Reviews of professor Hillar Schwertner

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Best class I've taken, hands down. The course is challenging: read close to a book each week, be engaged in discussion, long papers. But you get what you put into it. Thought-provoking and challenging, a helpful and supportive professor that encourages exploration and each student's interpretations. This course will stay with me for a long time.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really made me enjoy history (not usually my thing). The class has lots reading, but in-class discussions help make sense of it all. Papers are a big part of grade, but he's very accessible for feedback, and essays are integrated with the rest of the material - pay attention to lecture and discussions, and you'll have plenty of ideas to write about