Reviews for Paul Landau
Average Rating:| CB Course: HIST289A Grade Expected: A- February 17, 2011, 5:45 pm | Every week you have to print out and read around 100 pages of historical text, and then write a 2-3 page paper on the current event. However, if you like current events it is a worthwhile class. After the first few weeks I stopped reading the 100 pages and only skimmed. I still managed to average B's on the papers. Participation in discussion is worth 25% of your grade, so you have to read the assigned newspaper articles, but those aren't long and are usually interesting. Landau himself is a fairly interesting professor and a nice guy. So if you are interested in current "hot spots" and are up for doing a lot of reading, go ahead and take the class. |
| Anonymous Course: HIST123 Grade Expected: A May 16, 2010, 9:35 am | If you're good at history and can follow a teacher who doesn't use PowerPoint, this class shouldn't be a problem. He jumps around a bit with lectures, but if you actual attend lecture and discussion, overall this course isn't too hard. Plus I learned a lot about Africa, which is pretty cool. |
| Anonymous Course: HIST419E Grade Expected: C March 19, 2009, 9:15 pm | Extremely choppy lectures, many of the times doesn't even make sense. The assignments and tests are just a reflection of his own thoughts, which are unorganized. Lectures from his unpublished book and makes students read material that makes little to no sense. Not very accessible, does not provide great feedback. Avoid if you can! |
| warthog Course: HIST123 Grade Expected: A December 23, 2008, 10:42 pm | The man is obviously brilliant... does every single lecture off the top of his head, because he just knows his shit. Teaches the course from a Eurocentric viewpoint, because yes, it's about the colonial era. If you don't like that, go hit a bong at the co-op. There's no rhyme or reason to the flow of the course... he'll jump from Gambia to Kenya to the Congo within two sentences, and probably cross as many centuries within a lecture. Go figure, he used to teach at Yale, where students are probably used to his game of intellectual catch-me-if-you-can. A very rewarding class if you can keep up with him. Don't fall asleep, and DO NOT COME TO CLASS LATE. |
| Anonymous Course: HIST123 Grade Expected: December 2, 2008, 11:42 am | I got an A in this course...very suprising but if you are able to take part in the discussions...have a clue on the geography of Africa and its recent history... you should do well Prof Landau is okay as a lecturer, there are some things I disagreed with him as he looked at them from a biased Eurocentric viewpoint, but he does know his material overall |
| Anonymous Course: HIST122 Grade Expected: C November 18, 2008, 5:57 pm | This course is not easy, and unfortunately, Landau keeps himself very distant from his students. His lectures can sometimes be very choppy, and notes are very hard to take for most of them. TA's do a good job of trying to make up for it, but when it comes to exam time, you (nor your TA) will really know what to expect (regarding what material will be covered). |