Tests are difficult but if you show up for class you can easily get an A, he's very straightforward, look at the lectures and you can easily get an A

Professor McBride is a really interesting and funny teacher. I loved going to his lectures because he's so nice and makes the class enjoyable. He doesn't record the lectures but posts the slides online the next day. He thinks students who go to class do better. Sometimes he mentions things that aren't on the slides, so it's good to be there. He also offers 2 options for extra credit, but you choose only 1.

For the class, we read three very short books that went along with the midterm, a paper, and a final paper. The midterm was in a blue book, and we could choose between 20 multiple-choice questions and a short essay or 10 identification questions and a short essay. The answers to the multiple-choice questions were all in the slides. We also had to write two 4-5 page papers, one regular paper and one final paper.

Professor McBride is a great teacher, and I would definitely take his class again.

I never really went to lecture or thoroughly read the readings, but I found that I was still able to get the information as the discussion section really gets into the course material. I took Danielle Hanzalik as a TA, and if you have a chance to take her, then I really recommend her. She was super understanding of my situation and kept my attention, especially since discussion sections were two hours. The final exam has you defining 6 terms and writing 2 essays, but the study guide prepares you really well.

The class material itself is very interesting and the workload is very reasonable, but the professors can be hit or miss. This quarter we focused on the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, and French colonialism. My favorite professors were Rothberg and McBride; I found their lectures genuinely very engaging and interesting. Rothberg’s approach to learning about the Holocaust honestly really fascinated me and I looked forward to his lectures the most. While I could tell Prof. Sengul was knowledgeable in her subject, her lectures were extremely dense and difficult to follow and were very hard to understand considering most of us had little background knowledge on Armenia.

Besides that, the assignments (which are mostly short written work) are very doable and helpful in understanding the content.
I’ve generally heard good things about most of the TA’s, and I had Yair (fall) and Stephen (winter) both of which I really liked. Both are very understanding and genuinely care about their students. Two hour discussions can be pretty tedious, but I felt comfortable enough to participate and we had plenty of breaks/group activities to change up the dynamic of the class. I recommend taking the discussion later in the week, as most written work is due before class, and that gives you more time to complete it. I also ended up taking the Nazi Hunting seminar with McBride in the spring and loved that class - easy workload, interesting topics discussed, and overall the professor has a lot of professional experience that is very interesting to learn about - 10/10 recommend.

I love this cluster, but it is a lot of reading and essay writing. It's super interesting and educational, so if you want to get humanities GEs out of the way I would definitely take it.

This class was good. VERY interesting content, except I think how they organized it was really bad. You learned about each of the 3 cases each week, they each would get their own lecture. It was hard to keep your knowledge organized learning about so many heavy topics all at the same time. But it was still good. LOTS OF READING. LOTS OF WRITING. ADVERTISES NO FINAL, THERE IS A WRITING FINAL. If you’re interested in history, I would recommend it, but be ready for the absolute overload of information you’re gonna get, and for the kind of insane amount of reading / writing that’s ahead.

tough essays. easy multiple choice exams. a lotttt of info on the slides if u don't go to class.