HIUS 2001

I highly recommend this course for anyone who is a history major or needs to fulfill the disciplines requirement. There is one paper, a midterm, and a final. But other than that, there is no other work to turn in. Going to lecture is a must, as well as a discussion section. There are identifications given during the lecture and found during the reading that the final and midterm are based upon. The discussion section is based upon reading a few documents (under 30 minutes). There are two additional books assigned throughout the course. Reading them helps, but you can make it with a decent grade without touching them. I read the first, skimmed the second, and ended with an A-. Alan is a great lecturer and made the material interesting and easy to listen to. He can be somewhat of a tough grader, but include as many details as possible on the exams and edit your paper thoroughly. #tCFfall22

I thought it was a very interesting class but I would make sure you're interested in the topic. The class is lecture style and a lot of the class is based on your TA. My TA was very good so I enjoyed it. Reading isn't too bad if you like the topic. IDs are kinda annoying to do but if you do them each class instead of waiting until an exam it helps a lot. The only downside is there aren't that many grades so you have to take each assignment pretty seriously. Overall I really recommend the class and think Taylor was really interesting and pretty entertaining.

This was my first history course at UVA and was definitely a great one to start with. Taylor is a true historian and you read the books he's written in the course. The course is solely focused on IDs, like most history classes at UVA and if you know those in depth, you'll be good for the exam. My TA Ethan was super chill and made the readings interesting. You need to do the readings because you are tested on IDs from the books but they weren't bad - I highly recommend finding an online PDF version so you can command F terms during the exams, which are all online at home and very writing intensive. For the papers, he has a very strict writing guide that you NEED to follow to do well. You can't use any form of "to be" which is a little excessive in my opinion but definitely made me a better writer. Overall great general history class, similar to APUSH so that helped me and I recommend to fulfill a requirement or for people looking to get into history.