B.U.+History+Courses

Professor: William Keylor
 * CAS HI349/HI 350** History of International Relations from 1900-1945/1945-Present

A great course, if you can stand the fact that it is a 300-person lecture. Keylor is a very good professor, and explains history well through his movie and audio-clip filled PowerPoint lectures. I had a good TF, and discussion section was interesting and enjoyable, if not actually that useful. I would say that there are about 60-120 pages of reading per week, most of which is pretty dense. The grades are based on a midterm, a final (not cumulative), a 5-7 page essay, and participation in discussion section. The exams are entirely essay based, so do not take this class unless you are pretty decent at writing in-class essays with very limited time. Exams are mostly based on stuff covered in lecture, but for the final he threw in a question that needed knowledge from the readings. So you actually have to do the readings in addition to taking good lecture notes. The class is made up entirely of BU juniors and seniors (and you, if you choose to take it), but the grading isn’t actually that tough. My grade dropped half a letter from my junior year history grade, and I put out about the same level of work. Reviewer: Adam K

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