Like the person before me said, Alexander puts a powerpoint slide up on the projector and talks about it for a good 30 minutes each lecture. I only went to one lecture and then realized it was pointless. The way to get an A in this class is to first, go to every single discussion section. A lot of your grade is dependent upon your participation in section, and your TA will thoroughly discuss the readings and various topics that Alexander attempted to discuss that week. The second thing you should do is go to your TA's office hours--I went to my TA's OH a few times and he told me exactly how he would grade the midterm/paper/final and pretty much told me what I needed to write to get a good grade. Your whole grade is basically dependent on your TA, so don't worry too much about what Professor Alexander is doing and focus mainly on what your TA talks about/looks for in a paper.

I took Professor Alexander's History 20 class for a GE. The lectures are very boring and the hour and 15 minutes drags on. Bring your laptop if you want to type your notes. He puts up a picture on the screen then just drones on about the topic, so pick and choose what you want to write down. The textbook is very helpful, since a lot of the material is straight from it.

That being said, the discussions are pretty interesting, depending on your TA. You get some pretty good debates about past cultures and philosophies and how they can relate to current events. Also, the paper is fair, they give you ample time to prepare and lots of guidance if you go to office hours. The tests are also alright. You have to memorize a ton of useless IDs (100 or so), and he'll give you about 8 to define. Then there's some essays on the tests too, but you can pretty much guess what's going to be asked. Try to avoid his class if you can, but if you enroll in it, it's not the end of the world. I got an A, you can too.