best history course I've taken as a history major! Lectures are detailed, information dense but everything is useful towards midterms & final. 2 midterm papers and the final was another 2 papers. She gives you enough time to complete them and she is really understanding if you come to her with a concern/issue. Going to lecture is KEY to passing.

She is the best history professor at UCSB in my experience. Her lectures are easy to follow and she explains everything with such great detail. I used to think history was boring until I took her course.

First time teaching the class but she did an AMAZING job. I'm honestly kind of bummed it was cut short because of the strike. Lectures were informative with some guest lecturers. Assigned articles were interesting and supplemented lecture well. Course was graded w/ 3 op-eds w/ chance to rewrite for higher grade. Sections were discussion based.

such an easy GE. attendance is optional and lectures are very interesting. no final, graded by TA on 3 op-eds with one makeup optional. section is mandatory for points but very easy and fun.

Perrone is the best. also if you can, take this class with Janna Haider!! she's literally the best.

this was her first year teaching HIST5, but I thought she did a good job. She is very passionate about her beliefs but did not push them on any of the students, but instead allowed each of us to create our own interpretations. The big assignments were three papers, op-eds, that you get to choose the topic of.

took this course for my major, overall great/enthusiastic professor. alot of reading, but honestly i didn't do it all-- just read the more important pieces. grades are mostly based on papers and they aren't too hard, easy to do well even if you procrastinate. take her class! honestly pretty entertaining and you can tell she knows what she's doing

i absolutely loved Prof. Perrone! her lectures were super engaging and easy to understand and she really cares about the course material as well as her students. midterm and final were both take home essays and she was very accommodating. i didn't have the best experience with my TA but still really enjoyed the class.

Professor Perrone is an amazing lecturer. Even through the craziness of COVID, she was making the class interesting. The class consists of section attendance and participation and 3 papers which were easy because my TA was extremely helpful and accessible.

really easy assignments, watch the all the lectures but you only have to read a handful of readings. 3 papers all straightforward 3-5pgs and heavily covered in lecture/section. feels like she really cares about the class

Professor Perrone is really passionate about history and carries that passion into her lectures. Her lectures were fun and easy to follow! I absolutely loved this class!

The lectures are amazing but the grading is mostly made up with midterm, essay, and final. The class overall is very easy going and interesting. The class was asynchronous but mandatory attendance for section.

Most of the material in the lectures you probably already learned in high school history classes. Your grade really depends on how nice your TA is since they grade all of your essays. There's a midterm essay, one 5-7 page essay, and a short essay and short answer prompt for the final.

prof Perrone was the highlight of my semester. Her lectures are great and she does an amazing job explaining the area of focus she is most interested in as well. She's really engaging. And her cats are the cutest. Biscuit and Gravy often make appearances in the back of class :')

Prof Perrone is an amazing lecturer, but sometimes they can be fairly long. Required readings every week that arent difficult and are discussed during section. There is a lot to cover, but if you keep up with lectures and try hard on your essays you should do just fine.

Seems like she doesnt understand that we have other classes or lives outside of her class. The workload never lets up even if you have a midterm/essay or its a holiday. She assigns an unnecessary amount of reading and 3 lectures each week. I would strongly recommend a different professor but its not the end of the world if youre stuck with her

I don't really like US History, so my review may be biased, but I found this class very boring. The lectures were very dull and most people around me weren't paying attention at all. The section is a lot of work, and there is a lot of reading as well.

Professor Perone recorded the lectures (really well done) and the TA graded the midterms. While the TA was definitely not an easy grader, she was very reasonable in her grading and expected solid college-worthy essays. My only (minor) criticism was that sometimes the essay prompts were unclear. Fortunately, room for interpretation was given.

While the professor did a nice job of doing lectures and clearly explaining the material, the "reader" a.k.a the TA of the class grades super unfairly, and the fact that we have to risk scoring lower if we ask for a regrade is INSANE. Pandemic or not, have a little more empathy for your students. The fact that it's all based on 3 assignments--bye.

The professor was great, but the reader who grades the assignments was very objective and would give poor grades if the argument in the paper was 'not good enough' or if it was an objective argument. I do not recommend taking this class in COVID times due to everything being online and how subjective the grader is.

She's such a passionate and powerful lecturer and makes the hour go by so fast. Her powerpoints she posts online have clear points, but the inclass lectures go in depth much more. The midterm/final were very straightforward to easy to do well on if you paid attention to the themes she referred to throughout the lectures.

Personally thought the class was super boring but she posts her slides so I wasn't necessary to go. Everything graded in the class was writing (a short writing assignment, 1 essay and the midterm n final were in class essays) so wouldnt recommend if you don't like writing. Lots of reading but they were just important for section and the essay

I took a Hist course my 1st quarter here and it was awful so I was dreading another but she changed my mind about them! I enjoyed her lecture style, she was very organized and passionate about the Civil War, Reconstruction etc. Had 2 papers, midterm and final. They were pretty straightforward as long as attended some lecture and did readings.

Perrone is an amazing lecturer and an outstanding professor overall. I have never taken a more clearly organized and structured course in my life. Although, her TAs are tough graders and assignment criteria isnt always clearly stated. Thus, to avoid missing points, ask questions about assignment requirements.