<p>how difficult of a class is hild 7a race and ethnicity in the united states with Widener?</p>
<p>I took HILD 7A last fall. It isn’t a very difficult class if you’re a decent essay writer, as the material itself is easily digestible. My biggest complaint is the textbook that we used was purely primary documents, making it boring and hard to read sometimes. Apparently, it’s a new textbook this year so it might not be too bad. You can afford to skip lectures as he goes on tangents half of the class, but it’s interesting stuff.</p>
<p>Oh HILD 7a…I took it as a freshman my first quarter here. I found it a bit challenging. It is not your conventional class. Lecture is extremely interesting, too bad none of it will be on the midterm/ finals. You have 3 midterms (one a few days before finals). We had an optional final. Sadly the optional final was much different than the midterms. Some of the questions were outrageously easy and others were so hard and asked questions about Widener himself. The midterms are essay- short answered based. The essays reminded me of an AP test FRQ (didn’t we all love those). The book was boring in my opinion. Right before finals he assigned us to read a book he and other members of the UCSD history department published chronically the events prior and after the “Compton Cookout.” While this was the most interesting book it had no relevance to lecture or to any of the midterms of the final. Some times he just wouldn’t show up to class at all (not a new thing for him) and we watched movies on Native Americans when the class dealt solely with African Americans. No computers or electronics are allowed in lecture or discussions. Discussion is like 20-25% of your final grade which is nice (if you like participating). On one occasion we watched a movie for the entire 50min of discussion. This class is definitely an interesting and unique one to say the least. It wasn’t really my cup of tea. It put a bad taste in my mouth about the history dept (after taking other history classes I’ve realized they aren’t all this crazy). However, I came home for Thanksgiving with many a stories from this class. Good luck!</p>