Amit Prakash

This course is a general overview of Europe during and between the two world wars but goes beyond the historical facts and delves into the psychological, philosophical, and cultural outlooks of the period. Professor Prakash is an excellent lecturer who does a great job weaving these various threads together while simultaneously connecting them to modern trends. The workload consisted of a decent amount of reading per week accompanied by a weekly reading journal which was mostly just your interpretations of the text. Aside from that the only other assignments were a midterm and a final both of which were mostly comprised of essay and short response questions.

This course is a general overview of Europe during and between the two world wars but goes beyond the historical facts and delves into the psychological, philosophical, and cultural outlooks of the period. Professor Prakash is an excellent lecturer who does a great job weaving these various threads together while simultaneously conne …Read more

Prof Prakash is absolutely wonderful! He is extremely knowledgeable and goes above and beyond. He is very accommodating. I loved taking this course - really branched out my mind! Fair warning - it is VERY reading heavy and has regular reflection submissions based on the readings. But overall a great class!

As is the case in many intro classes, the quantity of material covered is quite high, but Prakash and Ramaswamy make it worthwhile. Both are excellent professors with a wealth of insight into the material. I found it to be manageable and made me want to take more IGS courses. Would recommend for a broad overview of many key themes at Middlebury.