What can I say about Teo that hasn't already been said? He's a master lecturer, a true OG Professor. He is so sweet and his lectures are so engrossing. He's old school so he doesn't use slides, but try to write down as much as he can cause he's got so many words of wisdom. This particular Fiat Lux I took was on Plato's Republic, and I could listen to him talk about Greek history for hours. It's as if he's sitting on an armchair and cracking open this very old volume of history's secrets and reading from it aloud. Lovely lovely man, visit him in Office Hours.

Overall the class is an easy history GE. The professor's lectures themselves can be confusing and most people stopped attending them. Teo has only 3 papers assigned and posts the questions to each paper 2 weeks before they're due. If you just read the book required for the question you chose you should be fine and won't have to due the weekly readings.

If you want an easy A, take this class. I hate writing essays, but the topics to write about are not terrible some are actually interesting. I didn't do a single reading just went to discussion, took a few notes down and started the essays a week in advance

I mistakenly submitted a class evaluation of this professor thinking it was a different professor and class. So I thought I'd make up for it by giving a better and more deserved evaluation of him here.
Initially when I signed up for this class I was expecting our lecture on the Occult t involve spooky things like ghosts and ghouls; you know something straight out of Scooby Doo. However this class from the beginning till the end involved conversation and critiques on religion and it's roots in the Occult and witchcraft. For me being a student who has had a past of religion and is now attempting to drop it in exchange for other philosophies of life I thoroughly enjoyed hearing Teo give unbiased explanations of religious history. He managed to make every lecture engaging with his innuendos and good sense of humour. Though the class was made up of 400+ students he still somehow managed to make every student feel as if he was talking directly to them and cared for each and every one of us. If you get lucky and get an enrollment time good enough to get this class please do! I didn't need to take it but I'm so glad that I did. Also this class is only as fun as you are willing to make it. If you don't do the cool readings you won't understand Teo's passionate lectures and honestly the readings are so different that you actually might find yourself looking forward to them.

I absolutely loved this class and Teo! I was super interested in the class before I took it and I'm glad I got the opportunity to do so! I will say with the class being asynchronous, I feel as though it was quite confusing at first because not having that in person lecture to go over everything and having to find certain things, I got lost. However, once I figured things out I felt like the class was quite nice. The readings are a bit heavy, so definitely not a class to take with a heavy or busy quarter. If you are looking for a super light and easy GE, this is not it. But it's 100% doable and quite fun, you just have to set aside a lot of time to do the work. Lectures give you more of a background for the readings you do, so it sometimes feels as though there is a little bit of disparity between the two, but lectures do help. Teo is a fantastic lecturer and I only regret not taking his class while it was in person.

Teo is a genuine human being. He cares for his students like no other. You can tell that teaching is his passion. I regret that this class wasn't in person because he's such a wonderful professor. The subject is great and interesting. There is an emphasis on catholic saints, but its for three weeks and its great. Yes, you will learn about witches, magic and all that good stuff.
I highly recommend Teo (yes, he prefers his first name rather than professor/doctor) but I do have to warn you that there is a heavy reading load. So make sure you have time, either way, the reading goes by fast because its interesting.

Honestly, I and probably a lot of people came in expecting to learn about cults and mystics and oracles, but the majority of class is about Catholic saints (Saint Francis and Santa Teresa) who were considered heretics in their time but are a little unexpected. It does get to marginalized religions and witches later on, though.

Selling everything for History 1B.
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Selling the required text
- Course reader: $35 (originally $54 before tax). It has highlights but in good condition)
- The Pursuit of the Millennium: $15 (originally $25, condition is brand new)
- The Night Battles: $15 (originally $23, condition is brand new)

The course is easy as long as you do the readings. But be smart about reading. You certainly don’t need to do all of them.

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Professor Ruiz is the best professor I have taken at UCLA. Get to know him and he will help you out. History 20 was a great and easy class.

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