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Sabrina Baron HIST235 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/23/2022	Dr. Baron is a very nice lady and a great professor. The only complaint I have about her is that she is very anti-technology, so all notes have to be handwritten. She also doesn't put any words on her lecture slides, so you have to listen very carefully to get all of the information. She is very passionate about the subject and grades fairly.
Julie Taddeo HIST235 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/15/2013	Definitely take her if you need history to fulfill requirements!! 4 inclass essays and 2 exams, as long as you goto class and take good notes, and read the books, she is an easy grader and awesome lecturer
Sabrina Baron HIST235 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/05/2011	She is an interesting teacher and is really nice. You get two five page essay assignments and two exams. The essays are analytical reviews on a primary and a secondary source. Take these paper to the writing center because she doesn't like grammatical errors. Her tests are kind of hard because she picks random 25 words and you have to write why they are important in historical times or something like that. She wasn't really specific on what she wanted on the test, so a lot of people didn't do so well. But she gave us a generous curve. She is really a slow grader, she went over our midterm on the last class. Also, you have to go to class, take notes, and talk in class to get a good participation grade. Her power points are only pictures and your notes are based on what she says. This class was really interesting, so I would recommend it to people who likes this kind of history.
Sabrina Baron HIST235 Anonymous 12/27/2009	Take this class! The only downside is that it takes awhile for her to get grades back on assignments but she is a very good professor and her lectures are interesting. She spends every class lecturing so make sure you take good notes. If you can't write fast, I recommend bringing a lap top. As long as you go to every class and take notes, you don't need to read. I wouldn't even buy the books unless you want to read them for yourself. She goes over all of the material in class that you need to know. Her exams are ID questions so they really aren't very challenging and she doesn't try to trick you. She is also very helpful in office hours so I recommend taking advantage of that too. This is one of the best classes I have taken at UMD and I recommend it to everyone.
Sabrina Baron HIST235 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/21/2009	Excellent professor. She lectures the entire class but does so in an interesting way, and her lectures are so comprehensive that if you take good notes you don't really have to read all of the assigned readings. BUT, it is imperative that you attend pretty much every class to get these notes, and attendance factors into your grade (she takes attendance at the beginning of each classs). I only skimmed the books before tests to find any information I was missing from my notes. The class has two papers, and a mid term and final. The final is not cummulative. Overall the class is interesting and mananagable. Not a super easy A but if you put in the effort you can definitely do well.
Sabrina Baron HIST235 Expecting an A blf123 04/15/2008	She is a wealth of knowledge and really interesting. Her lectures are formatted as kind of a story and she tells the history that way, which was really helpful. Great class and professor for someone who is not very into history, because she makes you become into it.

Sabrina Baron
HIST235

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/23/2022

Dr. Baron is a very nice lady and a great professor. The only complaint I have about her is that she is very anti-technology, so all notes have to be handwritten. She also doesn't put any words on her lecture slides, so you have to listen very carefully to get all of the information. She is very passionate about the subject and grades fairly.

Julie Taddeo
HIST235

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/15/2013

Definitely take her if you need history to fulfill requirements!! 4 inclass essays and 2 exams, as long as you goto class and take good notes, and read the books, she is an easy grader and awesome lecturer

Sabrina Baron
HIST235

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/05/2011

She is an interesting teacher and is really nice. You get two five page essay assignments and two exams. The essays are analytical reviews on a primary and a secondary source. Take these paper to the writing center because she doesn't like grammatical errors. Her tests are kind of hard because she picks random 25 words and you have to write why they are important in historical times or something like that. She wasn't really specific on what she wanted on the test, so a lot of people didn't do so well. But she gave us a generous curve. She is really a slow grader, she went over our midterm on the last class. Also, you have to go to class, take notes, and talk in class to get a good participation grade. Her power points are only pictures and your notes are based on what she says. This class was really interesting, so I would recommend it to people who likes this kind of history.

Sabrina Baron
HIST235

Anonymous
12/27/2009

Take this class! The only downside is that it takes awhile for her to get grades back on assignments but she is a very good professor and her lectures are interesting. She spends every class lecturing so make sure you take good notes. If you can't write fast, I recommend bringing a lap top. As long as you go to every class and take notes, you don't need to read. I wouldn't even buy the books unless you want to read them for yourself. She goes over all of the material in class that you need to know. Her exams are ID questions so they really aren't very challenging and she doesn't try to trick you. She is also very helpful in office hours so I recommend taking advantage of that too. This is one of the best classes I have taken at UMD and I recommend it to everyone.

Sabrina Baron
HIST235

Expecting an A
Anonymous
01/21/2009

Excellent professor. She lectures the entire class but does so in an interesting way, and her lectures are so comprehensive that if you take good notes you don't really have to read all of the assigned readings. BUT, it is imperative that you attend pretty much every class to get these notes, and attendance factors into your grade (she takes attendance at the beginning of each classs). I only skimmed the books before tests to find any information I was missing from my notes. The class has two papers, and a mid term and final. The final is not cummulative. Overall the class is interesting and mananagable. Not a super easy A but if you put in the effort you can definitely do well.

Sabrina Baron
HIST235

Expecting an A
blf123
04/15/2008

She is a wealth of knowledge and really interesting. Her lectures are formatted as kind of a story and she tells the history that way, which was really helpful. Great class and professor for someone who is not very into history, because she makes you become into it.

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