Wastes an incredible amount of class time asking the students to define simple terms. Its funny how she stresses "thinking" even though the A essays were just regurgitation of her own subjective opinions stated in class. Her statements in lecture are often unsupported and pointless - just mention them in your essays and you will do fine.

Very hard and strict teacher. Gets the points across pretty well in class but content is hard to get by with. Has a lot of expectations from students but as long as you get what she's trying to get across, the class isn't too hard.

Swati is a crazy brilliant bad ass. She knows her stuff better than any professor that I have ever had. She is an amazing scholar, but she is super, super intense. I want to be just like her.

Prof. Swati's classes are usually really good. She's brilliant and a hardass, so you can't help but learn stuff. Mostly she wants people to think, so if you have a brain, and you care about the material, you can do really well. Don't get discouraged by her impossible tests. It always balnces.

She takes a while to get used to, and she can be hard to understand sometimes because of her accent; but once you catch on, everything is really easy. Also she is really helpful in office hours if you don't understand something.

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this class was very boring and teacher hard to understand, not recommended

Awesome professor, but much of what she says goes over your head for a while. Once you start to learn how she/architectural historians think, everything gets a lot easier. Her tests were the hardest I've ever taken anywhere, but she balances it in the end