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.
Bad class. Lots of readings that didn’t seem to relate to the course theme very much. Had to memorize dates for exams and papers were not graded quickly. A shame as it could have been very interesting I think.
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.
Professor Burnham is extremely passionate and knowledgeable in her field of work. Assignments mainly consisted of annotating primary sources before discussion and completing inquisitive assignments (questions from the online textbook website). The inquisitive assignments sometimes took way too long—the difficulty of the questions would vary and you lose points for each incorrect answer. She also assigned chronology quizzes that expect you to memorize dates—some of the questions can be tough. Everything she assigns is online, including the midterm and final. The midterm and final exams are essay exams in a certain time window. Overall, I learned a lot because I completed textbook readings and paid attention in lectures. She can be a tough grader because she expects you to remember specific information for the essays. Your class grade isn't the greatest indicator of your knowledge of the course—don't take if you want an easy A
Professor Burnham is extremely passionate and knowledgeable in her field of work. Assignments mainly consisted of annotating primary sources before discussion and completing inquisitive assignments (questions from the online textbook website). The inquisitive assignments sometimes took way too long—the difficulty of the questions wou …Read more
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.
Professor Burnham is highly passionate about European history! She includes much of her experience of traveling to various European countries in lectures and even shows us medieval items she collects. Her class isn't too heavy on readings and homework, and she's a very understanding professor.
Louisa Burnham is extremely excited by the material she teaches for this class which i think brings a lot to what we speak about. However, the exams are super heavily focused on names and dates which can make them tedious, difficult, and memorization based. I think the material is super interesting but doesn't necessarily correlate with what you are required to know to do well in the class.
Louisa Burnham is extremely excited by the material she teaches for this class which i think brings a lot to what we speak about. However, the exams are super heavily focused on names and dates which can make them tedious, difficult, and memorization based. I think the material is super interesting but doesn't necessarily correlate w …Read more
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.
The Making of Europe with Professor Burnham consisted of a lot of busy work and many quizzes. You need to memorize a lot of dates to do well on the exams, but the class is not too hard as long as you stay on top of the assigned readings.
Overall, the course was simply not the right making of an intro history course. The lectures were too fast, the tests digging out the most random material. I don't know how the teacher made an enjoyable topic horrible.
Content was awful. Teacher was very kind and cared about her class. Home works and essays were kind of on random stuff that did not always relate to the class. Organization of the class was all over.
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
This class was a pretty basic history class, there were a lot of lectures that you kinda just have to sit through. The exams are fair, but the chronological quizzes seemed pretty unnecessary and more difficult than they needed to be.