AMES-155CNS
THE CULTURAL COLD WAR
Offered Fall 2026
Term
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that the readings, films, or examples carry real weight. Best for students who will engage with the materials instead of skimming everything. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.
DepartmentAMES
Terms offeredFall
Typical enrollment16–16
Semesters of data1
3.7
Hrs / week
12
Responses
16
Enrollment
75%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
3.9
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.3
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.3
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
3.0
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysislow
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 44 comments across 1 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that the readings, films, or examples carry real weight. Best for students who will engage with the materials instead of skimming everything. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.
Student Reports
How hard is the A?
A is doable but not automatic
The signal here is more do-the-work-and-you-should-be-fine than easy-A chatter. Students do not describe the A as automatic, but the evidence also does not paint grading as punishing.
Homework Load
Moderate homework load
Homework load looks moderate. The recurring signal is steady weekly work, but not a course that turns every assignment into a grind.
Lecture Load
Lighter lecture burden
Student comments describe this as more discussion-, seminar-, or workshop-driven than lecture-dependent. The lecture burden itself does not sound like the main source of friction.
Strengths
• Readings, films, or outside materials come up repeatedly as a real strength rather than filler.
• Discussion is a clear strength; students repeatedly describe the class conversation as engaging and useful.
• Students repeatedly say the course teaches something concrete, whether that is content mastery, research skill, or a strong foundation.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who will engage with the materials instead of skimming everything.
Watch out for
• Most of the signal comes from a limited sample, so be careful about over-generalizing.
• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.
Student Responses
Reading articles in a timely fashion, analyzing sources on a higher level, thinking critically about ideas of the Cold War
Fall 2025 · Singh, Preeti
I learned how to engage with primary sources, close read and analyze, and make connections between course material and cultural contexts.
Fall 2025 · Singh, Preeti
I learned how to read films, posters, and other cultural texts as political documents that reflect power, ideology, and Cold War agendas rather than just entertainment. I learned to connect specific case studies from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East to larger ideas like decolonization, non alignment, soft power, and cultural diplomacy. I learned how to build an argument using close reading, historical context, and course theories together so I can explain not just what a text shows but what it is doing in its political moment.
Fall 2025 · Singh, Preeti
Viewing the Cold War through the lens of countries in Asia and Africa, extracting cultural viewpoints through primary sources, analyzing secondary sources to provide context of a historical time period
Fall 2025 · Singh, Preeti
learned about the Cold War historically, culturally, and politically. Also learned about colonialism and resistance to imperialism in Eurasia and South America.
Fall 2025 · Singh, Preeti
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | Singh, Preeti 0.0Rate My ProfessorsQuality0.0Difficulty0.0Based on 0 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 3.9 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 16 |
Instructor
Singh, PreetiAMES
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