Professor Farmer is a really sweet person but when it comes to teaching, she can be dry and boring. She makes conclusions about the reading she expects you to immediately understand which make the class difficult. An essay counts as your midterm. She lets you know what to study for the final. You must read and attend the discussions.

Textbook use low, focus on primary sources. I think her lectures are fine, she gives you lecture notes beforehand. Not inspiring but not terrible by any means. Sets up events like rare book exhibits outside of class, which is cool. Everybody complaining about religion: the classes are about the history of Europe. There's gonna be a lot of religion.

just wanna say that she's not nice and doesnt really care, I had to miss the first day of class for my grandma's funeral and all she emailed me back when I emailed her was "send me evidence of the event SF". I may be biased because that totally turned me off, but this class was a waste of time, more like Christian studies than history class

she's incredibly boring, I slept through most classes. I was pumped for the class subject but its proved to be my least fav. history class ever. shes not a very good history teacher, she likes people and religion, but really bad about facts and actual historical events, her essays seem open but if you dont tell her what she wants you wont do well.

While she can get caught up in her lectures and become difficult to understand it is clear that she is passionate about the material and presents it in interesting ways. Reading the primary sources is a must and the papers, midterm and final are relatively easy.

Oh, c'mon people! The subjects are by their very definition difficult. Don't blame it on the professor. yeah, she's not the best, but she doesnt make class "miserable". She gives lectures like any other professor I've ever had. She's not the most exciting lecturer, but she's not difficult to listen to by any means. Her lectures were cohesive.