HISA 1501

DO NOT TAKE. Professor Leonard is a nice enough guy, but he even admitted that this 1000 level class should be for fourth years and graduate students. You will have to read large sections of The Wealth of Nations and 300 pages a week of letters, accounts, ect written in the 1700's. Despite being a seminar, he lectured for the entire two and a half hours and frequently went on tangents. Usually, he went over time by about 5-10 minutes, which for such a long class is painful. We didn't even start talking about India until October. Good side is that he gives a great study guide for exams, literally all of the questions several days in advance and the test is open note open book (really hard test so its not like this class is an easy A though). You have to do the readings and really understand the readings to understand what he is talking about in class.