The Making Of Europe
The Making of Europe This course covers the history of Western Europe from the death of Caesar in 44 B.C. to the Peace of Westphalia in A.D. 1648. We will examine three interrelated themes: political authority within European society, the development of the religious culture of the West and the challenges to that culture, and the ways in which the development of a European economy contributed to the making of Europe itself. While examining these questions from the Roman Empire to early modern Europe, students will focus on the use of original sources, and on how historians interpret the past. Pre-1800. Not open to seniors.
Burnham is brilliant and clearly super passionate about the material, but a lot of the assignments and readings felt like busy work, and she grades super slowly, which can make it hard to gauge how you are doing in the course. Exams tended to focus on names, dates, and events, and the lectures felt a bit scattered at times. Definitely a course you can do well in, but not necessarily one I could take again.
Burnham is brilliant and clearly super passionate about the material, but a lot of the assignments and readings felt like busy work, and she grades super slowly, which can make it hard to gauge how you are doing in the course. Exams tended to focus on names, dates, and events, and the lectures felt a bit scattered at times. Definitel …Read more
The course just has a lot of busy work. If you’re willing to spend the extra time to do the busy work it is not hard to do well. Prof was super approachable for me and was always happy to answer questions and give extra help. You have every resource to get an A+ on every assignment available to you, but you have to do all the work for it.
I think Burnham is a very good historian but she's a bit scattered. We don't get our projects back promptly, nor our tests. She also is not the greatest at responding to emails. There's a lot of random assignments that aren't particularly interesting. It's a semi easy class for a distribution requirement though.
Burnham loves European history, but she is so disorganized that it's impossible to follow lectures. Her Canvas page is super confusing. She also assigns Inquizitive textbook readings quizzes every week, which seem pretty useless. The material is pretty worthless and is focused on memorizing small details of random events. Super super disorganized.
I found this class to be difficult to follow and the material was dense. Burnham is super passionate about the topics, but she is a really tough grader and I never had a good read on what she was looking for. I found this class to be stressful