Really interesting lectures and he gives a fresh perspective on the history that we've learned so many times. We had a take home midterm paper and the same for the final, which weren't too bad, as long as you ask your TA and the prof for feedback before turning it in! He really cares about student success!

I took the class to get a writing req done, but I ended up loving the class. I thought the info was super interesting, and Boswell was a great lecturer. Definitely recommend attending class because not everything is on the PowerPoints she posts online. 2 Essays that build on each other, graded pretty easy. Final and midterm were relatively easy too

Professor Cobo is a nice guy, but his lectures were very monotone and dull. His rhetoric in lecture is very hard to understand and he speaks very quickly. I also have never had so much reading and HW in a history course, & the reading was very dense. There were 2 essays, and the midterm needs to be hand written. It was a very challenging class.

His classes and lectures are not very interesting and he really only focuses on a few regions which gets repetitive. Alright workload, journal entries are short but the readings are dense and can get boring, a take home midterm and final but he expects you to write a lot and expand past the questions he asks which makes it unclear on what to focus

His lectures are amazing but there's A LOT of reading to which he has you write a short response to, he's very understanding and quick to respond to emails/give feedback. Don't skip class! The material itself isn't difficult but the work can be demanding, it's a good class but wouldn't recommend for those who want an easy A

Ive taken two classes with Cobo and it was a MISTAKE. He assigns multiple readings per lecture and theres a journal entry required for each reading. Readings are super dense and long, and so are his lectures. If you miss more than 3 lectures you automatically fail the course. His classes burned me out SO much.