Excellent professor! She is a very engaging lecturer and made the subject interesting for me to learn about. It was easy to follow along during lecture since she connected everything to a broader theme. It is important that you talk with your TA about expectations for the essay's since each one wants something a little different. Overall, I would recommend this class if you like French history.

If you're a STEM major like me, it's possible you will get very bored in this class. The only info she puts on the slides are few word bullet points, so you actually have to pay attention to what she is saying.

There is only 1 midterm, 1 final, and a project where you have to design a poster, drawing, poem, or some form of creation that represents a historical moment she went over, which was pretty easy.

For the midterm and final, you get the whole class period to write hefty paragraphs explaining key terms (choose 3/4 out of 7ish), which kind of reminded me of AP exams tbh. The grading kind of depends on your TA, mine gave me an A- on the midterm which I was shocked by bc I thought i ate that up, but he said it was bc i didn't include enough information from the textbook (which everyone complained about lol). However, I went to his office hours and he gave me some points back and told me how to better on the final, where I did end up getting an A.

Overall, not a bad teacher and class. I didn't try too hard or ever read the texts/textbook until the final, so don't be scared to take this class, especially if it's your thing (unlike me).

class was easy, professor was not the best. She was a hard grader and not very clear when It came to assignments. if you put in the work you will do fine

This is an easy GE, but it is not a walk in the park. Nasiali goes pretty quick in lecture and if you zone out for 10 minutes you might miss 30 years of history. Lecture slides are not posted, and only the lecture audio is put online, no video. You have to take good notes to be prepared for the midterm and final. I went to every class and I think it would be hard to do well if you didn’t. Midterm and final are sit-down exams where you just write about some of the terms from the class, which isn’t bad as long as you have a kind TA grading. Overall good GE but it seems like she is trying to make it tougher.

A great GE, the lectures are to the point and move at a good pace. The professor makes an effort to be personable and available. The workload is extremely minimal, there are textbook readings and short sources each week (I found that you didn't ever have to read them to be successful as she covers in lecture what she wants you to get out of it). We had one midterm where you wrote on three key terms of your choice out of a larger bank of terms and this was the same format for the final. The final was not cumulative. I would recommend anyone take this for a GE, it was my class that required the least work and least amount of my attention and still got my highest grade of the quarter in it.

This class was such a chill GE. The professor was genuinely so nice and passionate. She doesn't post any lecture slides, which sucks, but she has audio recordings of all the lectures. Most of the time, your TA truly decides your grades based on participation and midterm and final grades. Midterm and final were super easy; I just had to memorize key terms and connect them in short answer responses. As long as you attend the discussion and glance at the primary sources for the week, you are honestly guaranteed participation points. Overall, I highly recommend it if you want an easy GE for a packed quarter with a super sweet professor who genuinely cares about your learning.