Professor Myers is a fantastic lecturer, and very approachable. However, I thought that the workload for this class was slightly much for only 4 units. The grade consisted of 7 weekly reflection papers (option to do 7 out of 10 weeks available), participation (a mix of in person attendance and online discussion boards our quarter), as well as a final project. I would suggest to start the final project early as it is rather daunting: could be any format you would like- (a paper, a podcast, etc) but it had to be about 10-20 pages in written length, with preference for the higher number. Overall I loved Professor Myers but with the strike and everything else occurring this quarter, I found the workload to be a bit much for a lower division class.

Hands down best professor I've had at UCLA. Go to his office hours. Engage with the readings.

Dr. Myers is a fantastic professor, and you are very lucky if you have the opportunity to take a class with him. GO to office hours!!!!! It is a bit intimidating but very very much worth it. He has so much knowledge to share. He is a very accomplished professor in terms of research, but also cares about undergraduates to a degree that I had previously not encountered at UCLA.

David Myers is a nice guy. There are a total of 7 reflections needed to be done with one final project. The readings for each week are pretty heavy but just pick one to write about for the reflection and youll be fine. The lectures are 2 hours long and are slightly boring at times the class is mostly just about historical theories and methods. There is a discussion depending on your TA it will be interesting or not. The TA also grades your reflections so depending on which one you get they will determine your grade. The Final project is pretty heavy you get to pick between a paper, podcast or video discussing what you learned in class. The project can be a group one if you do a paper by yourself it has to be 10-10 pages. If you chose to do a podcast you still have to do a paper just a smaller one. Overall pretty heavy course considering its a lower division class but it is doable just try doing your work ahead of time and youll do great!

Truly a different experience from what I am used to for a history class. For anyone not acquainted with philosophy, the first classes can seem daunting, but it gets better throughout the quarter. The course consisted of weekly reading accompanied by a reflection. No midterm was given. The final had to reflect a topic we learned in the course and go be presented in various mediums. Overall a challenging class but Professor Myers was very knowledgeable and well spoken that ease any confusion.

I'm very grateful that I was able to take one of Prof. Myers' courses during my time at UCLA. He is an outstanding academic and it's quite obvious that he is a pillar of modern theoretical history. That being said, the standards expected of his students can be quite overbearing. There can be a range of 4-6 readings each week, all of which are difficult reads (especially in earlier weeks) and they most often have dozens of pages to work through - if you manage to read and understand every reading I have no doubt you'd be successful in his course, but that can be a tough task. Myers is an amazing lecturer and is very insightful, however (for the lectures) attendance is not tracked and is not necessary. I'd recommend going to class, but you can honestly skip every lecture so long as you read and properly understand the readings (his lectures help you understand them); what you do have to do is attend the discussion portions of the class, which are run by TAs (we didn't have any discussion periods for the last half of the quarter due to the strike happening, but it counts as your participation grade so its important to go to each one). The most common grades you receive are from uploading reading responses, which are based on the weekly readings; synthesizing multiple points from the many assigned readings is a great way to ensure that you convey understanding of the material, but you need to be concise and formulate your thoughts well - both the TAs and Myers nitpick your writing on the basis of grammar, punctuation, what you include and don't include, or whatever else they may think of, and they don't really give feedback either so you have to be retrospective if you want to improve. Overall, this class changed the way that I approach thinking about history and is absolutely a fantastic class to take so long as you put in the effort and motivate yourself to digest the material as much as you reasonably can.