In the most respectful way possible, this professor is not good. From the disorganized lectures to vague feedback on assignments, it feels like he's power-tripping most of the time. The only good thing about the class was the manageable workload. You'll only like this class if you're interested in the history of the Maghrib region of North Africa. Otherwise, it's not worth it. Not to mention that if you try to seek guidance/help from him on assignments, he will purposefully keep his advice vague because he wants you to 'come up with your own ideas' as if that's not the whole reason why you're trying to get help in the first place. I think this professor could benefit from actually doing his job.

Take this class if you are willing to show up to each one because your grade literally depends on it! Attendance is 30% of your grade and you sign in to verify your attendance in the beginning of each lecture. Professor Boum is passionate, I will credit him with this, and I found him to really invest his time to helping us succeed. He had office hours every day for nearly half of the quarter because he wanted us to meet and discuss our image proposal assignment. You would have to meet him until you got his approval on what topics you wanted to discuss for your final paper, which is 8 pages double spaced. The grading scheme is: 30% attendance, 30% reading responses due at 10 am before every lecture, 10% image proposal, and 30% final paper. The tricky thing about this class is really the deadlines. His reading responses are graded a bit harsh, but the lowest I got was a 9/10 so if you are looking for perfect scores, then I would advise you to really engage with the readings to receive it. I would skim through the readings and connect it back to my image and he would not leave feedback, but the consistency of my scores let me know to switch my approaches. No exams, which is amazing! Highly recommend this Professor.

Taken during covid online. He gave me an A in the class and on my final paper. The final was a 9 page policy proposal for one of the countries in north africa. There was some lack of clarity, Yet I feel like he deserves some slack in his transition to online. Take him. If you put in a reasonable amount of effort its an
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