Just like to know a bit about what is covered in class so i can decide whether or not i should take it.

Depends on your professor. Each different prof has a different focus and will teach accordingly.

Basically, you go through the Mediaeval Era, touching on the plague and nasty things like that, then you spend quite a bit of time on the Renaissance and the Reformation, and do a very intensive study on the literature and ideas of the era and how the politics and military campaigns changed the very nature of European society, moving it from a basic agrarian feudalistic time period to an era ripe for social revolt and progress.

Really cool material, but it is hard to appreciate it if you're caught up on the prof's style. I know Dr. Armstrong focuses very heavily on the Renaissance in Italy and France, but the readings are epic.

http://www.macinsiders.com/showthrea...tr=H&t=18 342
http://www.macinsiders.com/showthrea...ory-28655.html

Dr. Armstrong is a good lecturer and she certainly makes the material interesting, but she really lacks in the multimedia department. She also spends an inordinate amount of time telling people to be quiet.

In terms of material, she tended to focus on Petrarch and Humanism, Martin Luther and the Reformation, the Tudors, and Louis XIII - XVIII.

By virtue of being an archaeology student/disciple, I'm kinda a history buff, so my opinion on the interest level of this course may be a bit biased; however, I still think it's a course worth taking. The material itself should be enough of a reason to take this class, since it is such an important era in the history of Western culture. To not know this stuff would be to be an eternal schmuck.