This is a commonly suggested requirement course; don't take it for that purpose. This course is fairly easy, but there are ones out there that knock off similar requirements. It's also better to use the easy Religion courses for other disciplines and requirements than this, which only gives the most easily accessible.

This was an easy class in my opinion. The textbook readings are essentially optional, and as long as you skim the other readings you'll be fine for discussion, where your TA explains it anyway. Your grade is just 2 midterms, a final, and discussion participation points, but Prof Warren gives you a study guide before every exam, so you know what's coming anyway. You do definitely have to attend every lecture, as she bases her tests around the information she gives in lecture. I'd recommend to complete a gened requirement.

I took this class to fulfill one of my disciplines thinking that it was going to be an easy A class, but this IS NOT. I got an A at the end and I thought this was not easy, so go to every lecture because those are not recorded and go to discussions/office hours because those helped me a lot. Prof Warren lectures for the whole 50 minutes so write everything you hear because it will help you on the exam; the review guide is literally the exam. If you're good with memorization and actually have some interest with religion, then I would recommend this class.

I took this class to fulfill one of my gen ed disciplines, but I ended up thoroughly enjoying it. The lectures are fast-paced, and she doesn't provide slides with the information, so be prepared to write fast. Even though the material was dry at times, Professor Warren's humor made up for it. This class can be very easy if you pay attention and utilize your TAs. If you take this class, try to enroll in Lauren's discussion—she is extremely helpful and understanding. Take this if you want a GPA boost!

Going into the class, I was expecting an easy religion to reward my humanities credit, however it entailed to be more than that. Lectures are not recorded and Professor Warren is a very thorough lecturer, thus while attendance is not "mandatory" it is in the sense that you want to have the proper information on the tests. The class is also fast-paced and is no-technology so be prepared to write quickly. My best piece of advice is make use of your discussion section and TA's office hours, they are especially helpful! Professor Warren gives a review sheet for possible exam topics, so you can prepare beforehand and make sure you have well developed answers by talking over with your TA. If Lauren is a TA, she was awesome and I really recommend getting into her section! With some added effort the class is fully manageable.

This class is fairly easy. Honestly, the readings are pretty useless, and your TA will most likely break it down for you. I made the mistake the first week of actually trying to read the Goldberg and Rayner text, but it was completely unnecessary. Go to lecture if you want to get all the details for exams. Of course you could just rip your answers from quizlet, but she'll actually give you the important details and you won't be scrambling around on the wikipedia page the night before the exam. Lectures are fairly boring and she talks quick, so every class is kind of a mad dash to write everything down, but this is really the only work you need to do for the class, besides prepare for the exam. For exams, she'll give out a sheet a week or two in advance with the IDs and Essay prompts that could possibly be on the exam, and it's your job to find the answers and memorize it. There won't be any surprises on the exams; it will just be a couple of IDs from the sheets and one of the essay questions. As long as you do your job and memorize the answers you should get an A. The only trick with the exams is to just put as much information as possible in each of your answers, especially the essays. They want explicit details, not an argumentative essay. #tCFfall22

This class is pretty easy in my opinion, and is definitely good to fulfill gened requirements, but honestly, it's not as interesting as I thought it would be. I like Professor Warren, and lectures are decent, but I guess I just wasn't super interested by the content matter. It's a pretty easy course-- All of the things on exams are given to you in a study guide ahead of time. If you do the study guide, you'll do fine. There are a good amount of readings, but I stopped doing any of them about halfway through the course and I got an A.

I LOVE PROFESSOR WARREN!! She is so sweet and loves the material so much. The class is super easy, but also pretty interesting (coming from a non-religious studies major). It can be a bit dry, but you do kind of need to take notes, so you stay alert. The readings sometimes are helpful for exams, but they're mainly for the discussion sections so just skim before those. She gives you a study guide before every exam. If its on the study guide, it will be on the exam, so just learn the study guides and make outlines for the essay questions so you know what to do when you sit for the tests. Its two midterms, a final, and your participation grade, but just talk every week in discussion and you're fine.

Lectures were pretty interesting and light-hearted but definitely need to take detailed notes so you can make use of discussion sections. You get study guides for the tests and tests are blue book with not very many questions. I struggled a bit with the format of the class tests, but if you can write a good essay then this class is for you. Overall pretty low-stress until tests come around, just know your key pieces of information from the study guides and you'll be golden

This class was a little different than I expected going in. I had the expectation that it was going to be more of a compare and contrast format of the religions and their practices, but it is actually a history class. Each lecture usually just focuses on one of the religions at a time, and there isn't a ton of discussion of how they interacted or changed each other. However, the material was still very interesting and, in my opinion, important to learn about!
That being said, I had a serious love-hate relationship with this class. Professor Warren was amazing - she was extremely friendly and absolutely hilarious! I loved having her as a lecturer. However, my main gripe with this class is that she did not allow us to type notes unless we had an accommodation. Although I could tell she always tried to speak slowly enough to allow us to get everything down, I just don't think that getting everything down in a class like this, where pretty much everything being said is important, is possible when hand-writing your notes. I always came out of lectures with a hurting hand and a feeling that I had missed a couple important things in my notes. However, this wasn't a world-ending issue, as Professor Warren gives out the test about 2 weeks in advance, and you just have to memorize everything beforehand, meaning that once we knew what was on the test, if we were missing something on it in our notes, we could ask a friend or search online. Taking the tests was never that difficult (although the 50 minute time limit was stressful but definitely do-able), but actually studying for them was one of the most painful experiences of my life. There is SO MUCH to memorize, and I never found a better way to study than to use Quizlet, which meant that I had to spend loads of time just transferring my notes from paper to the website before I could even start truly studying. The studying was also just extremely exhausting to me, and since the test is all free-response, there was this constant fear that I wasn't memorizing the right details or enough details. The entire experience of preparing for the tests was just extremely stressful to me. As for homework, there were readings for us to do, both for lecture and for our discussion sections, but I only ever did the readings for the discussion sections and I never had any issues with that. The discussion sections were really fun and useful (shoutout to Ame, the coolest TA ever), and they helped to make the whole class feel a little more manageable.
I got an A in this class, and I didn't struggle with comprehension, but I definitely struggled with the workload. Overall, I would only recommend it if you are good at memorizing things AND you are not a procrastinator, because procrastination will make the studying take absolutely forever and be unbearably painful. If procrastination isn't an issue for you, I'd say go for it! Professor Warren is really fun and the material was very interesting to learn about.