Her mandatory outside readings are least 15 years old. Weekly quizzes just test you to see if you did the reading, kind of like in 4th grade. Absolutely no cognative thinking required. She had us read 57 pgs on the Sally Hemmings-Jefferson affair and we read one paragraph on the entire Louisiana Purchase.

Very disappointed of this professor and class. Makes you read tons of outisde materials. Pop up quizzes were all like essays. Makes you write a lot of essays, and paid close attention to english skills. Whole bunch of essays and two exams like a big essay as well. Grading is 50% materials and 50% English, so I had problems with academic English and that affected my grade. Most of the readings were outside materials about slavery and random peoples, not much about Revolutionary war. She spent 10 min on Louisiana Purchase and war of 1812. It's more of an English class rather than History. Did not learn much of history.

Dont take this class with this teacher!! I thought I loved History and was really good at it, but not after this course. Worst class ever, the teacher is very unclear of her expectations and all her tests are essay, which are graded horribly.

I don't learn from reading a book, I learn by what the professor has to say. If you like to read alot of boring-ness, then this class is for you. Shes not helpful at like. Say you have a learning disability, she'd treat you like any other student in the class, and doesnt care if you fail. I really cant wait till this class is over. Dont take it!!

This teacher is giving me a hard time. There's something due everyday. Her teaching policy isnt so great, and organized. Do not take if you are not ready to learn a whole bunch of boring stuff.

She has her own website, why?! Doesnt make sense to me. She makes you read a whole bunch, had us buy 5 expensive books. She seems like shes in her own world, very careless if one needs help, shes very tough. She basically doesnt explain anything to you. Makes you find it on your own.

The class clearly interrupted the professors summer plans. Rather than use the full term she crams everything in before the 4th of July, meaning you have 200-300 pages to read a week. Classic case of a professional student turned professor who has unrealistic expectations of undergrads and asserts her educational superiority through tough grading.

This class was terrible! I would not recommend it to anyone! She has ridiculous expectations and does not give the credit you deserve. I have taken many classes and this is by far the worst!!

Hard class, hard grader, too much reading. She think that students only take her class and no one else, the home work and readings are crazy long! She expects 10 online discussion posts a week are you kidding me!!!

Requires many books and the purchase of a movie. Be prepared to spend any free time reading out of all the various books and articles. She is not specific about how many discussions you need, she says 4 but I do 9 a week and received a low B. Lots of writing and reading, above that she is very hard grader. Be prepared to work very hard for a B or C

Took her online class. Lots of reading, usually requires at least 4 discussion posts for a C, with 8 or more lengthy posts for an A. Books expensive and numerous. Strict grader, with very high expectations. Usually I get a B or higher, but I'm not a strong writer, so I got a C. Need to be a good writer for this class.

She is a terrible teacher. Doesn't give you enough time to even finish the quiz and get a good score. I complained to her and she said I needed to work on my test taking strategies. What does that even mean? I took Calculus 1 and Physics 1 with this class and she made it harder than both of those classes. I have had straight A's in all my history

Had to read 3 books, class has 2 textbooks that you have to read, she gives open answered quizzes almost every class and you cant make them up so you cant skip a class, also doesnt use the d2l website at all so you cant see your grade there you have to ask and you cant see what you missed if youre not in class, test are also all open answer.

This teacher is very hard to please. She makes it seem like if you miss a tiny little detail you cannot come close to receiving 100% on anything. You write a few essays but most of it is A TON of reading. My suggestion is do NOT take this class from her if you are wanting credit. It is terribly hard!!

Took her for U.S history ll and Ive never wanted to drop out of a class so bad! I knew from the start my grade was going to be back you get a pop quiz almost every class period and you just have to be prepared bc youre not sure if youll have a quiz or not so you have to do the readings every night. Read the material and still did bad on quizzes

DO NOT TAKE LINDA! Worst class I have ever experienced. I took this class online and unless you want to do 16-24 hours of history homework every week and pull all-nighters, do not take! We had to read a 600 page novel, numerous articles every week, multiple discussion posts, and OPEN ENDED TESTS. I am a straight A student and this class was awful.

Gives extreme amount of reading for an intro class. You basically need to read everything to be ready for the quizzes, but she doesn't give reading guides, or any idea what the quiz will be on. Quizzes are all short answer, and she requires you to make cited quotes in the time limited quizzes, so you might as well read them as you take the quiz.

The worst class ever. Avoid this class AT ALL COSTS. Has her own website like shes the president. You need to read at least 4 hours a day just to take a quiz thats open ended and need to cite with a time limit that is absolutely unreasonable. You will have to type up an absurd amount of discussions to just receive a C.

Linda was very clear about what she wanted done. 10-15 discussion posts/ comments on D2L posts a week, two quizzes a week ( one multiple choice, the other was paragraph answers ), there was multiple items to read weekly, you were expected to check D2L daily. If you work at all this class is NOT for you, its a lot of stress. I do not suggest her.

When taking her class we had to read a textbook(20+ pages) chapters and take a quiz on that. And also read 7-8 articles the majority of the time, there were some weeks that were relatively light but mostly heavy. Quizzes are easy, if you do the reading and on top of all the reading there are discussion posts 4c 8b and that's if she liked them.

This class is really difficult if you have a chance to take a different one for credit I would. There is so much reading each week, usually, at least 100 pages, with a quiz following, the quiz is all short answer/essay format. On top of that, you need 4 discussion posts a week and need to read every single post for credit.

Her workload is far too much. If you are planning on having a life outside of her class DO NOT TAKE. I am a straight A student and I had to drop out. Far to much reading and her grading on the discussion quizzes are just ridiculous.

I thought this class was horrendous. Didn't learn a single thing from it.

I never enjoyed history classes, but I always did good in them, tell it came to this course and this professor. 0/10 recommend. Just go with a better professor.

10/15 weeks for the discussions were based on 60+ pgs. each week on slavery. Slavery was a very important aspect of our history in America to learn. The long-lasting weeks on end of reading about how awful white people were to others began to feel like an agenda. There are other things to learn of our history than just these dreadful times.

Lots of work is expected of her. Weekly multiple choice quizzes, a written quiz, and weekly discussions with three or more responses, wouldn't recommend taking her class.

If you plan on taking a class with this professor DO NOT DO IT. I excel in history classes and loved every social studies class I've taken. Except for this one. Multiple choice and open ended tests and 60+ pages of reading each week. Avoid this professor like the plague unless you don't want to have a life outside of her class, worst professor ever

If you have a job don't take her class. She assigns more readings my last three classes combined. Multiple chapters from the textbooks and then some extra articles for fun. She doesn't provide any rubrics for grading. She required over 8 paragraph-length posts a week to even consider giving you an A on the discussion portion of the class.

Don't take classes by this teacher unless you excel reading hundreds of pages, a minimum of 4 paragraph length discussion posts, and a quiz each week! Too much reading that you have to condense down for timed quizzes. 4 discussion posts is a C, 8+ is an A. You MUST cite specific page sources for each quiz answer! And MANY MORE frustrating things…