Lectures are quite boring to be honest. The prof often reads directly from her notes. Guest lecturers (which are almost weekly) vary in engagement. It's definitely TA dependent, though, as they're the ones marking your tutorial reflection logs and assignments (there were two). Quizzes are open book with no time limit. And there's no final exam, which was nice. Generally, the course load was extremely light, except for when there was an assignment due.

It covers a lot of theories of helping, which is useful for anyone going into social work or any career that involves working with people. Overall, applicable information, just not delivered well a lot of the time.

If you need accommodations, even if you're not registered with SAS, she's very open to talking about what you require. There's also a grace period on all quizzes, so you don't have to use an MSAF for that. However, she does read directly from her notes and the slides, which can get incredibly boring.

The class was really good, though sometimes it may be boring I would say It is a pretty light course if you take it seriously. Ann is a kind lady and the TA's are pretty chill.

She really sweet and explains fairly well however it does get hella boring.

I would say even if the quiz are open book try and review the materials before hand cause sometimes the answers wont pop out and always use the talking notes over the presentations they are really useful

I don't want to say this course is easy because I feel like that would be a misrepresentation of the course. However, it is set up so that if you do the readings and actively engage with the content, you're set up for success. Professor VanCamp is incredible and really advocates for proper accommodations for students. As someone who spent almost a thousand dollars on textbooks in the last year, I was incredibly grateful to have the readings available to me without cost.

The content of this course is particularly useful for students looking to write the Social Work admissions test at McMaster, but I also believe it's useful for anyone who is looking to pursue a "helping" career and wants to be familiar with anti-oppressive frameworks and theoretical perspectives on help.

Professor VanCamp is a great professor who is always available when/if you have questions and who truly cares about the course content.

You are given ample time to work on essays, while is heavily weighted, try to work a little bit on them the entire duration as opposed to writing the essay on a shorter deadline.

Great course, taking 1AA3 made it a little bit easier as some of the concepts could be applied