An easy class that wouldn't require much reading to pass if you pay attention during lectures.

The course covers monuments, architecture, jewelry, pottery, mummies, burials, paintings, nude statues, trade, cities, some warfare, and forms of government from the paleolithic to pre-industrial periods, consisting of lectures, readings from the professor's book, and weekly-ish chapter-wise tests (these make up 30% of the final grade) based on video lectures and chapter readings, and two exams, the midterm and the final exam, worth 30% each. The last 10% is "in-text chapter questions" that take 10 minutes to complete. There is some potential to get extra credits; if you're serious about it, you can increase your final grade by up to +6% by writing 2-page essays on three of the movies listed in the syllabus.

Dr. Mcguire is a good storyteller. I wasn't bored, even though the content was not always exciting.

Textbook costs something crazy like $110. It isn't a requirement, but it was sometimes helpful since the tests were open-book. You can split the cost between people, though IDK how that works. The syllabus details some extra readings and videos that don't get explained in the lectures but are sometimes tested, so watch out for those. There are also questions from The Golden Ass in the second half of the course. I found it sufficient to read online summaries before the tests.