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Nineteenth Century American History (HIST 152)
Spring 2007

My favorite part of the course was:

Being a historical figure and answering a problem we have today defintitly makes you learn alot about that person. I liked incorporating the figures from our past in our work.
The research project and also responding to questions as our hero was my favorite part of the course. I think posting as our hero in the discussion questions was a great way to incorporate multiculturalism by looking at others opinions and supporting them even if though they may not be our own.
It's structure. I was able to work at my own pace. I liked the way each assignment was set up and the amount of effort versus time that I had to put in.
Someone finally forced me to learn proper documentation, citation, and research techinques. There is no way to skate bt here.

If I were going to recommend a modification in the course before Dr. Berg teaches it again, it would be:

None
Some of the videos I felt were a little hard to respond too, especially one of the final exam video's, "Coming Home", I had an extremely hard time relating to it and therefore skipped it on the exam.
Perhaps, pick better videos to write about.
a better way to lay everything out, was very confusing at first.

Other comments I have about Dr. Berg or the course are:

Communication was excellent. We knew more than we deserved to know about days off, etc. It is important to the distance learner to have contact or know why you do not. This class forces the learner to engage with the material. Excellent design!
He was an extremely cooperative professor and responded to emails in an effective and most timely manner. He kept me up to date on my scores and graded assignments extremely fast. Also his willingness to let students redo assignments if they were not up to par helped me and I noticed other students improve our learning and therefore our grades.