Thomas Murphy
Mar 27, 2025 · Historical comment
so great! loved him! i never talked in class, but he really works with you based on your essays and isn't a hard grader for the us pres class. it was super interesting too. learned a lot!
HIST2817 · History
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
Fulfills US History requirement for History Majors.This course will provide a survey of the Presidency of the United States from its invention at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to the present day. We will proceed chronologically through all the Presidents and their Administrations, with particular focus on Presidents who are traditionally regarded as less than successful. From this basis we will also spend considerable time on the issue of how all Presidents reputations tend to fluctuate over time. We will also discuss issues such as the expectations Americans traditionally place on Presidents and whether those are realistic. Each student will produced a final project on a particular President whose reputation and its ups and downs interest them.
Course experience
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Organization
4.7 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.4 / 5
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Attendance
4.7 / 5
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Assignments
4.5 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~5
hours per week
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Mar 27, 2025 · Historical comment
so great! loved him! i never talked in class, but he really works with you based on your essays and isn't a hard grader for the us pres class. it was super interesting too. learned a lot!
Dec 5, 2024 · Historical comment
Super nice professor, you can tell he wants you to do well. Sometimes class was boring and there seemed like there was a lot of reading, but any assignments were so easy, and reading material is covered in class. Midterms and final were all take-home, and essay prompts were very straightforward.
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Fall 2024
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