Same as everyone else, the prof is sooo kind and honestly just a really great guy. He has office hours twice a week where you can go and ask whatever and also just chat with him. You can tell he's so so passionate about the course and it really showed that he knew things were wack with covid and so changed a lot of the course readings and final +midterm around.

In general, yes there is a lot of reading for this class, but if you figure out how to get around it it's really not bad. I didn't do any of the readings beyond like week 4 because I figured out that you only really need to read the sections relevant to the essays he assigns. When i took this class it was adjusted per covid so our grades were based on 4 essay scores (2 regular essays, one midterm, and one final). and I only did the readings needed for each essay rather than reading all the assigned sections each week. his lectures are very helpful and give you direct content to write about in the essays. you can tell he's really accommodating and inclusive and really makes a point to say that even if you aren't a good writer, your grade isn't based on how good you write but rather how much you understand the material.

i consider myself pretty interested in history and yes at times it is a tiny bit boring but overall was very interesting to read about and even more engaging to hear the prof's lectures. you can tell he's really woke and really wants to make sure that we understand how racist and imperialist history connects to today and i loved that he included that in the course. overall would recommend, i took this as a first year and was scared to do bad given it was my first quarter but the prof is kind, content is good, reading isn't heavy until you figure out what works for you, and grading is fair.

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[Covid or distance learning]
Grade Aspect:
100%* determined by TA. Hopefully you get a nice and engaging TA. (shoutout to David F. Castaneda)
-2 essays
-1 take-home midterm (an essay lol)
-1 final (3 parts), also take-home (all essay-type responses)

Reading...of variable lengths...for better or for worse...
Oh my goodness...there was so much to read. Of course you technically didn't need to read it all since the only reason you needed to read was for writing the essays.
An overview:
W1: 8 readings
W2: 3 "
W3: 9 "
W4: 10 "
W5: 19 "
W6: 16 "
W7 and 8 since it was thanksgiving: 25 "
W9: 10 "
W10: 5 "
Some weeks are 100+ pages total, some of them are much much shorter.
My advice is probably to read what is interesting and what you think you will need for the essays, which is easier said than done.
(this advice might be useless for in-person learning)
Lectures were pretty helpful in some essays but in general they are all from one of the textbooks so it was definitely boring to a degree. (there are 4 texts) Though it's cool that he plays music at the beginning and sometimes at the end of lectures.

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While this class was overall pretty easy, I did not enjoy the lectures as much as I hoped I would. I felt like there was not enough provided background knowledge in order to fully understand the primary sources. It seemed like Professor. Terraciano was just recounting his own visits and not actually teaching us the history. It was super tempting to skip lectures because even if I paid attention there wasn't anything to actually write down for notes that would make sense. However, there is a lot of prep for the test, so if you memorize that and do well in section you will be fine.

This was a very interesting class overall and Terraciano was clearly very knowledgable about what he is teaching. Overall, the class the pretty easy consisting of 2 papers, a midterm, and a final. Both papers were graded by TAs and it seemed like they were fairly lenient in grading. For both the midterm and the final Terraciano gives out a list of prompts and vocabulary terms to study from which a subset appears on the exam. In terms of lectures, they were often very interesting and well put together, however this is where one of my primary disappointments about the class comes from. Despite being a history class, Terraciano tries to integrate his political/ideological views into the class in areas that bear little relevance to the colonial history we were studying. It was disappointing to me that a he felt like it was necessary to imbue his lectures with his own political biases rather than spending that wasted time sharing more of his deep understanding of the class material with students.

I absolutely loved Prof Terraciano. He is very passionate about history and cares a lot about his students. There is a lot of reading involved but they're not hard. Would definitely recommend taking his class.

This was a pretty easy GE. It is a decent amount of writing, but most of it was just general regurgitation of the readings. The subject of the class is pretty interesting, and Professor Terraciano is a great guy. The lectures could sometimes get pretty boring though, as a lot of the time all the events and time periods we covered pointed to the same theme or made the same point, which made going to lecture seem not that useful.

Pros:
- Super easy class
- Professor is extremely thorough, engaging, and clear
- My TA (Karime) was a fair grader and extremely helpful
- Workload is ridiculously light
Cons:
- Don't really need to go to class if you read the textbooks
- Only needed to read out of the two course reader, the other books aren't really necessary besides exams and papers

This class is somewhat interesting, but the lectures are so boring and dry. There's almost no point in going to lecture because you don't need the material from lecture on the paper and he also gives you the questions to the midterm and final beforehand. Discussions are basically just a group discussion about the readings for the week (which are very long) but it helps to prepare you for the papers. He gave us the questions for the midterm before so all you have to do for that is memorize what he gives you and for the final, he gave us a bunch of essay questions to review and 4 of them showed up on the final (but you only had to write 2 or 3 of them I think). I would say it's a boring GE, but as long as you do the work then you'll be fine even if you don't go to lecture.

I took this class having seen all the reviews and expecting for it to be an easy A for me as an incoming freshmen, needing a GE. It surprisingly an easy class which may be TA dependent, my TA Amanda Washington was very nice and did not grade harshly. The midterm is memorization of a couple of keywords and short essays and the final is an essay, which are all given to you beforehand! About a week before any exam/essay was due he would give you the prompts so you could outline your essay walk in stress free and write the essay~also my TA had us make outlines and go over points in discussion. The content is not very interesting to me (to a history major yes !) but Professor Terraciano is literally the sweetest professor willing to answer any questions, encourages visits to his office hours, understanding of any personal issues, and just reminds you of your dad. I would highly recommend taking this class with him!