Jacob Tropp

Overall this course is a very good course if you want to major in history and generally have that passion. The professor is great, very passionate and very sweet and humourous. The readings though are insane, we have like 100 pages each week so if you’re doing it to try something new or fill a distribution think again and be sure. There are about three critical response papers and there’s no clear question, just “write a critical response ” so if you’re a person who needs a guiding question you’ll be stumped. We also have like 3 chunky books autobiographical books to read and write a paper on one. And one final paper. It is crazyyy and way too intense. He is rigid with deadlines and will drop you a grade if you’re late ; but it’s funny because he’s so sweet so imagine someone smiling and being so soft spoken but telling you they will drop you a grade and they actually will lol. This class was too overwhelming for me as I have no desire to major or minor in history and if you just want to learn about African history it will put you off . I ended up dropping the class as a first year in my first year semester more than halfway into the coruse yikes !!!

Overall this course is a very good course if you want to major in history and generally have that passion. The professor is great, very passionate and very sweet and humourous. The readings though are insane, we have like 100 pages each week so if you’re doing it to try something new or fill a distribution think again and be sure. Th …Read more

This course had a lot of content and as such it came with a good bit of reading, some of which was pretty tedious, but the topics it was on was reasonably interesting. The lectures really just reenforced the reading and went into a little more of the nitty gritty, so I found taking notes in class to be the best way to get information, but Tropp moves quickly, so you have to be quick. My biggest downside to this class was the rigidness of Tropp's deadlines. Sometimes I'd be completely swamped with work from all my other classes, but he really doesn't like to give extensions.

This course had a lot of content and as such it came with a good bit of reading, some of which was pretty tedious, but the topics it was on was reasonably interesting. The lectures really just reenforced the reading and went into a little more of the nitty gritty, so I found taking notes in class to be the best way to get information …Read more

Professor Tropp was a great and enthusiastic professor. You could get by in this class without doing most of the reading, as the material in the textbook was covered in class by the lectures. Tropp's lectures were interesting and engaging, and you can see his passion for the class. He did make us read two books throughout the semester and write papers on them, which increased the workload significantly. He was a harsh grader on the essays, but the exams were not too bad and there was a take-home essay component on all the exams.

Professor Tropp was a great and enthusiastic professor. You could get by in this class without doing most of the reading, as the material in the textbook was covered in class by the lectures. Tropp's lectures were interesting and engaging, and you can see his passion for the class. He did make us read two books throughout the semeste …Read more