A great GE and the content is interesting. I didn't like the fact that the lectures were super long and not engaging at times, but there were times when the lectures had a special component that was actually quite interesting: he brought in a Mariachi ensemble to perform live.

There was a writing assignment every week (about one page), and one presentation we made in our discussion section. The final was an in-class essay, but it was 3 hours to write only two pages, and the prompt was provided beforehand. Sounds like a lot of work, but the assignments were generally graded leniently, so as long as you followed instructions, you generally got full credit. My TA was lenient on grading, so I had it easy. Other TAs were reportedly more stringent, but not ridiculous (still could get an A fairly easily I think).