture slides go from being just a single picture to having whole paragraphs. Makes you go to the useless lectures by taking random attendance. The course itself BARELY goes into depth because it attempts to cover 3(!) distinct cultures' art in 10 weeks. Final paper was the most vague and frustrating paper promt I have ever seen. Sometimes funny.
Attendance was mandatory. There were no opportunities to participate so lectures were dull. Grading criteria was unclear. The course was very scattershot, and there was no overarching theme to it, which made it hard to stay engaged. However I passed easily despite never having taken an art history class before.
Gives very unclear instructions. Makes hypothetical questions that are unclear. Never sure what to take notes on in class. moves through slides very quick.
I would not recommend this class. His lectures are monotonous and tedious, and he almost never interacts with the class. As such, the lectures were not engaging at all. The mid-term didn't have enough questions to be fair; i.e., there was a 30 point mid-term on hundreds of pages, so not knowing one thing is enough to skewer you. Definitely avoid.
Your grade is based on the midterm and final both which are 7+ page essays. If you mess up its hard getting back up! take at your own risk
arthist 185AA. An incredibly easy class, talked mostly about african art about african women. it was very inspiring and i loved the topic. we ONLY had to do 2 page essays (journal and analysis)every week, that is all, no final or midterm! he is a very nice and understanding professor, definitely take this class! only used one book, short readings.
I don't know why people are saying his class is hard. The midterm was easy as long as you did as he asked you studying wise. I was somewhat worried about my grade since the final was a paper, but he ended up giving me an A. Not the absolute BEST professor ever, but certainly not bad!!
I took this class Winter 2011 and his thick accent made lecture hard to follow. I'm also not surprised to read of him changing his mind on midterm/final formats in his other classes - he pulled a fast one on us for the midterm and people were not happy. Subject material was interesting, though. Rely on your TA to learn and pass this class.
Before attending this class I read all the comments on here. I was worried, because people did not like this professor. His class is not easy, but he is truly a good teacher. He knows the information that he teaches, he is insightful,and is passionate about the subject. Take it if you prefer a good teacher over an easy class. I recommend him.
Ogbechie has so much to say, but not enough organization skills and time to get his point across. He cannot handle a large class with no sections, therefore the students cannot either. He is also very rude when students ask him questions he can easily give the answer to. His worst problem is making the class feel like children, and inferior
He puts the history in art history, but not so much that 'art' aspect. He puts images on the website, but you don't really need to know them for the tests. They're usually essays where you have to compare a couple images. If you come in late, you have to find a seat. He wont let you sit in the back on the stairs.
Where, where to begin. If you are prepared to sit through an hour and fifteen minutes in a dark room staring at virtually invisible person with an accent so thick all it sounds like he is doing is talking really loud and placing the emphasis on the wrong syllables, then this class if for YOU!
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Love him. He can be the scariest, most intense person ever, but he is super intelligent.
I didn't find him difficult to understand at all; he can be a scary guy, but I've taken two classes with him and he's given me A's in both. He's not the most organized of professors, he kind of goes off the cuff on most lectures I think, but he's one of the most intelligent teachers I've had.
Accent takes a few lectures to get used to but after that it's not too bad. He makes jokes in lecture that are pretty funny and he explains stuff well. Most of the stuff you need to know you learn during discussion though so make sure you go to those.
He's Nigerian so sometimes its hard to understand him. The class is interesting, but I tended to zone a lot. It sort of hard to follow where he's going with his points sometimes
