HIST 187C
Variable Topics Historiography Proseminar: Europe
Description: Seminar, three hours. Proseminar on historiography involving close reading and critical discussion of secondary scholarship and primary sources on selected topics. Reading, discussion, and analytical writing culminating in one or several historiographical essays. May be repeated once for credit. P/NP or letter grading.
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Spring 2024 - Professor Ghervas is very kind and organized and gives everyone a chance to participate. She also organized an end-of-year field trip to the Wende Museum, which was super fascinating and a stellar way to end the course. The course includes an oral and written report, which are manageable thanks to Professor Ghervas’s clear and precise guidelines. Additionally, a final historiographical paper challenges you to engage deeply with the readings. This class is rigorous, and Professor Ghervas has high expectations, expecting that students thoroughly engage with the course material and participate. As a history major, one of the aspects of history that I find most compelling is how it serves as a tool for identity creation. This course delved deeply into this theme, exploring how the RUS-UKR war is also a “history war,” where certain narratives are marshaled to justify violence and militarization. I highly recommend this course if you're looking for a challenge and a great professor.
Spring 2024 - Professor Ghervas is very kind and organized and gives everyone a chance to participate. She also organized an end-of-year field trip to the Wende Museum, which was super fascinating and a stellar way to end the course. The course includes an oral and written report, which are manageable thanks to Professor Ghervas’s clear and precise guidelines. Additionally, a final historiographical paper challenges you to engage deeply with the readings. This class is rigorous, and Professor Ghervas has high expectations, expecting that students thoroughly engage with the course material and participate. As a history major, one of the aspects of history that I find most compelling is how it serves as a tool for identity creation. This course delved deeply into this theme, exploring how the RUS-UKR war is also a “history war,” where certain narratives are marshaled to justify violence and militarization. I highly recommend this course if you're looking for a challenge and a great professor.
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Fall 2021 - The class overall was pretty good! The class taught me a lot about the drinking and eating habbit during the interwar period in those "totalitarian states". I highly recommended taking his class in the furture. Professor Griffith was nice and engaged. 10/10 for this class. UCLA needed more professor like him that really passionate in his field.
Fall 2021 - The class overall was pretty good! The class taught me a lot about the drinking and eating habbit during the interwar period in those "totalitarian states". I highly recommended taking his class in the furture. Professor Griffith was nice and engaged. 10/10 for this class. UCLA needed more professor like him that really passionate in his field.
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Winter 2024 - Prof. Jovanovic was nice enough but I was just pretty bored by the content of this course. Every week was a new lecture topic and then 2 students were assigned to deliver a 45 min. to 1 hr. presentation on the prior week's topic and then facilitate a discussion and analysis of the content. The content itself just seemed super pointless and abstract and he assigned 80-150 pages of reading per week that seemed sometimes impossible to get through. However, the course was manageable and if you put the time in you will get an A. Just wasn't my cup of tea, content-wise.
Winter 2024 - Prof. Jovanovic was nice enough but I was just pretty bored by the content of this course. Every week was a new lecture topic and then 2 students were assigned to deliver a 45 min. to 1 hr. presentation on the prior week's topic and then facilitate a discussion and analysis of the content. The content itself just seemed super pointless and abstract and he assigned 80-150 pages of reading per week that seemed sometimes impossible to get through. However, the course was manageable and if you put the time in you will get an A. Just wasn't my cup of tea, content-wise.
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Fall 2024 - Professor Nasiali is a great professor. She is very energetic, helpful, and fair. She describes this class as a graduate level course, and she's not kidding: the readings are extremely difficult. However, she is extremely helpful and understands the difficulty of the course. I was not personally interested in the subject matter of racial capitalism, which is mostly what the class focuses on, but I still got a lot out of it. Not for the faint of heart, but I would recommend.
Fall 2024 - Professor Nasiali is a great professor. She is very energetic, helpful, and fair. She describes this class as a graduate level course, and she's not kidding: the readings are extremely difficult. However, she is extremely helpful and understands the difficulty of the course. I was not personally interested in the subject matter of racial capitalism, which is mostly what the class focuses on, but I still got a lot out of it. Not for the faint of heart, but I would recommend.
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