The class was not very hard, but the material was very boring. The teacher was very passive and not super helpful, or easy to approach. The TA's made the class more interesting and useful. As my first art history class, I would not recommend this class. If a different teacher is teaching than I would recommend it.

Unless you literally must take this class for your major, stay far away. Christa Robbins is didactic in lecture-- she loves using big words and flowery language just to prove that she can. She knows her stuff, but she wants you to know that, and her arrogance is off-putting. She's strict about phones, talking, laptops and even slouching in lecture-- she will individually call out students in a way that is infantalizing and more distracting than the problematic behavior itself. Her hour-and-fifteen minute lectures were tough to sit through, but you can't skip class-- for every absence she subtracts a FULL THREE PERCENT from your final grade. Her paper requirements are needlessly pedantic and specific, and creativity or independent thinking is strongly discouraged by herself and the TAs. Way too much work to be in this class "just for fun," which is why I misguidedly signed up. Would not recommend-- you can learn about modern art elsewhere a lot less painfully.