<p>Hi, does anyone know anything about either Cultures and Contexts: China or Multinational Britain? I looked up the professors for the courses on Ratemyprofessors but none of them were on there. The course syllabi were not available on the MAP website either. I am trying to decide which one to take next semester. Any recommendations? Thanks so much!</p>
<p>First off, read this:
[NYU</a> > CAS > MAP > Changes to the Morse Academic Plan](<a href=“http://map.cas.nyu.edu/object/map.anouncements.coursesfcc]NYU”>http://map.cas.nyu.edu/object/map.anouncements.coursesfcc)</p>
<p>C&C used to be our World Cultures, but it got changed to be less textual in nature and more conversational. It’s basically a Social Sciences class. If you can’t find anything to indicate which profs might be better, take China if you already know more about that and would consequentially have less work to do, or take the British one if you know that. Or explore your interests.</p>
<p>The sad thing to say is that the MAP courses like C&C and Texts and Ideas are really made or broken by the prof you have. I had an average prof for my ConWest (former version of Texts and Ideas), but I took Antiquities and the Renaissance with the section whose syllabus listed the most Bible books and antiquity texts I’d already read (Odyssey, Aeneid, Plato’s Symposium, Augustine’s Confessions etc.). Since I already knew all of them, I had less work to do than everyone else and it made up for my prof being a well-intentioned but hapless old geezer.</p>
<p>“The sad thing to say is that the MAP courses like C&C and Texts and Ideas are really made or broken by the prof you have.”</p>
<p>So true! That’s why I was hoping I could find something on either of the classes. Thanks for the response and the link though!</p>
<p>[NYU</a> College of Arts and Science Course Evaluation Guide](<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/cas/ceg/]NYU”>http://www.nyu.edu/cas/ceg/)</p>
<p>For future reference, this is better than ratemyprofessor.</p>
<p>Yeah. Internal, school-only ratings are always better than external. In Stern we have mandatory CFEs, Course Faculty Evaluations, and I base my choices off of those, ratemyprofessor, and direct feedback from friends who’ve taken the classes already.</p>