Gratien's HIME 1501 is a heavily reading-based course. There are weekly readings-articles and ,less often, books- which are about 20 to 40 pages long. During the one-time the class meets, students are expected to discuss the readings. Every student will be expected to present the week's reading once during the whole semester. Before the end of the semester, students were divided into groups to work on a series of writing tasks that totaled about 10,000. The final paper built on the group assignment and totaled 3000-4000 words.
It's an extremely reasonable and interesting class that focuses on a lesser-known narrative of Middle History. The class discusses how man-made changes to the ecology formed political institutions. If you complete the weekly readings, contribute to the discussion, write quality papers, you will do well in the class. It's not a demanding class, but it can be if you wait to do everything. Also, it was a relatively very cost-friendly class,