Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
History can be both a great subject in College or it can be complete trash. It all depends on the way the professor handles the course. If its straight out of a single textbook it gets to be boring very fast. If the professor follows a textbook but encourages discussion and advocates using other sources it can be very fulfilling in taking the course.

In short it all depends on the professor more so then the textbook.
That counts for EVERY course you are going to take. To be sure, some classes (calculus for instance) don't lend themselves to discussions. But, so long as you can ask questions and the professor doesn't just read to you, you can have a good time.

Good luck. Oh yeah, and expect lots of liberals. Thousands of them.

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