Professor
Frank Higbie
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Spring 2018 - I enjoyed this class. It was pretty much a review of the last part of AP US History, with a few lectures of some of the most recent history. Higbie is a good lecturer, but I didn't really feel like the lectures were relevant for the exams. There's one midterm and a final, both online "take home" and open book. However, they were quite difficult. Much of the material was little details from the textbooks rather than bigger themes or things we discussed in lecture. Discussion sections are mandatory for this class, but the TAs are nice and are engaging. Homework for the class is easy, just a 250 word response each week and a 5 page paper on how a moment in history has affected your current day life. Overall I liked the class and would take it again.
Spring 2018 - I enjoyed this class. It was pretty much a review of the last part of AP US History, with a few lectures of some of the most recent history. Higbie is a good lecturer, but I didn't really feel like the lectures were relevant for the exams. There's one midterm and a final, both online "take home" and open book. However, they were quite difficult. Much of the material was little details from the textbooks rather than bigger themes or things we discussed in lecture. Discussion sections are mandatory for this class, but the TAs are nice and are engaging. Homework for the class is easy, just a 250 word response each week and a 5 page paper on how a moment in history has affected your current day life. Overall I liked the class and would take it again.
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Fall 2020 - Prof Higbie was probably the only Professor I had this quarter who was genuinely caring and sensitive for the student's well-being during the pandemic. The course was on "Re-Imagining the Post-Pandemic Economy" and I found it engrossing to have discussions about inequality and injustice in the US, and how the pandemic has shed new light on issues that used to not get talked about as much. He encouraged conversation among the students, beyond that of the course material, and I always had a good time in the course. It met only bi-weekly, which was really nice because there was lots of time to complete readings, but I loved the class so much I wish it could have met more! If you see his F.T. Higbie for any Fiat Lux you see, definitely take it. Excited to take one of his other courses in the Labor Studies department one day.
Fall 2020 - Prof Higbie was probably the only Professor I had this quarter who was genuinely caring and sensitive for the student's well-being during the pandemic. The course was on "Re-Imagining the Post-Pandemic Economy" and I found it engrossing to have discussions about inequality and injustice in the US, and how the pandemic has shed new light on issues that used to not get talked about as much. He encouraged conversation among the students, beyond that of the course material, and I always had a good time in the course. It met only bi-weekly, which was really nice because there was lots of time to complete readings, but I loved the class so much I wish it could have met more! If you see his F.T. Higbie for any Fiat Lux you see, definitely take it. Excited to take one of his other courses in the Labor Studies department one day.
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