HIEU 2721

This class is a pretty interesting history course where you learn about subjects like witchcraft, werewolves, and demons, and why people believed these were real and why we stopped believing in them. The course isn't too hard, with the grade being made up of discussion participation, multiple-choice quizzes based on lecture material, a short group presentation in section, and midterm and final essays based on the readings. The readings can be pretty long and dry but you really only need a basic understanding for discussion, and you can pick which ones to go more in depth into for the midterm and final papers. Professor Lambert is also a great, engaging lecturer and goes at a good pace, and the material is interesting enough regardless. She is also very understanding and flexible, such as with recording lectures and explaining quiz questions, and she is a kind and approachable professor overall.
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This class was very interesting and very well structured. Professor Lambert has the collab site very well organized and it makes it easy to navigate through. Each week there were about 4-5 prerecorded lectures that usually were around 10 minutes. The readings were long and kind of dry. There was also a 5 question quiz each week that was easy if you watched the lectures. There were 3 essays each around 4-6 pages and a final answering two questions about 6 pages. Overall, I thought this was a very enjoyable class.

Really interesting class and pretty easy as far as history classes go. Lambert is my advisor so I may be a little biased, but I really enjoyed her as a lecturer. The material is fascinating, and the readings aren't too bad; grade comes from a midterm (IDs and essay split between two classes), two short papers, participation in discussion (part of which involved posting forums on Collab) and a final, all of which were pretty straightforward. I'd definitely recommend this class.

Definitely an interesting class. The professor is very good about leaving time for students to ask questions during lecture. Very organized professor / TA (Rachel Johnson). The tests are pretty easy as long as you took good notes. Coming to lecture is pretty essential for this class. There are two essays and two tests in this class - that's it, no hw or any busy work. To succeed, I would recommend having your essays checked by the TA during her office hours so that the structure follows a format that they like and your evidence is strong. Especially for the first essay! Honestly, if it weren't for my first essay grade, I could've gotten an A but literally because that one B for the first essay holding me back I got an A-. The tests were an easy A - A+.

The lectures were interesting and professor Lambert was clearly very passionate and knowledgeable. I found there to be a lot of reading and the exams and papers were graded harshly (by the TA, Rachael). Fortunately, the papers weren't too long (4-5 pages). The class is no work if you don't do the readings or just skim them which is probably enough to make a comment during the discussion section. However, I found that taking good notes on each of the readings really helped for the papers and exams. Overall, this class material was very fascinating and the workload really depends on what you put into it. Doing all the readings and working very hard, I got an A- in this class, just for a frame of reference.

Your grade is based completely on TA grading. I had Rachael who was really nice and helpful, but graded papers really harshly. There was an absurd amount of reading that you needed to have done in order to be able to participate in discussion for a grade. Prof Lambert is an awesome teacher, but really has no impact on your grade.

I enjoyed this class! Professor Lambert is great and is passionate about early modern Europe. I will admit lectures were boring at times, but that can be said for any class. Like many history classes, the TA can make or break the experience. Luckily Rachael, (the TA this semester) was great, but I don't think she will be TA-ing again.

Keep up with the readings and compile a master-list of each one with a summary, key points, author, etc. -- it'll really help with studying for the essay portions of the exams! There were two midterms (one was ID terms, one was an essay), two 4-5 page papers, participation, and the final exam (which is cumulative!).