This is just the most boring and confusing class ive ever taken. She is not good at grounding you in history. If you zone off for a second you suddenly missed 100 years of history that you cannot find anywhere cause there is like 3 words of each slide. Terribly structured lectures. Possibly needs to be completely restructured. So so confusing.

Professor Digeser's class was a mixed bag - the content was interesting but the rigid structure and heavy workload made it a slog. Luckily, unstuck ai and ChatGPT helped me stay on top of the readings and essays.

Lots of reading that we were supposed to be quizzed on and we were only quizzed twice. The class was composed of a research paper, essay midterm, essay final, and 2 (supposed to be 8) quizzes. She is accommodating, responds to emails quickly, and her lectures are well structured.

Really interesting lecturer. Yes there is a lot of reading but it's interesting and she elaborates on the reading in lecture. Says she gives "pop quizzes" in order to encourage you are actually reading, but she often just hints and nudges when there will be a quiz. Midterm and final are essays, quizzes are easy if you do the reading.

Digeser wasn't the best professor, but she was pretty iconic. Her slides were unorganized, and she makes you take notes by hand, but the content was interesting. She assigned long readings from a textbook, but I still understood the content without doing the readings. If you don't mind taking hand-written notes, then this class isn't too bad.

if you dont have to take this class DO NOT take it. i respect her as she is passionate about her work but the TA's are tough graders and is so lecture heavy. i went to every single one and still didnt get atleast a B. SO much reading too, even my TA told us he had trouble keeping up. please dont take unless you actually need to.