He was cool and knows how to speak but garners the kind of cult-y following. The class is very convoluted and based on obscure social trends from the mid/late 1900s. The tests are ridiculous, have to study multiple prompts with like 10 questions each and its in-person essays that you have to prep for. He's like really unempathetic

Prof Siegel was entirely unhelpful when I had to miss a midterm due to a medical issue. Ended up with C due to this. His lectures were actually interesting however, so I'll give him that.

Greg is a professor I would highly encourage avoiding at all costs. He has a reputation for being extremely unpredictable and honestly, I find that the most terrifying aspect of him. With professors, I can gauge their attitude. With Greg, he is fake nice one day and insensitive and be at odds with the next. Never again!

i felt extremely on edge every time i went to class. he's a nice guy, but he didn't have much empathy for students. did not accept any assignments online, everything was turned in on paper and there was a reading response once a week. a student asked to have subtitles on films and he refused. very interesting class, but don't take it with siegel.

The course is broken up into 4 categories, section attendance and "participation", Quizzes, a midterm, and a final. The course wasn't necessarily difficult, but you were given a lot of readings that you need to complete every week. The problem is that there is no section syllabus and you just have to "hope" you are doing okay to "participate".

Very interesting class. Professor Siegel is very charismatic and made the long lectures interesting. Also just a great subject matter. Hard though! You gotta read a lot and you gotta remember it all!

FAMST 70 is a super interesting class and Siegel is a great professor! The only people that complain about the class are people that don't attend lecture or do the readings. He provides study guides for the midterm and final that contain the exact questions that are on the actual tests. Basically: do your work and the class is super manageable.

Greg's lectures are really interesting, but extremely dense. Lots of reading coupled with pop quizzes worth 15% of your grade that you'll fail if you don't read thoroughly. The format of the midterm and the final is 2 essay questions and a few short answers out of a deck. Must engage with reading and the TAs grade very harshly, don't expect an A.

Buckle up for Film 70. He assigns probably 80 pages a week that take a long time to read, not to mention understand. He gives pop quizzes that are on material he hasn't taught yet so essentially it's on your ability to read dense articles. The midterm was insane, even though he gave us the questions we needed to cram. Thinks he's a cool teacher. ha

heavy workload to be expected for a theory class, lots of readings and you need to know all of them for the midterm/final + popquizzes. he's kinda in his head about the class but he knows what hes talking about and he makes lecture interesting. go to office hours he loves to chat about non class culture stuff too. section attendance graded.

I'm not sure why Professor Siegel has iffy reviews, I really enjoyed this class! He does assign a lot of readings, which are the foundation of the exams and quizzes, but they are interesting and dissected many times both in lecture and section so that you can fully understand them. Recommend!

theres too much writing/reading for this not to fulfill the writing req but the assignments were so easy and the midterm/final are just the assignments expanded. you dont need to read much bc he goes over it in long lectures. basically just the grind but its not hard if you want it