Professor Dimberg is a brilliant, kind, and generous professor who loves sharing his knowledge of Korea with students. You can tell this man loves what he teaches, and the class really isn't very difficult at all. You'll come out glad that you took it.

I don't understand why the other reviewers have given this man favorable reviews. Lectures are extremely boring. He focuses on trivial details concerning Buddhism, rather than actual events in Korea history. Plays favorites, and gives everyone else the same grade regardless of effort. So be sure to suck up to him. Went to office hours after every quiz and paper, to no avail. Don't understand how this man grades.

Professor Dimberg is great; he knows and enjoys the material, and goes through it without making it too boring. The class only has two tests and two sets of papers, which is almost entirely based off the material he talks about in class. The books don't really helpful, so make sure you go to lecture and take good notes.

Dimberg is an awesome professor and really makes you want to learn about Korea. His tests are hard cause he gives you no indication of what are on them, so pretty much any event, person, time period, etc. is fare game. He also is quite a harsh grader on the papers, but if you go to him and show a revision or two he is much more reasonable.

Lecture style is very old fashioned but if you stick with it and study efficiently you will do okay

Go to class and listen to lectures. Dimberg grades based on what he says but not so much based on what's in the books he assigns. You really only have to work two weeks for the midterm and final which are your whole grade.

Dimberg was an engaging lecturer, a great story teller, and a fair grader. I enjoyed listening to his lectures as if I were listening to one of his stories about his wife or his college years--he explained things in a way that made it seem sometimes that he was there in the middle of history. I will miss him a lot!

Dimberg is a great lecturer and is very very clear and precise with what he is talking about. He always mentions a story or two about his wife which are always funny. In all honesty, you only have to do 4 days of work in this class. The two days where you study for the quizzes, and the two days where you write the essays. The quizzes are just 10 id questions, pretty straightforward and easy (they are all main ideas, or figures, or events). The papers I thought were graded extremely fairly, and I did well on all of them (just read bits and pieces of the books he assigns and cite them throughout). Pretty easy but rewarding class, but you have to go to every lecture if you want to pass the quizzes.

if you want a good grade in this course, you have to really focus on what his saying
boring class

He is amazing and I actually enjoyed the class. His quizzes are pretty easy if you study hard, but most people seem to bomb the essays. THe gradings are HARD. But if you are really interested in learning Korean History, take it!