Professor Higbie was amazing. He loves what he is teaching you about and is passionate about the subject. Sometimes, I found his lecturing style a bit difficult to follow. His slides consists mostly of pictures so even though he makes them available to us, there really is not much helpful information. Also, there is not a textbook to the class so you never know what is truly important or what the main points of his lectures are. It was very difficult for me to keep up with the history component of it because since I am not a history major I did not have a lot of background to some of the historical periods he would talk about. If you know some history, I think you will be okay! In terms of workload, there are 3 books which to be honest were not very interesting to me and I found them quite dense and boring. Apart, from the books there are articles and excerpts that he gives out every week. I took this class to ease my schedule from my econ classes but I found it super time consuming . If you enjoy the subject, I think you will enjoy the class and the materials. Even though I did not like the workload, I always looked forward to Professor Higbies' lectures. He always related the material to the current issues we face as a society today. I wish the material would have had more of that.