TK
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Absolutely fantastic course with a wonderfully calm lecturer who delivers complex situations in an understandable way. The course material is superb and opens up avenues to explore. Thank you so much.
BB
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Super interesting, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak was an amazing teacher, the course was great, well condensed but it was so interesting that I would not mind a follow up course with more detail !
By Rashmita J
•Dec 2, 2018
It was great
By Sarah M
•Nov 10, 2015
Amazing!!!!
By Ignacio Z
•Apr 25, 2020
Excellent!
By Antonina Z
•Jul 9, 2017
Very Good.
By John
•May 21, 2016
Quality Qu
By Favio J S L
•Sep 14, 2022
Excelente
By Ignacio d P d L
•Oct 15, 2021
Excellent
By ELMER M P
•Oct 4, 2021
thank you
By German D S G
•Oct 9, 2016
Excellent
By Julie B
•Feb 13, 2016
wonderful
By Raúl O L C
•Nov 11, 2015
excellent
By carlos f z
•Oct 26, 2015
MagnÃfico
By Yash D
•Apr 8, 2020
good one
By Ekaterina P
•Jun 29, 2016
Perfect!
By Ekaterina M
•Sep 26, 2016
Amazing
By saheeb a
•Oct 4, 2020
Great
By Patrick K A
•Nov 10, 2016
Good
By Matthew R
•Jul 24, 2016
Cool
By Valentina P
•Sep 8, 2021
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•Aug 19, 2015
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By Kelly S
•Mar 17, 2021
Light as it may be, one criticism is that the anticipated time suggested for readings, in particular, were unrealistic because they did not account for taking of notes. Using 11-point Calibri font, this course resulted in a total of 251 pages of notes in my case, mostly from the readings. Consequently, my time devoted to study far exceeded the suggested time periods. I suppose I could have just engaged in the readings casually and met the anticipated time, but what would be the point of that? Another, more significant issue is that the spelling in the transcription of lectures (probably done by machine) was consistently wrong, particularly with reference to proper names of people and places. I know there will be a bit of variation anyway when translating Greek names in English, but these were more egregious errors. I found it a bit trying to continually investigate, from other sources, what the actual name was intended to be. To cite one of many examples, note how Chalcidice is mistakenly spelled as a "sea" in the 40th lecture ("The Fourth Century: Philip II and Alexander The Great). So some proper review and editing of the transcriptions would be very helpful and take a rather onerous burden from students. Otherwise, I greatly appreciated the wealth of information and presentations by the professor.
By laura k
•Jun 14, 2020
I loved the course and learned a great deal. My only issue what that with many of the quiz's there were questions that had "check all that apply" well I some cases I would get those wrong and then reread my notes, go back over the videos and readings and take the test again only to get the same type of question wrong. I would look and look for the correct answers and with some there just were none. I wish there was a way that after you have submitted you last test that you could get the answers so you would know why you got it wrong and what the right answer was. Some of them were very confusing because the answers would span the whole series of lectures and then maybe a very short part of a reading. I guess I just wish I could know what the actual answer was for some of the questions.
By Brook L
•Nov 27, 2020
Loved this course. I would have liked to have the option of deep diving on a few key areas, this is such a rich period of history. I also would have liked to see a list of accompanying books or other reading materials for each week so I could deep dive myself outside of the course. The only disappointing part of this course is with the reading assignments; first many of the URLs are outdated and no longer valid links, and second the estimated time for reading is underestimated (I always spent MUCH longer reading then the estimate).
By Katherine M
•Sep 18, 2016
I found this a really interesting course to complete. The lectures are easily digestible and help to provide context for various readings that you complete along the way. I would have liked an introductory lecture that gave an overview of some of the major themes of the course more clearly (I felt a bit at sea throughout the first topic having never studied this before. I didn't know what to pay attention to). But once we were underway, I had no trouble working out the flow of events. I really enjoyed this- thank you!
By Florencia R
•Mar 21, 2021
It was a really nice course, I learned a lot and now I feel that I have much more organized and clear ideas about this period. The teacher was really good, I enjoyed a lot his explanations. Also the organization of the course made very easy to follow the program and the final test helped as well in the learning and the assimilation of the contents.The only thing that, in my opinion, need to be improved is the reading links because many of them didn't work. Thank you very much for your work!