Content was not very difficult but my TA graded very harshly based on her personal writing style preferences which made the class much harder. Class consisted of 2 essays, an essay midterm, and a lengthy final made up of 3 essays.

I definitely recommend taking this class with Professor Terraciano. There were 4 assignments the whole quarter, two essays (first one is worth 15% and second one is worth 25%) aside from the take-home midterm(worth 15% of your final grade) and take-home essay (worth 35% of your final grade) . I recommend Sofia Yazpik as a TA, she made the discussion section very useful and definitely helped to go over the readings. There are a lot of readings assigned but you can get away with not reading everything. For your essays most information you can be guided through the lecture slides which he also posts on BruinLearn after class. There are 4 main books for this class, two are free, and two you have to purchase but they are not expensive. I also feel that you can get away with not purchasing those two books and still doing good in the class. Overall, this is an easy GE.

For anyone looking for a GE that completes a historical analysis and the diversity requirement, I would recommend this course. Professor Terraciano is great and is truly passionate about his field of study. This class consisted of four essays: Essay 1, the midterm, Essay 2, and the final. However, the midterm and final were less formal essays in my opinion, and were more just a response to questions, images, etc. Participation in discussions is also included in the final grade. Although discussion sections are required, you do not need to go to lectures since he records them and uploads them to BruinLearn. Although I went to every lecture I wouldn't say it is entirely necessary especially since the recordings are offered online. Despite this, the last lecture was very helpful for the final and I do not think he uploaded a recording for that lecture.
Besides the essays, the professor assigned weekly readings. I started by reading all of the readings every week but found there were just too many and I ended up not reading them at all. I didn't find the readings to be entirely necessary since we talked about them during discussions and sometimes in lectures. For me, I simply just read for the essay prompt when essays were assigned. Although this may have taken me a bit more time, I thought it was better than reading the entirety of the readings every week.
For this class, the essays are graded by the TA only. Although I do not know much about all of the TAs, Sofia Yazpik was great and incredibly helpful. She was willing to read your thesis and even look at an outline for your essay. I would highly recommend her.
Overall, my experience in this class was pretty positive and if you are looking for a fairly easy GE, take this course.

Easy GE and Professor Terraciano is great. He truly wants students to succeed in his class, and the workload is manageable (not counting the excessive amount of reading). But, I would recommend not worrying about doing all of the readings since you can just look through the specific excerpts that apply to your essay prompt. There were only 2 essays, a midterm, and a final for this class and the prompts applied to what was said in lecture, discussion, and the readings. I would say that discussions are pretty important for this class since they are a part of your participation grade and they were the most helpful for essays. All of the essays were graded very fairly, which depends on your TA. My TA (Sofia Yazpik) was amazing and I highly recommend her as she will help fix/reconstruct your essay theses and look at an outline to provide comments. Overall, this class was great and I definitely recommend it.

Overall, I enjoyed this class and I liked my professor and TA. Terraciano seems to be passionate when doing his lectures and he's nice. He always used slides and would upload them to bruin learn beforehand so you could follow along or go back to slides during lectures. These lectures would go over the general information from the New History white textbook and were helpful to understanding what happened. He would also show lots of pictures of places and people during lectures and list primary source places for certain topics if you wanted to look more into that. The primary sources he listed in lectures are also helpful for essays btw since all of the essays ask you to incorporate primary sources. I liked that he didn't go too fast during lectures so I actually had time to write stuff down in my notes, but even if I missed something, I could go back and look at the slides he uploaded. Especially when he would start showing pictures, I used that as my time to write down more stuff. He also records lectures too so if you're absent, it's not hard to get caught up. My grade was based off essays and they were all take home and there were no in person exams or anything like that. Usually, he would post them Friday evening and make them due Monday by midnight.

One of the biggest downsides would probably be the amount of reading, but I didn't do all of the readings in time lol. When the time would come for essays, I would catch up or re-read stuff. I also stopped reading the New History text since that's what he talked about during lectures, but you can still go back if there's stuff you want to review. Discussions were also helpful for understanding and knowing what happened. For my discussion, you were supposed to be prepared and do the readings beforehand, but if you're not able to finish all the readings in time, you can just talk more about the stuff you actually did read. If you go to his office hours, he might mention some good sources too and can help you, but a lot of the times, he would ramble on something about history and have intellectual conversations with curious ppl so your TA office hours might be better for understanding the material while his might be better for getting sources.

This man is so sweet, understanding, and the most accomodating ever. We only had 4 essays total, 1 was considered a midterm, the other one was a final an dthe other two were just in between. prompts were not difficult especially if you attend lecture. The readings are pretty easy to understand, I would love to take another class with this professor I highly recommend

HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend this class along with Professor Terraciano. Funny and engaging teacher and will often provide extensions on papers. Lectures are in person but are also recorded and uploaded quickly. The class material is super interesting and gives you a new perspective on early Latin American Natives history (The truth about Columbus and the following colonizers for example). The class consists purely of about four essays I believe and the prompts are released a week to two weeks before they are due. I got an A on each paper! A quick tip that helped me: there are three textbooks, but what made life super easy for me was just reading specifically for my prompt instead of reading the entire textbook material.

Prof. Terraciano is amazing!! His lectures are really engaging and it's clear that he knows a lot about what he's teaching + he's really passionate about his subject! He's very accommodating and my TA Chase was super helpful as well.
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Professor Terraciano is the best professor I had. He is super kind, understanding, and really cares about his students. He is easy to communicate with and is passionate about what he teaches. His class consists of so much reading and only four essays which is doable. He was also a lifesaver in the class and would hand out extensions and an easy final during the TA strikes. I definitely recommend him!

TL/DR: There's a reason why this professor gets such good reviews. The class is simply designed, the material is very interesting to learn (albeit some of it is incredibly depressing), and Terraciano is a great professor who actively cares for his students. This class, although affected by strikes in Fall 22, still managed to be enlightening.

For my full description/grade overview/etc, go here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15vILblHwWrnV7KnB-sOFzTRnQE2QPA7nmHxj4gdNKBU/edit?usp=sharing