The worst professor I ever met.

Pretty simple class. Doesn't focus at all on the textbook, everything is based on the primary sources and lecture. Only 3 essays which are not too bad if you do the readings.

Lectures are packed with information but do a good job at going over the reading. What impressed me the most with his accessibility to help his students. For the papers do in this class he replied to student emails over the weekends and extended office hours. Very knowledgable.

This class is based upon 3 papers (a midterm, final and final paper) and section participation. Two of the papers are 800-900 words. These are F-R's "exams," but they're more like take-home essays. The final paper is 1800-2000 words. All three focus on the course reader primary sources so the textbook is essentially optional.

If you have no other option than to take History 2B with this guy, then brace yourself. My TA was horrible. I was the first wave to be taught by him and he was very much unprepared. Could I have gotten an A in the course if it had been another professor? Beyond a thousand times yes! He's not stupid, quite knowledgable, but needs more practice.

Prof is fine, nothing bad, nothing great. Lectures aren't posted online, so you pretty much have to come to class, or get the notes from someone else. The midterm, paper, and final are all pretty easy; as long as you read/study you'll do fine (the amount of reading makes you think the tests will be on the harder/more in-depth side, they're not).

doesn't post PPTs even if he did it wouldn't be very helpful bc the slides barely say anything, he talks a lot. Closest thing to a study guide is a list of key terms. Tests aren't super hard if you study the terms and memorize the docs. know who, what, when, for the doc ID on the test and tie it into broader context. clears his throat constantly

First time teaching as a professor. Nice guy, good lectures, but horrible grading and tests. You have to read around 10 documents a week before section to discuss about them. Have to memorize them for document IDs where given 2 sentences of a document and have to identify what document it is. Very demanding class. Doesn't share PPTs or materials.

By far the worst class I have taken at UCSB. There's too much reading (6-8 hours/week) and his lectures are dull. Exam consists of 25-30 questions and three document IDs based off of excerpts that could literally come FROM ANY OF THE READINGS. I don't even know what to study for the final exam because he constantly changes the syllabus.