Hi. I was wondering if anyone who took Yiddish Culture can tell me how the course is like, such as the type of assignments, test/essay formats, grade composition, difficulty and so on. Thank you.
@oknintendo : The latter things are not what a quality course is about. Enroll in the course if it looks interesting, and just check the instructor out and content out during ADS. It may be interesting enough to ignore all that other stuff. To be worried about the workload in that level of detail this early on is a bit much.
Based upon this description:
http://atlas.college.emory.edu/schedules/index.php?select=GER&view=cse&ms=german&t=5179&sc=GER&cn=230&sn=1
For a freshman or sophomore, it may be a challenging course that provides a rich experience. Seems like she wants close/rigorous readings and real engagement. There may be no exams and just writing or a project instead. It seems like a class that could be good for someone.
You should also learn about what the Piedmont project is:
http://piedmont.emory.edu/syllabi.html
That instructor has taught another course in it and usually, for 200 levels teachers follow a similar format so here is a syllabus for that:
http://piedmont.emory.edu/documents/2011/Udel_2011.pdf
She is featured MANY times in this German Dept. newsletter I found and she appears to do things that really engage her students. You may have to read and think a lot, but it appears she tries to make it fun:
http://german.emory.edu/home/documents/pdfs/newsletters/newsletter2014.pdf
This is the best one can do since I doubt anyone on here has taken it. However, I think that instructor was one getting rave reviews and excitement by those taking her classes. I could be wrong, but I would definitely go check her out. Note that I am providing info to you assuming that you have not taking a class from her before. I don’t know.
She seems pretty interesting and is likely the one who led Yiddish’s presence at Emory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFOsCtgkq8I