Connor Williams

History is not my thing and this course made it even worse. The professor rephrases and repeats stuff over and over again without making any actual points. Things are worse near the end of the semester, because the prof just lets students "discuss with each other" for half an hour straight. He occasionally writes a few additional discussion questions on the board and waits for us to discuss even longer.

History is not my thing and this course made it even worse. The professor rephrases and repeats stuff over and over again without making any actual points. Things are worse near the end of the semester, because the prof just lets students "discuss with each other" for half an hour straight. He occasionally writes a few additional dis …Read more

Prof Williams is very into his material, but sometimes it feels like he's more interested in discussing his book and talking at us about history rather than facilitating authentic discussion and discourse between students, which is how he claims the class is structured.

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