Mandatory attendance for discussion and lecture (lecture attendance is through doing a padlet). You get two free skips before losing credit. Extra credit for participating in class.

Group project makes up most of the grade, you are paired randomly with people in your discussion. The grading on the short group assignments throughout the quarter are very inconsistent (lost points for having a "weak" ChatGPT generated response when professor lists in the instructions to use ChatGPT to generate a response???). Final group presentation in week 9/10 during discussion very easy. Each person in your group just has to spend ~2 minutes talking about some aspect of your chosen Asian language. CHOOSE A VERY WIDELY KNOWN ASIAN LANGUAGE!!! IT WILL MAKE DOING RESEARCH ON IT AND CREATING YOUR REPORTS MUCH EASIER!!! DON'T CHOOSE A NICHE LANGUAGE!!!

Homework is tedious and mainly just busy work. Will ask you to read textbook and/or watch videos that are 5-8 min long answering questions going along the way. Discussion posts about every other week, where you write a 1-2 paragraph response to something random the professor was thinking about.

Final exam is practically verbatim from the study guide. All 30 multiple choice questions were word for word from the practice quiz of 60 multiple choice questions they gave us. The free responses were just slightly reworded versions of the study guide free response examples.

Lecture pretty boring. Everyone in the class is pretty much doing something else on their computers instead of paying attention. Professor purposefully designs his slides so you can't understand them without his lecturing (mainly just examples and photos with very little to no text or context explaining them).

Overall good GE if you're looking for an easy A. Learned some cool things along the way (I can name and identify every country in East Asia now!)