He is the greatest teacher I have ever had. His passion and love for this subject are unparalleled even to the greatest of teachers. His monotone is something I have grown to love and I continue to strive to be like him. HE is a great role model.
Mr Akulov is a life changing teacher. Don't listen to people who say his voice is boring, they are liars who are jealous of his supreme history abilities. Walking into his classroom brings a flutter to my heart. Fellow classmate says, "He's the greatest teacher I've ever had." Your life isn't complete until you get a Mr Akulov lesson.
Great teacher respectful and caring!
History 4C is great if you didn't take AP Euro in high school. Akulov's lectures were boring at times. my TA was great and section participation was mandatory as well as short weekly forums. However, there's only one paper due at the end of the quarter. Midterm and Final are multiple-choice. some reading but also easy to skim and still get an A!
He's a great lecturer and is very knowledgeable. He covers a lot of information in his lectures so there's definitely a lot of notes to take. There is also a lot of assigned readings along with weekly discussion section posts but the workload overall is manageable. Overall, he's a pretty great prof who cares about students!
Professor Akulov is clearly very well versed on the subject and lectures are relatively easy to follow. There are multiple lectures a week (up to 4) which is on the more lecture heavy side. He also assigns a lot of readings, 2-3 a day which are interesting but not necessarily extremely essential to the understanding of the course and the quizzes.
Professor Akulov was a very knowledgeable lecturer provided students with clear guidelines and expectations for the course. The course was easy as long as you attend lectures and pay attention. The only problem is he assigns a large amount of outside readings that take up a lot of time outside of class.
Took History 2C with him over the summer. He was ok. His accent made it a little difficult to understand. The content was interesting. If you do the readings and actually study you can pass with an A. He posts the slides on gauchospace but you should still go to lecture
Not the most compelling speaker, but fantastic class. Western Civ ignores petty details and focuses on ideas like the evolution of the concept of freedom. He doesn't preach, but this class changed how I think about the world. Paper topics were interesting and made me grow as a scholar.
Generally nice guy. Knew what he was talking about. Covered the textbook readings in lecture so all you had to read were the primary sources. Would take another one of his courses.
Lectures are very boring and Professor Akulov is a boring person. His voice is very hypnotizing. Couldn't keep awake most of the time. I hate history and this is seriously the worst class ever.
Fairly easy class and it's good to take early because it opens a lot of upper div history classes that you can take without being a junior. Akulov is a cool guy and he lectures with slides that are easy to copy down. The only qualm I had with him was his final/midterm essay questions were kinda hard, but if you read the material you could BS them.