I appreciate that this was Professor Ghervas' first time teaching at UCLA, but honestly I was really disappointed. I signed up for the class really excited to learn about peace and war in Europe, but was quickly met with the fact that this woman has very specific beliefs and preconceptions about Europe which she wanted to pass on to her students, thinking outside the lines here or contradicting her made her upset. One major thing that the professor repeatedly brought up was strong anti-Russian sentiments, you could tell her positions on the current war in Ukraine and she was not open to discussion to challenge this position at all. Throughout the whole course she would continue to slip in her own personal opinions and biases into the lecture. Overall this left me really disappointed as this was a class I was really looking forward to, but one that was ruined by a professor who was not able to keep their own biases out of the classroom and welcome all opinions.