Great lectures, but hardly count towards your grade. Easy A if you can write 3 quality essays. Readings are almost nearly optional, but I usually skim to complete the reading questions (usually only about 250 words per week). Overall, easy class, interesting content, and no mandatory attendance.

Professor Perrone is an amazing lecturer. She is highly organized and clearly very knowledgable and passionate about the subject matter. She was accommodating and gave great feedback as well. Readings could be lengthy but were always interesting and relevant. I took HIST 17B with her too, and cannot recommend her courses enough.

First time teaching the class but she did an AMAZING job. I'm honestly kind of bummed it was cut short because of the strike. Lectures were informative with some guest lecturers. Assigned articles were interesting and supplemented lecture well. Course was graded w/ 3 op-eds w/ chance to rewrite for higher grade. Sections were discussion based.

such an easy GE. attendance is optional and lectures are very interesting. no final, graded by TA on 3 op-eds with one makeup optional. section is mandatory for points but very easy and fun.

this was her first year teaching HIST5, but I thought she did a good job. She is very passionate about her beliefs but did not push them on any of the students, but instead allowed each of us to create our own interpretations. The big assignments were three papers, op-eds, that you get to choose the topic of.

Professor Perone recorded the lectures (really well done) and the TA graded the midterms. While the TA was definitely not an easy grader, she was very reasonable in her grading and expected solid college-worthy essays. My only (minor) criticism was that sometimes the essay prompts were unclear. Fortunately, room for interpretation was given.

While the professor did a nice job of doing lectures and clearly explaining the material, the "reader" a.k.a the TA of the class grades super unfairly, and the fact that we have to risk scoring lower if we ask for a regrade is INSANE. Pandemic or not, have a little more empathy for your students. The fact that it's all based on 3 assignments--bye.

The professor was great, but the reader who grades the assignments was very objective and would give poor grades if the argument in the paper was 'not good enough' or if it was an objective argument. I do not recommend taking this class in COVID times due to everything being online and how subjective the grader is.

Perrone is an amazing lecturer and an outstanding professor overall. I have never taken a more clearly organized and structured course in my life. Although, her TAs are tough graders and assignment criteria isnt always clearly stated. Thus, to avoid missing points, ask questions about assignment requirements.

Clear class schedule and enthusiasm in the Civil War topic, she offers great opinion and facts in the topic. She is willing to answer questions in and out of class. One of the best professors in my college life. But, must be aware of the heavy reading assignment, over 50 pages per week with required notes and two papers of 12 pages in total.