Tbh I don't know why there are so many negative reviews. This is the easiest class I've taken at UCSB. We had weekly Eli reviews, a very easy midterm project and exam, and a short final research paper. I also only went to 50% of the lectures and still received an A. She is a bit disorganized, but still very nice and easygoing.

She does not know how to teach. I was lost and her instructions confused me even more. Grad students in the history department said shes notorious for being bad at her job. If I wanna take another history class, now I know who to avoid.

She is very unclear about her assignments and her lectures are even more confusing. It seems she doesnt have a good grasp outside LATAM and women history which made the class the blind leading the blind

Veronica is helpful, kind, and knowledgeable. I took the class not as a History major, but an engineering student looking to complete my depth requirement. Her course, however, has re-sparked my interest in History. As a tip, be sure to do all of the reading before coming to class!

She was very, very sweet. However, I did not learn anything.. She was gone for ~5 weeks due to an illness, not her fault, but quizzes were dense/she expected us to know. She didn't reply to any of my emails. We went over like 30 years in one lecture, and I don't know how? Slides were provided, but as informational as a picture book. Overall, no.

This class was not difficult at all, just extremely boring. The weekly ELI review was annoying due to it being unnecessarily long. I ended up skipping most lectures toward the end of the quarter, as they were often disorganized and presented very little actual material. I learned more from a 35 minute youtube video than the whole class itself.