Professor

Caroline Ford

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Workload 3.3/ 5
Helpfulness 3.8/ 5
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2018 - This is a pretty straightforward GE. Lectures are really boring and can sometimes put you to sleep, but attendance isn't mandatory. However, it is in your best interest to go to class even though Professor Ford does post her slides online, there is not much useful information on them as most of her information is oral. The book is really helpful, but it can be overwhelming at times as the readings are a lot. Apart from the book you have primary source readings like speeches which she makes available to you. The class consists of two essays (one on Marx's Communist Manifesto and Ghandi's Indian Home Rule) they are pretty easy and graded fairly. The class also consists of one page weekly reading responses which depend on how your TA wants them (they usually just ask you a question to respond to about the primary source reading for that week). We also had super easy map quizzes which they give you a printout for and tell you the countries and capitals you'll be quizzed on in lecture. It is crucial you go to discussion, you can miss lecture, but if you miss more than three sections you fail the class- Professor Ford is very strict on this and the TA will repeat this to you. Overall it was a good class and I enjoyed learning about the history. Class breakdown: midterm 20% final 30% weekly responses and two papers 30% map quizzes and section participation 20% I have physical copy of the book required for this class Western Civilizations: The History & Their Culture, Volume C: French Revolution to the Present 19th Edition (W. W Norton 2017) for $70. Email me ************* if you're interested.
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Easiness 2.9/ 5
Clarity 4.5/ 5
Workload 3.0/ 5
Helpfulness 3.7/ 5
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2022 - I was originally a bit worried to take this course because i had never taken an upper div history course and prof Ford did not have many reviews; now that I have finished the class, I am SO glad that I did! I found the material to be quite interesting, even though I originally had very little knowledge/interest in France, I now feel like a mini expert in the field and have been able to talk about the topic with others which is really cool lol. The class is structured pretty easy with this grading scheme: 15% attendance/ participation, 40% take home midterm + in class ID Quiz(2 900 word papers), and 45% take home final (2 900 word papers again). The paper prompts were nice because we were given multiple prompts to choose from, so you could choose your paper topics on things that you had more notes on/ knew the material better. I stressed out a lot about the In class ID Quiz, but that really was not bad either as prof Ford included like 10 different topics that we could choose from to ID, so if you didn't know some things, you could just choose a different topic. The painting ID wasn't too tough either cuz the paintings were shown on a ton of slides and you did not have to provide much information. The papers in general were not very difficult either, it was a bit tough to stay under 900 words, and the Prof's citation policy is kinda weird, but honestly nothing too difficult. The one thing I will say for this class though: GO TO ALL THE LECTURES. Prof. Ford DOES NOT upload any bruincast or recordings of lectures, and the slides have minimal to no information on them, so if you want to do well on the papers, you absolutely must go to lecture( plus attendance is 15% so you kinda have to anyways lol). The professor is a very good lecturer, gives me the "classic history professor" vibes, ngl at times the lectures were a tad bit boring, but definitely manageable since theyre only 50 min. Overall definitely recommend the course, pretty easy A if you show up to the lectures and do a bit of research for the papers.
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