Great professor who is clearly very passionate. Sometimes this leads to her going off topic and rambling in lectures, but generally they are very good. Graded on in-class midterm with cheatsheet, project with lots of options, 5 forum posts, and take-home final. She really cares about her students and is a pretty easy grader if you try.

Great Professor. Very very helpful and will do all she can to help her students succeed. The writing assignments are relevant and graded very fairly. Lots of reading but hey its a history course!

She is a fantastic professor! She is very interested in the topic and her enthusiasm is inspiring. There is a lot of writing in this course, but it is all based on the reading and she is a fairly easy grader. I cannot recommend her enough.

Class is largely two essays (50%) and final (20%). She's pretty chill and there's EC. I hardly went to class but did well thanks to TA. The final is a bit annoying as you have to prep ~10 possible prompts (with quotes as evidence) on your cheat sheet but it's more busywork than hard. IDs on test are not bad at all. Read the books btw.

Even though Rappaport is very nice, caring, & accommodating, the final exam is absolutely ridiculous for this class especially being that it is a lower-div/GE requirement. The "study guide" given lists sixteen essay prompts from 10+ sources and expects you to be knowledgable on HUNDREDS of topics/sources for the "ID section". Extremely frustrating.

I never attended lecture yet I got an A on all hw assignments and on both papers. She is heavy on assignments but it's not bad at all. My ta Victoria Sharp however was terrible. She held no compassion and would constantly push her political beliefs onto the class during the section. Overall good class but if Victoria Sharp is ever your ta SWITCH