Overall, I did not find the professor engaging. After the midterm, it felt easy to skip or be on my phone in lecture because the slides had little content on them. I only had to go over select readings in order to complete the assignments, and I learned a lot more from the TA. The professor is knowledgeable, but I felt the class was not for me.

Had her first semester of freshman year for History 115. No exams, only papers, but there were a lot of mini writing assignments in class that help you get a feel for what her grading criteria is. She will cold call you if she sees you distracted in lecture, so at least pretend to pay attention.

There are small "quizzes" once a week in lecture, but they are hardly worth anything. If you missed a lecture and don't know the answer, you can check the slides and pay attention to how people respond so you can catch up on what you missed. Lectures are great, prof is great.

This is a great class for someone who enjoys writing, as all of the exams are essays (you're never actually tested on lecture material). The essay prompts were fun and the lectures were relatively engaging.

Professor Lapina is very nice and caring, however, this class is a bit odd. It centers around 4-5 books you're required to read. Lectures are not related to these books, however attendance is mandatory. You have to write multiple papers on the books, but she isn't a super tough grader. Overall it was an interesting class, but lots of extra work.

Overall, she's caring and is responsive. But she is not a good professor. The class consists lots of reading, 1 short paper, and 2 take-home exams. She assigns a lot of reading that barely have any connection to the lecture material. Dodge if you can.

It seemed to me she put the least amount of work possible into this class. Her lectures were never well organized and the slides themselves had little to no work put into them. Additionally, after having weekly quizzes all semester, none have been entered into the gradebook before the final exam. Finally, she doesn't know how to use canvas.

At the beginning I found her lecture style confusing, her slides have very limited info on them. She is kind and really likes participation during lecture, lecture often felt like a bigger version of discussion sections. I enjoyed the content of the course but sometimes struggled to understand it due to the way it was presented.

Her power point slides are bare bones and not well organized. She assigns a lot of readings (an easy 200pgs a week) only to pick out a couple details. I dont think shes even started writing our exam and she even asked us for IDs which makes me feel like she doesnt know whats shes doing sometimes. Essays are not the worst, I had a okey TA.

Boring lectures, grades based off of your attendance and participation during discussions, five essays you have to write, this pointless RTTP (role play) thing, and the final. Make sure you go to the review session because they basically give you all the answers to the exam. You have to read a book a week.

In the lectures is where you get all your notes and stuff, but in the discussions, participation is part of your overall grade. There aren't textbooks, but you have to buy a bunch of books to read. You have to read a new piece every week and you have to write five essays that are 50% of your grade. Her lectures are slightly boring, but she's nice.

Really liked her as a teacher. Changed major to history because I liked the class so much. History 215 doesn't have a textbook, but it's about a book a week of reading.

Her lectures are extremely confusing. She tends to jump around randomly to different topics, and shes not very clear. Grade is based solely on papers that the TAs grade. Lectures are very boring