I took several classes with holdrege about 30 years ago. To this day, I find her material to be not only fascinating but life changing. Religious studies was my major so I can understand why others might not see the beauty in it but learn it anyway. The mastery she has in such a obscure area will make you a hit at cocktail parties down the road.

There were only three things graded and one was attendance and participation. She is very knowledgable on the topic, but is extremely unorganized and 90% of the readings are her own. Also, is very inconsiderate of her students time as she never finished lectures on time and schedules review sessions during finals that don't end until 10pm.

The material of this course is fine. My complaint is that the flow of the course and the way things are assigned makes me want to drop out. A 10 page midterm with the prompt posted a week before?? We have an assignment due in 3 days at midnight and the prompt is nowhere to be found. There's no upload link for hw due tomorrow. Some of us have lives!

Professor Holdrege was super caring and addressed a lot of the concerns I had throughout the quarter. The material is interesting and she is clearly very passionate about it. Lectures were sometimes slow, but very informative. Grade really depends on your TA. You have to put work into the online assignments and essays, so not the easiest GE.

She seems nice enough i guess but the course i took with her was a complete nightmare. Terrible lecturer and organizational skills, the flow of the class made no sense, no feedback or grades to go off of. This was a gigantic waste of time and i feel DUMBER for having taken a course with this clueless professor.

Cannot describe how much this professor infuriated me the entire quarter. I understand that we spent this quarter in a pandemic, but if that gives students no excuse, it gives her no excuse either. 10 page essay due in one week. During global outrage. 200+ pages of reading a week. Lectures always late. Pure disregard for our time and mental health.

Midterm/Final Essay (7 pages/10 pages). Two website assignments (4 pages each). She is honestly the most boring, convoluted professor I've had. Couldn't stand going to lecture but maybe it's interesting if you like religious studies. Good thing is that the class fills lots of requirements.

sweet lady. she encourages participation and is nice enough to hold review sessions for the class. She can talk all night long, but will give you all of the necessary information you need for the final essays. Though I am not interested by this topic, I enjoyed her enthusiasm and passion for the subject.

She talk slow and has a script for her lectures which are boring and longs. She cares about the students which is nice and offers a review session for both the final and the midterm which are both take home and gives you all the answers if you put in some work. The class is easy but boring. Also doenst post slides just makes you buy a reader for it

This course is a bit challenging, but if you work hard you can easily earn an A. Taking notes and attending each class is key to passing this class. There are two major assignments for this course: a 7-page midterm + 12-page final. Don't let the page length scare you--I found the final to be easy. Admittedly, the midterm was a bit more difficult

If I could describe this class in one word, it would be confusing. My TA was able to explain it clearer during section, but it's definitely a hard subject to tackle without prior knowledge of the Religion. No tests, just a midterm/ take home final essay, which was amazing. You sign-in at every lecture, so attendance is mandatory. Lots of reading.

Don't read--u read w/her in class, but will need Reader to write papers. Midterm was 7 pg take-home paper w/a prompt that pretty much spells it out for u; broken down into 2 essays. Easy. Final: take-home paper, 12 pgs, a little more wiggle room on prompt but in-class discussion makes it easy. Holdrege is really caring & nice. Attendance mandatory.