Connor Williams

12-page paper, 15 minute presentation, and a few other 3-4 page writing assignments. The class is attempting to cover a subject that would be far better suited to a regular semester and the work load would be completely reasonable if it wasn't a J-Term class. Don't take it unless you're oddly fascinated with this one subject. Also 3-hour lectures are completely unnecessary for the course material. If it were restructured with shorter lectures and more engaging assignments it'd be good. However, as of now this class is not worth it in the slightest for non-history majors.

12-page paper, 15 minute presentation, and a few other 3-4 page writing assignments. The class is attempting to cover a subject that would be far better suited to a regular semester and the work load would be completely reasonable if it wasn't a J-Term class. Don't take it unless you're oddly fascinated with this one subject. Also 3- …Read more

This course is very lecture based and there was not much diverse learning strategies until students brought that up to the Professor. Definitely a reading-heavy course, with interesting readings, but with so much constant reading it was hard to grasp everything that should've been through the readings, if that makes sense. Lectures and the few discussions in class were thought-provoking. Going into this course, I was intrigued by the memory part, but we didn't talk much about this, the lectures were just history focused, and there was not much talk of "remembering " catastrophes in the way the course seemed like it would. Overall, this course was an intersting expereince, but would be considered boring to someone who is not a history major.

This course is very lecture based and there was not much diverse learning strategies until students brought that up to the Professor. Definitely a reading-heavy course, with interesting readings, but with so much constant reading it was hard to grasp everything that should've been through the readings, if that makes sense. Lectures a …Read more

Professor Williams is a very passionate historian and lecturer, and is very skilled at this field of knowledge. But sometimes his class content could be quite boring, as a non history major. Easy grading, easy to talk to/