I took Gantner's history of California class over the summer. The guy is an awesome lecturer with an expansive vocabulary. Very confident and knowledgeable. His political views are very left wing, and once or twice he digressed into full on rants. This became a little distracting for me as I am quite conservative. But Gantner is very respectful towards students, and never made anyone uncomfortable for disagreeing with him. He is hilarious as well, and a few of his bitter one liners had me dying.

As far as assignments, my class was not typical as Gantner was experiencing a family emergency at the time. Our grade ended up being comprised of a single paper, which I put a weekend into and finished with an A. I highly Gantner for anybody who enjoys strong lectures with a lot of humor on the side.

Cool professor. loves the dodgers,interesting class about California. Will learn nothing you haven't learned if you went to grade school in California.