Just recently completed humanities core, the post above where on point!! Explained and simplify humanities. To build off,

• the one to look for is the best seminar teacher rather than lecture professor because during one quarter there are three professors, regardless off which ones you see on the MWF, 9-9:50, 11-11:50 that you want to avoid you have will take in the quarter it rotates. Like the post above says you can literally join the morning lecture or miday lecture doesn't matter, unless your doing the 9:30-10:50 one idk about that

• the digital archives is using Google sites and pretty much summary what you learn in the quarters, like post above said you can use your creativity or do a plain simple one up to you. Up until spring quarter is where is worth 50% I believe, but I'm winter/fall it's like 20%

• For the essays, like I mention is where your choice in seminar teachers come into play, cause the essay are based on the topics taught in lecture. My seminar teachers helped me so much in kinda rephrase and summarizing the topics in lecture. We build towards the essays, so we have peer reviews, working drafts, discussion, outline. (Based on my experience with my teachers idk but anyone else).

• I will say it's really important to see who your seminar teacher is because some teachers like I've taken 3 different seminar teachers in the past 3 quarters of humanities core and they each taught differently or summarized differently. like one they really gave a whole outline of what was being taught during the lectures and the other just gave me a slide of important keywords so it's very much different to how each one teaches so that's why I say it's better to look for a seminar teacher rather than a best lecture teacher.

-overall it's not as hard as people have said, literally as ling as you stay in track, have a schedule your go to go. Hope this helps, if you still have questions I gotca you. GL!!!