Course Response Rate
| Raters | Students |
|---|---|
| Responded | 13 |
| Invited | 19 |
| Response Ratio | 68% |
Course General Questions
| Count | Excellent | Very Good | Good | Fair | Unsatisfactory | Course Mean | FAS Mean | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluate the course overall. | 13 | 77% | 0% | 8% | 0% | 15% | 4.23 | 4.20 |
| Course materials (readings, audio-visual materials, textbooks, lab manuals, website, etc.) | 13 | 62% | 15% | 8% | 0% | 15% | 4.08 | 4.18 |
| Assignments (exams, essays, problem sets, language homework, etc.) | 12 | 58% | 17% | 0% | 17% | 8% | 4.00 | 4.04 |
| Feedback you received on work you produced in this course | 12 | 75% | 8% | 8% | 0% | 8% | 4.42 | 4.07 |
| Section component of the course | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 5.00 | 4.20 |
General Instructor Questions
| Count | Excellent | Very Good | Good | Fair | Unsatisfactory | Instructor Mean | FAS Mean | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluate your Instructor overall. | 13 | 77% | 0% | 0% | 8% | 15% | 4.15 | 4.49 |
| Gives effective lectures or presentations, if applicable | 11 | 64% | 9% | 0% | 9% | 18% | 3.91 | 4.39 |
| Is accessible outside of class (including after class, office hours, e-mail, etc.) | 13 | 77% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 15% | 4.31 | 4.43 |
| Generates enthusiasm for the subject matter | 13 | 77% | 8% | 0% | 8% | 8% | 4.38 | 4.57 |
| Facilitates discussion and encourages participation | 13 | 77% | 0% | 15% | 0% | 8% | 4.38 | 4.48 |
| Gives useful feedback on assignments | 9 | 89% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 11% | 4.56 | 4.44 |
| Returns assignments in a timely fashion | 10 | 70% | 20% | 10% | 0% | 0% | 4.60 | 4.43 |
On average, how many hours per week did you spend on coursework outside of class? Enter a whole number between 0 and 168.
Frequency chart and mean excludes students who answered 31 or more hours.
On average, how many hours per week did you spend on coursework outside of class? Enter a whole number between 0 and 168.
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Response Count | 12 |
| Response Ratio | 63% |
| Mean | 6.75 |
| Median | 5.50 |
| Mode | 3 |
| Standard Deviation | 4.79 |
How strongly would you recommend this course to your peers?
How strongly would you recommend this course to your peers?
| Options | Score | Count | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recommend with Enthusiasm | 5 | 10 | 77% |
| Likely to Recommend | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Recommend with Reservations | 3 | 1 | 8% |
| Unlikely to Recommend | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Definitely not Recommend | 1 | 2 | 15% |
| Statistics | Value |
|---|---|
| Response Ratio | 68% |
| Mean | 4.23 |
| Median | 5.00 |
| Standard Deviation | 1.54 |
What was/were your reason(s) for enrolling in this course? (Please check all that apply)
| Options | Count |
|---|---|
| Elective | 3 |
| Concentration or Department Requirement | 6 |
| Secondary Field or Language Citation Requirement | 4 |
| Undergraduate General Education Requirement | 0 |
| Expository Writing Requirement | 0 |
| Foreign Language Requirement | 0 |
| Pre-Med Requirement | 0 |
| Divisional Distribution Requirement | 1 |
| Quantitative Reasoning with Data Requirement | 0 |
Comments from students
What would you like to tell future students about this class? (Your response to this question may be published anonymously.)
| Comments |
|---|
| Take this course!!! Dr. Eatmon is the best professor I've had here!! She's truly so amazing and engaging and cares so much about her students and the material. Its a pretty serious reading load, and her late work policy is strict, but its so worth it. |
| (given the future syllabus is the same) take this class if you've never had any bit of knowledge about the postbellum era/hints about Jim Crow. However, if you have, this may disappoint you. Very surface level teachings, not for people who really want to dig deep into what was described on the course description |
| I recommend this class with enthusiasm! Professor Eatmon is incredibly organized but also empathetic to the student experience. She often started off class just checking in on us and ensuring our mental state was intact. She pushed us intellectually to reason with past injustices and how they connect to our current social and political climate. By far one of my favorite courses taken at Harvard so far! |
| Beware. This professor cares more about acquiring tenure than your well–being as a student. |
| This class will change the way how you view America, allowing you to understand our history in a more critical manner. If you are interested in social justice, this is the class to take. |
| I would not recommend anyone take this course, as the classroom environment is hostile. Specific students are targeted in the course and are harassed for how they speak and for the contributions they make. It’s also listed as a discussion course, but Professor Eatmon simply cancels discussion. This makes it uncomfortable to speak. The course provides no flexibility and Professor Eatmon makes it difficult for you to ask for an extension for assignments. She also tediously marks for attendance, including lateness. This matters more for your participation grade than what you actually include in the course. She would rather students not come at all than come late or need to leave intermediately for medical for medical or other reasons. The classroom is not an open space. Feedback was met with pushback. I think we all hoped for acceptance and a place where discussion was allowed to occur. This was not the environment for that. Further, there is no flexibility in terms of lateness and extensions. This creates a burden for students who experience health conditions and family issues throughout the semester. As the course stands, several students were denied needed extensions for coursework for sickness, death, and other issues in their lives and their families. Class time was also used to stream full documentaries in the course. Because the Professor would not sleep or would otherwise not want to lecture, we would sit through documentary films unrelated to course material. There is little discussion of Jim Crow within the course even though it is described as a course about Jim Crow. We spent more time on present–day issues than history and barely discussed Black history after Reconstruction. I would prefer to see a consistent policy on slurs in the classroom. Professor Eatmon full on said slurs against multiple groups in the class that were not Black. Black students couldn't say the n–word but she would say multiple slurs. Further, the documentaries and high–school–level videos we watched were not applicable. Professor Eatmon expects us to put her course above everything else in our lives, including our well–being and other coursework. Thus, she assigns hard to understand assignments and expects us to spend all our time on them. To take this course, you have to commit to always being right on the dot for class and agree with her in every class. |
| Definitely take this class! Out of all the classes I've taken at Harvard, this one definitely ranks towards the top. The content is extremely interesting, and you leave the class with a newfound appreciation for coalition building. Additionally, this class does a great job of using the struggles of other racial minorities/marginalized individuals to highlight why coalitions have been so powerful in American history. If you're looking for a great history/African American Studies class that examines prominent issues that have impacted Black people, then this is the class for you. Professor Eatmon is a terrific professor who genuinely cares about her students, and she's well–versed in the content. Must take class. |
| Take this class! Professor Eatmon is engaging, respectful, and a wonderful teacher. The things you will learn in this class are incredibly eye–opening. I almost wish there was a part 2 because we had to speed things up in the second half of the semester but I really enjoyed the course. |
| TAKE THIS COURSE! If you do the readings and engage in class, your mind will be opened dramatically to the untold history of racism in America and how it is perpetuated to date. Professor Eatmon is magnificent! |