explorance Blue - Feedback for AFRAMER 197 - David Williams <br> (click titles in the table of contents below to display a report section)

Course Response Rate

Table for Course Response Rate-2025 Fall Harvard FAS Course Evaluation.
Raters	Students
Responded	28
Invited	36
Response Ratio	78%

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Course Feedback for AFRAMER 197

Graphs illustrating the information in the accessible table that immediately follows it.

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Course General Questions

	Count	Excellent	Very Good	Good	Fair	Unsatisfactory	Course Mean	FAS Mean
Evaluate the course overall.	16	44%	25%	25%	6%	0%	4.06	4.21
Course materials (readings, audio-visual materials, textbooks, lab manuals, website, etc.)	16	38%	31%	25%	6%	0%	4.00	4.21
Assignments (exams, essays, problem sets, language homework, etc.)	16	19%	38%	31%	6%	6%	3.56	4.07
Feedback you received on work you produced in this course	16	13%	19%	38%	19%	13%	3.00	4.06
Section component of the course	16	50%	13%	19%	13%	6%	3.88	4.24

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Instructor Feedback for David Williams

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General Instructor Questions

	Count	Excellent	Very Good	Good	Fair	Unsatisfactory	Instructor Mean	FAS Mean
Evaluate your Instructor overall.	14	57%	21%	21%	0%	0%	4.36	4.50
Gives effective lectures or presentations, if applicable	14	36%	14%	29%	14%	7%	3.57	4.41
Is accessible outside of class (including after class, office hours, e-mail, etc.)	9	22%	22%	44%	11%	0%	3.56	4.47
Generates enthusiasm for the subject matter	14	57%	29%	14%	0%	0%	4.43	4.60
Facilitates discussion and encourages participation	14	43%	7%	29%	21%	0%	3.71	4.56
Gives useful feedback on assignments	4	25%	0%	75%	0%	0%	3.50	4.46
Returns assignments in a timely fashion	4	0%	0%	75%	25%	0%	2.75	4.43

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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.

Table for [QTitle]-On average, how many hours per week did you spend on coursework outside of class? Enter a whole number between 0 and 168. -Statistics.
Statistics	Value
Response Count	15
Response Ratio	42%
Mean	4.07
Median	4.00
Mode	2, 4, 6
Standard Deviation	2.79

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How strongly would you recommend this course to your peers?

Table for [QTitle]- How strongly would you recommend this course to your peers? .
Options	Score	Count	Percentage
Recommend with Enthusiasm	5	9	56%
Likely to Recommend	4	4	25%
Recommend with Reservations	3	1	6%
Unlikely to Recommend	2	1	6%
Definitely not Recommend	1	1	6%

Table for [QTitle]- How strongly would you recommend this course to your peers? -Statistics.
Statistics	Value
Response Ratio	44%
Mean	4.19
Median	5.00
Standard Deviation	1.22

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What was/were your reason(s) for enrolling in this course? (Please check all that apply)

Table for [QTitle].
Options	Count
Elective	8
Concentration or Department Requirement	3
Secondary Field or Language Citation Requirement	3
Undergraduate General Education Requirement	0
Expository Writing Requirement	0
Foreign Language Requirement	0
Pre-Med Requirement	0
Divisional Distribution Requirement	3
Quantitative Reasoning with Data Requirement	0

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In this course, most students listen attentively with an open mind and a willingness to change their point of view as they learn more about the topic.

Table for [QTitle]-In this course, most students listen attentively with an open mind and a willingness to change their point of view as they learn more about the topic..
Options	Score	Count	Percentage
Strongly Agree	5	7	44%
Agree	4	8	50%
Neither Agree nor Disagree	3	1	6%
Disagree	2	0	0%
Strongly Disagree	1	0	0%

Table for [QTitle]-In this course, most students listen attentively with an open mind and a willingness to change their point of view as they learn more about the topic.-Statistics.
Statistics	Value
Response Ratio	44%
Mean	4.38
Median	4.00
Standard Deviation	0.62

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In this course (including sections), I feel comfortable expressing my views on controversial topics.

Table for [QTitle]-In this course (including sections), I feel comfortable expressing my views on controversial topics..
Options	Score	Count	Percentage
Strongly Agree	5	6	38%
Agree	4	6	38%
Neither Agree nor Disagree	3	2	13%
Disagree	2	2	13%
Strongly Disagree	1	0	0%

Table for [QTitle]-In this course (including sections), I feel comfortable expressing my views on controversial topics.-Statistics.
Statistics	Value
Response Ratio	44%
Mean	4.00
Median	4.00
Standard Deviation	1.03

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Comments from students

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What would you like to tell future students about this class? (Your response to this question may be published anonymously.)

Table for [QTitle].

Comment

although i love the professor and the content he teaches, the organization of assignments and section was terrible . the TF was switched 4 weeks into the semester. the class is already graded on such little things so the weight of the few assignments are more heavy. however, one wasn't even counted in the gradebook (we didn't do it) and the book reviews that we had to do were all just very disorganized. Almost no information was said about it until a few days before the first due date and all the feedback was given extremely late which pushed back all the other ones. Email communication was also poor. Overall, the stress of the grading made the experience of the class extremely bad.

Very interesting class. Professor Williams has great passion, and the content is super important to learn.

This is one of my favorite classes I've taken at Harvard so far. It is great for people with all backgrounds in systemic racism and health. I know some students who came in with a stronger background found some of the content very basic, but I think learning it from Dr. Williams, one of the frontier researchers of this field, is a different experience. He is clearly very passionate about his work and wants us to share this passion, making lectures occasionally interactive and meeting with students outside of class. The book reviews are very manageable and Fatima is a pretty fair TF who is willing to meet and talk about the paper. She also does a great job with section, they were super engaging and informative. I would consider this class a GEM, as it was manageable, not too much time commitment, and the assignments actually felt meaningful. The TF wants you to do well, and I looked forward to it every week.

Take this course! and genuinely try to engage with the material and be honest with your work in this class.

I would be weary of taking this class. The content itself is extremely enlightening but the data to back it up is very outdated (≈ 20 years old). Professor Williams is a passionate lecturer and very well versed in the topic. The TF however was very unpleasant. I feel like the TF did a poor job when developing section activities that made sense in the context of what we were learning. She would sometimes assign additional readings outside the syllabus the day before class and quizzes were rarely ever posted on time. She also, in my opinion, failed to create a comfortable environment for us to debrief serious topics. Section felt more like an interrogation than a discussion and she treated us like children with her no device policy and “cold calls”. I also never received feedback on my book reviews within a reasonable time frame (ie. the day before the next book review was due) and she refused to follow a rubric when grading them (“anti–rubric,” she says) so she would just think of a number that you deserved with no system to back it up. Section and book reviews made this class unpleasant, but the topic itself is interesting.

TAKE THIS CLASS!!! This class has changed me for the better. Not only did I learn so much about the intersectionality of race and health in America, but I also walked away with meaningful tactics that can be used to combat the disparities we see in health. I haven't been more excited to learn than when I was taking this course. As a burnt out high–achiever in high school, I often felt indifferent to learning coming into Harvard. This course changed my college experience it helped me gain my spark back. I look at the unknown, especially and what can be changed and discovered in the public sector, in awe jumping at any opportunity to learn how I can make a difference.

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