I took a class with him a few quarters back and I really liked the material that we learned. He allowed us to rewrite our essays which was very helpful and you can go to office hours to get more elaboration. Pretty easy going during class and makes the conversation engaging with the students. Not intimidating, very approachable in my experience

His grading criteria is haphazard. There are weekly readings of up to 100 pages that you are supposed to condense and analyze "thoughtfully" in 500 word papers. His lectures make no sense. When you ask the TA why you got a low grade on the weekly paper even though you followed the syllabus guidelines they tell you they "can't articulate it"

Stephens is clearly passionate about history. His lectures can be a bit dull but he is super nice and genuinely cares about his students. Go to office hours and talk through your paper, it is highly helpful.

I enjoyed his class for Hist 2C, the papers due for the class aren't very difficult. The class is lecture heavy, but I recommend him very much. He's also pretty funny so that was a plus.

I enjoyed taking this class because Professor Stephens clearly told us information in lectures, and fairly warned us what was going to be on exams. The class is mostly based on his lectures and documents we would read for section. He also gave pop quizzes throughout the quarter! I would say overall he was a fair professor

Genuinely cares about the success of his students and wants to see them do well. As a new teacher, he is still perfecting his lecture style but honestly still does a great job so I don't understand why he is criticized so harshly sometimes. Attendance isn't mandatory but still go to class because there are 5 pop quizzes! Overall he is very kind