This class is mainly based off of the midterm and final exam. Before each exam, there is a study guide that is identical to the exam, but only a select few of the questions on the study guide will be chosen on the test. It mainly stems from the lectures in class. Would not take this class again.

Take this class if you want to make friends and if you want your writing to get 10000% better :)

Having read all the negative reviews on this website, I was fully prepared to drop the course, but I needed a History GE to graduate and my friend convinced me to at least show up on the first day.

I am so grateful I didn't listen to these reviews. I'm not saying they're not true, but they're from over 3 years ago (at the time of this review) and let me tell you, the person they describe in their reviews is not the Professor Camacho that I know now. It's possible after all the bad reviews, he got a lot better. People can change in 3 years!

Anyway, this class was super easy. And being a graduating senior, I am lazy as hell. Like, uber to class when I live within walking distance kinda lazy. So if I'm saying it's easy, you honestly have to actually not be trying at all to think it's hard. If you like numbers, the average for the midterm was a 96.

Professor Camacho usually takes the first 15 minutes of class to ask if anyone has announcements and to chat with the class. His lectures are pretty straightforward. He tells you which keywords you'll need to know for the midterm/final, and there are usually 3 or 4 per lecture. He is literally telling you these are the only things you'll be tested on. Plus 2 of the lectures, we watched Godzilla; 1 lecture, we had a visit from indigenous leaders on canoes; 1 lecture, we had a visit from an Asian playwright. That means 2 weeks out of the quarter wasn't even lectured material.

Regarding the TAs: My TA, Michelle Chang was super nice and helpful - and a VERY lenient grader. She didn't care about dates or specific names, just that you grasped the general concept. She really made me think about the significance of all this history which made me connect with the material more instead of just memorizing it.

If you're torn about taking a class with him, do what I did and go the first day to see for yourself.