Such a fun class! He only assigned 1 short reading a week which made it easy to really engage in the material because its not overwhelming. bc of this more students actually read and participated in class so we had awesome discussions. The papers are short too--3.5ish pages. Midterm is just an outline for the final which is a 2.5ish page final.

First day of Summer session, and he takes away some girl's iPad that she was using to take notes...? What is this, high school? Half of the introductory 'lecture' was spent talking about himself, also seems pretty condescending.

Prof. Amar is very knowledgeable and passionate about the subject. But his lectures are kinda unorganized and the slides are not useful. I hope he could summarize each concept better. And I hope there are better study guides for the exams. 3 papers, two exams, and participation.

Prof Amar is very knowledgeable and also brings intersectionality, race issues etc. In my opinion he is very easy to talk to however he calls on people during class so attendance is mandatory and there are a lot of readings. There are 3 short papers, 1 midterm and 1 final which are pretty easy. Interesting material, I recommand this class.

Have zero assistance on who want to crush this class even the class is not full. took him forever reply email back, bad communication with student

3 papers- they look scary but are very easy if you read. Reading does consume a lot of time, and I mean like 40-60 pages before each class. He doesn't take attendance but will randomly give pop quizzes or call on you randomly regarding readings. He is really passionate & very nice. If you are good about reading, easy A. Midterm was 25?s

Get ready to read on average 100 pages per lecture. Although attendance is not mandatory, this guy randomly calls upon students to answer his questions. If you are not there when he called your name, you know what will happen. For his lectures, there is no lecture, he simply asks students to explain lists of concepts. After that, class is over.

Who else think there are lots of work in this class? I need to take care of my other class dude.

The three papers are really intimidating at first, but the TA's were really helpful. Amar was a cool guy but his lectures often seemed to lack a point and he'd ramble on about something unrelated for 20 minutes. Doesn't take attendance but sometimes was useful for understanding the HUNDREDS of pages of text. Midterm and Final were easy MC.

Amar is honestly an amazing professor! I feel so engaged during his lectures and you actually learn a lot since he is passionate about the concepts. There is so much reading though, its ridiculous! But it's college, so not much we can do there. Your final grade consists of 3 papers, midterm, final, and section attendance.

A stressful nightmare. Amar is a good lecturer, very well educated on the subject matter. However his class requirements extremely difficult to maintain well. Three 1500 word essays, midterm, final, required attendance as he calls on students randomly to explain concepts. The reading is what makes it tough. It can be close to 100 pages per lecture.

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY READINGS!!!! Okay to be fair you'll end up learning a lot and most likely enjoy some parts of the material (because theres so much material to read). He's a good professor and his lectures are informative. But he's not very approachable/friendly, so take your chances.