HIST 147A
American Social History, 1750 to 1860
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These evaluations for jacqueline Braitman are absurdly old and outdated. She has not even lectured at ucla in 13 years. In her 12 years in the history department and summer sessions, I happen to know from an admin that she taught more classes than any other lecturer in the history department while she was there. She took on courses that other professors taught for decades to perfect while she had weeks to gather curriculum materials. She had to construct these courses on the fly as she taught them which takes a lot of bravery and knowledge. There is a huge learning curve to becoming a satisfactory lecturer and by having to teach a new class almost every term, there's less room to fine-tune the course. Furthermore, the only people who ever complain about professors are people who hate them (or their politics) but in fact when I watched professor Braitman teach, students loved her. These reviews are damaging to a person's career beyond the university. I highly recommend you, BruinWalk, have a time limit on posted reviews once teachers leave the institution because this is the first link available when googling Jacqueline's name. Thank you for your consideration. Go bruins!
These evaluations for jacqueline Braitman are absurdly old and outdated. She has not even lectured at ucla in 13 years. In her 12 years in the history department and summer sessions, I happen to know from an admin that she taught more classes than any other lecturer in the history department while she was there. She took on courses that other professors taught for decades to perfect while she had weeks to gather curriculum materials. She had to construct these courses on the fly as she taught them which takes a lot of bravery and knowledge. There is a huge learning curve to becoming a satisfactory lecturer and by having to teach a new class almost every term, there's less room to fine-tune the course. Furthermore, the only people who ever complain about professors are people who hate them (or their politics) but in fact when I watched professor Braitman teach, students loved her. These reviews are damaging to a person's career beyond the university. I highly recommend you, BruinWalk, have a time limit on posted reviews once teachers leave the institution because this is the first link available when googling Jacqueline's name. Thank you for your consideration. Go bruins!
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I absolutely love Professor Dubois. She is so knowledgeable and passionate about what she is teaching. Granted, I had her for M147D (History of Women in the U.S.) which is her specialty, so I can only speak for her with regards to this class. She is like your quirky, hip grandmother who's very frank and says the most hilarious things. Reading these, I've seen the most common complaints are her lectures. Many of these people are correct: her powerpoints are not very helpful to note taking, because they are mostly images. However, her lecture itself is actually pretty easy to take notes from, as she has a very organized outline in front of her and she doesn't talk very fast. I didn't find her lectures boring in the slightest, but 1) I am interested in Women's History and 2) SHE is super passionate about it, which makes the whole thing much more interesting. This could (potentially) be different in her other courses or if you aren't interested in the subject material at all. I wrote both of the short papers (10% each) and the midterm essay the morning of, and got an A- on all three. (So if you put in just a little bit more work on them, the A shouldn't be that difficult). The textbook is interesting, and it's not entirely necessary to read every chapter because the lectures are very thorough. LOVE LOVE LOVE her, super recommend, if you're at all interested in women's issues or history, or need an extra upperdivision that isn't too much work or reading at all, this class is awesome and super rewarding.
I absolutely love Professor Dubois. She is so knowledgeable and passionate about what she is teaching. Granted, I had her for M147D (History of Women in the U.S.) which is her specialty, so I can only speak for her with regards to this class. She is like your quirky, hip grandmother who's very frank and says the most hilarious things. Reading these, I've seen the most common complaints are her lectures. Many of these people are correct: her powerpoints are not very helpful to note taking, because they are mostly images. However, her lecture itself is actually pretty easy to take notes from, as she has a very organized outline in front of her and she doesn't talk very fast. I didn't find her lectures boring in the slightest, but 1) I am interested in Women's History and 2) SHE is super passionate about it, which makes the whole thing much more interesting. This could (potentially) be different in her other courses or if you aren't interested in the subject material at all. I wrote both of the short papers (10% each) and the midterm essay the morning of, and got an A- on all three. (So if you put in just a little bit more work on them, the A shouldn't be that difficult). The textbook is interesting, and it's not entirely necessary to read every chapter because the lectures are very thorough. LOVE LOVE LOVE her, super recommend, if you're at all interested in women's issues or history, or need an extra upperdivision that isn't too much work or reading at all, this class is awesome and super rewarding.
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