Her lectures are boring, and the "humour" which she tries to impart on them is weak and not funny to say the least. Her grading proceedures are strange and unclear. Her class policies are also somewhat hypocritical and emotion based.

i would not recommend taking this class, unless you are good at writting essays and what not, exams our only based on readings that you do throughout the semester not on lecture. so you HAVE to read and get what you are reading to get a good grade on exams and papers

cannot stand this woman. goes way too fast through her slides, tries to be funny but fails miserably. no real textbook, just a huge packet of primary sources that she puts together herself. TA's arent allowed to answer specific questions before exams and are useless. AVOID THIS CLASS!!

She has a major attitude problem. She thinks she is the best at her subject but lacks any real understanding of military operations ( prior service military). Highly disrespectful to the armed forces

If only she had a class about herself would she be satisfied. She covers the material as any professor would, with some hints of enthusiasm. She very often talks about her life so that you may sympathize with her. She and her teaching assistants push their communist agendas so watch out.

I have never worked so hard in a class to get a B in my whole college career. Class should be labeled a W course since there are 4 papers and the exams are all essay style where you must cite textual evidence from two to three sources. These must be memorized. My TA only made it worse since he was completely useless. She talks about herself only.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS...worst class I have ever taken. She is extremely rude to her students and believes that what she is asking for in her papers is clear, but it is NOT CLEAR. I spent countless hours writing these papers and studying and got a C in the class. The TA that I had was rude as well. NOT OBJECTIVE GRADERS. awful. ruined my gpa :(

Terrible teacher. The reviews speak for themselves. Personally I believe she's bitter because she knows Wikipedia is a better source for information rendering her profession obselete. Makes fun of students, tells her TA's to grade very harshly, makes historical events confusing and does not teach linearly.

A bitter woman who treats college students as middle school children. Her class is a bonafide example of a general education with her dull powerpoint slides and pretentious attitude. I don't see liking her outside of class either.

I agree she is very similar to Umbridge from HP. Stops entire lectures to call students out like some middle school class/adds irrelevant personal stories to lecture. Her TA's are very pretentious, material in lecture is clear but discussion sections are flat out ridiculous. They expect outrageous depth in papers that don't reflect the lectures.

Janet Watson is a horrible professor, who does not lecture properly, and the TA (Erin Bartam)is even worst. They do not care about their students. They expect you to write super in-depth papers, as if you have a PHD in History. There's not a text book for her class. You have to take notes, based upon what she say... I regret, taking this class!

She treats students like they r in elementary school and she has the idea that she is better than everyone. also the textbook we use she created and the readings for the discussions are long and extremely boring.

Good luck! Class never sparked my interest, always ended up on facebook. TA grades everything so suck up.. Class was terrible and a waste of time.

watson thought she was much better than everyone else in the class and she chose bad essay topics and put many terms on the final that had very little to do with the course itself the best part of the class was when we were in discussion groups and i didnt have to listen to her stories about her own life that were not relevant AVOID HER BAD TEACHER

Worst class I've taken in my entire life, avoid at all costs. I had to take this as a pre-req for the business school. The TA grades everything, I had Erin Bartram, went to her almost all of her office hours in the Benton, talked to her after discussions and went to her with drafts of my paper before it was due, and NEVER got above a C

Packs way to much information in one lecture so she talks soooo fast. Slides arent in chronological order, very confusing. AVOID

One of the hardest gen ed classes I've ever taken. Don't take this class if you want an easy A in history. No textbook and no online notes. Basically, if you don't take down every word that she says during lecture you won't get anything above a C. Everyone thinks they ace the exams in there until they see how unfaily the TAs grade them. Good luck.

I hated this class. I am a great student and put effort into all of my classes but Professor Watson expects an unreal amount of work for a class that people are forced to take as a gen-ed. She is the epitome of a professor who takes herself and her class too seriously. Her grading system is a joke. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HER.

There is no text book for this history course its just primary sources. The history is taught in lecture and she does not post any slides so if you do not show up to class you will never know what she will ask you to recall on her mid term and final

Bottom line is I've never gotten a "C"in my life, until I took Professor Watson.

Do not take this class. I thought hist1400 should be an easy elective. I was very wrong. Her slides have like 2 words on it, so you have to go to class and write down what she says. Her grading is vague and unclear. She has weekly quizzes where you have to read up to 50 pages, and then it will be one question on a random, small fact.

Very boring lectures. Midterm and final are very difficult. Go to every lecture and take good notes because she doesn't post them online.

Sweet Jesus, this class is a disaster. Imagine someone throwing 50+ slides at you per week, but these slides are vague and you have to mostly rely on her spit-fire rhetoric for notes. On top of that, the exam requires you to cite specific examples from the text without the use of said text or notes. Avoid this like the plague it is.

She is by far the worst teacher I have had at Uconn. She speaks in lecture as though she is better than everyone in the room. She is very condescending and very boring. She doesn't make class interesting whatsoever. There is a ton of information to know and a bunch of reading. Terrible class. Avoid at all costs.

This class is absolutely terrible. Her lectures are packed with so much information that it is truly difficult to grasp what she is even trying to teach. She is not approachable at all. There is a great deal of mandatory reading every week and at discussion you have a specific one question quiz on that reading. Absolutely brutal. Avoid this class.

The lectures rarely ever relate to the homework she assigns with it. Both of the midterms and the final are essays with extremely vague prompts that are graded harshly. There are no projects or group work, just weekly assignments. She's a pretty nice lady though but it doesn't translate to her grading.

You need to show up for her lectures, she only puts like 2 words on the slide and then lectures , so if you skip class and just look at the power point you will struggle! You have the same 3 homework assignments every week all semester, it's boring!! She is very unorganized and the timeline of history and her lectures do not add up.

More tedious than difficult. I've never seen a professor get more sidetracked in my life. Every day, she went on long rants about things not related to the class and couldn't finish the notes as a result. The lectures were often not related to the HW, which are VERY repetitive to do. HW is graded on completion, but the 3 exams are harshly graded.

Very nice professor. I had some health problems later on in the semester and she was very accommodating. However, she assigned a huge amount of work. We would have to do a reading every class and we would have to write a short response on it. Every week, she would assign multiple long readings and an extensive reading worksheet to go with them.

She is VERY knowledgeable. With that being said, everything else is tough. VERY little info on slides EVERYTHING is verbal, skipping is going to hurt. Emailed her 6 times and have not heard from her once. The homework is unrealistic 2 one page essays a week due in less than 24 hrs of being assigned + an extremely reading intensive weekly sheet.

She never answered emails lever. Posts the powerpoints but they have very little words, the lectures are all verbal, DO NOT SKIP. Take notes on what she says. A page assignment after classes and a worksheet due on Friday. It has 7 questions for 2-3 sources, have to write paragraph for each. So much work. All midterms and final are essays open note.

Professor Watson is very kind, however she spends a lot of time in lecture talking about random things, and then uses the last 5 minutes to run through everything, always keeping you over. Lectures are mandatory since the powerpoints don't make any sense unless you're there. Also didn't put in grades until the last week.

Go to lecture or you're screwed. No grades in until the final week. Yusuf Mansoor might be the worst TA I've ever had. Got a zero on an entire portion of the grade for the course for using AI (which I did) which is why I got a C+. prof. Watson will not respond to your emails but she is very smart and knows a lot about history. TA is the worst.

(Fall 2023) Janet's passionate about this subject I will say. You have to attend lecture. She didn't post the slides ever. When the slides were up she skipped through them too fast which was frustrating. You have to type as she's talking which was difficult but you need to be able to keep up. The midterm and final were open note but graded harshly.