Reviews of professor Jessica Bissett Perea

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
WARNING: DROP THIS COURSE IMMEDIATELY! If you miss the drop date, you will feel like you are in hell for lots of homework and reading. You need to read more than 100 pages and analyze every single word every week.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The topics covered in lectures are interesting but the workload of this class is very heavy. You will be given about 5 readings (about 60 pages) per week. Annotations and written assignments are due weekly. Written assignments require extensive reference to and comparisons of readings. Don't take this class if you're looking for an "easy" GE.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I was only able to click three tags, but I want to also add the tag "tough grader". The essays that are due have to relate back to Native American studies topics/keywords, which are extremely difficult to relate YOUR own life story to. You don't even learn about Indigenous culture in this class, unfortunately, which is what I expected and wanted.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The worst class I've ever taken. Perea's lectures are irrelevant and all she does is advertise for her other classes. They are mandatory so you have to sit through 1.5 of stuff that has nothing to do with the class. Reading is 50ish pages a week or more. Assignments are overly complicated and are horribly explained. If you can take something else.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures are almost completely unnecessary when it comes to the assignments, but attendance is graded for every single lecture/discussion. More homework than I've ever had in any class. You can revise your essays for the final project, which I highly recommend because each point you lose is one percent off your grade.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
So I dont know if its because of the pandemic, but her version of an Asynchronous class is no actual lecture, just readings. I can read a book myself, why am I paying for this course?? The worst is that every assignment is a collaborative group assignment on google docs or slides. Youre responsible for your own work but have to respond to others

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS It says INTRO class so tell me why I am reading 92 pages WITH annotations for the FIRST assignment for this week (that's right there is a whole other assignment due for just this week) lectures are just people coming to speak expect to connect EVERYTHING back to the reading

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took NAS 001 fall quarter 2020, and it was a fairly straightforward class. There was a lot of reading, documentaries, and video lectures available to use for bi weekly essays and discussion boards. Both the TAs and the Professor were fairly accessible, and it felt like if you did the work and followed the rubric you would get an A in the class.