Take this course! A great upper div even if you aren't a history major. Two essays, project, and final. Fair grader. Interesting lectures and relevant, current material.

A really lovely professor. She made the class and her assignments very interesting. Would definitely recommend to anyone.

Great Prof! Easy A

Excellent Professor I am planning on taking another class with her. She is very passionate at her job and very interesting in her lectures. By far my favorite teacher at UCSB so far

Rappaport is a good preofessor. Gives extra credit opportunities, no midtem but you do four papers 2 short 2 long. She is passionate so thats good! she is not an intense grader either so the papers aren't a nightmare. ovrerall I liked her!

Great Professor. Very very helpful and will do all she can to help her students succeed. The writing assignments are relevant and graded very fairly. Lots of reading but hey its a history course!

She is a fantastic professor! She is very interested in the topic and her enthusiasm is inspiring. There is a lot of writing in this course, but it is all based on the reading and she is a fairly easy grader. I cannot recommend her enough.

Fantastic lady and an even better teacher. Extremely nice, but also very engaging. Willing to work with you about extensions as long as she can tell you are a dedicated student. Takes great pains to make lecture interesting and also to ask student opinion, can't recommend her highly enough

Such a great professor. She makes the topics interesting and easy to grasp. She is so easy to approach and cares so much about her students. I can't wait to take more classes from her.

She is an amazing professor! You can tell that she is passionate about her subject, and loves to share what she knows with her students. Her main focus is on the cultural aspects of Britain society, which is a nice change to the normal and sometimes boring traditional British history. Not much reading except for the 2 novels she assigned.

All her lectures are on powerpoint so attending class is not 100% mandatory. Sessions are important, only 2 essays which are based on readings and a book. Final was the only difficult part.

Easy class with really interesting subjects... but lectures got pretty boring. 2 900-word papers and a final. She gives a study guide out before the final, and lets you bring an 8x11 to the exam, so as long as you do the study guide you're golden. In the end, your TA does the grading, so definitely go to office hours!!

Hated the class, extremely boring lectures, i fell asleep in them. Her voice is whiny. Class theme was interesting but she found a way to make it boring, essays were somewhat easy, final was easier than i thought. Hardly went to lecture always attended discussion, easy final, passed the class. Boring teacher though.

I felt this class was really boring. The subjects were great but I hated lecture. I always felt talked down to. there are definitely better history teachers. stick to 2C if you have the choice.

her voice is annoying. she rants on pointlessly. grade consists of two papers and a final. kind of hard to write because ta was useless and didnt tell us exactly what he was looking for in a paper, topics were vague and open ended. try to take with diff prof if you have to take this class

Rappaport is a sweet lady. She gives you the midterm and final questions beforehand, AND allows you to bring in an 8 by 11 study sheet both sides... so just use really tiny font and put all the info you need. I missed a lot of lectures and still got an A. And she has a good sense of humor!

Her squeaky voice is a bit annoying, and she exaggerates and uses hyperbole to describe details in her lectures. It makes her sound a bit out of touch. I wouldn't avoid because in the end its your TA grading, but there's better historys profs out there

Easy A. Midterm, term paper, final. There's three outside books, but I didn't read two of them and I still pulled a B+ on the paper. Don't need to go to lecture, but if you do, you can see she's passionate. An easy class.

She is very passionate about what she teaches and it really rubs of on her students. She is very helpful and understanding. Her lectures are interesting and her assignments are not at all complicated. Great Professor!

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Really easy take home final/midterm and paper. Readings and lectures are both very interesting.

Lectures outline textbook material she wants you to focus on. You can skip lectures, but if you go to lectures, you don't need to read the text--just the primary sources and other books. There's a take home midterm, term paper, and final (you get the questions prior to the final and a sheet of notes for the final. Easiest history class ever.

How can you not like her classes? She's smart and the students I've heard complain about her could actuallylearn a lot if they'd come to class and pay attention.