Tutino is a very challenging, but helpful professor. In the 97 Seminar, she has her students develop arguments using evidence from the readings. This may sound like a simple exercise, but Tutino is relentless and will pick your argument apart down to word choice. While defending your argument will be very tough and stressful (it was probably the most stress I ever been under in class that was not a test), she does this for your benefit and it really helped me to understand the process of arguing a historical thesis.

Tutino is a very good professor who cares about her students and their learning. She begins class, and sometimes even halts discussion, just talking to her students asking about their weekend, interests, or just for the sack of talking.

She is also hilariously Italian and it shows sometimes!

Terrible. Absolutely terrible. Atrocious. Horrible Professor, doesn’t care about students only picks favorites. Her TA’s are even worse, one TA says something then every student does that on the midterm and then this “Professor” comes in and says no, you did it all wrong. Like what? Your TA’s told us to do it like this. Don’t waste your time she’s absolutely trash.

I took this class fall 2020 during covid and enjoyed it. I found it fairly easy although people seem to have really struggled on the midterm. She was a tough grader when it came to the papers and expects high quality work. If you can't write do NOT take this class. Class wasn't required and was honestly not super useful. However, discussions were INCREDIBLY important and I really enjoyed them. (35% Midterm Paper, 45% Final, 10% easy final assignment, 10% participation in discussions).

The professor is engaging in her lectures and held extremely helpful office hours where, even with a line down the hallway, she would take the time to go through your essays. Her feedback was blunt but helpful and she did genuinely seem to care to help and about the wellbeing of students. The weekly readings were usually pretty long and dense. With my TA, you did have to participate fairly often which meant you should have some understanding of the readings. There is also a suggested textbook chapter reading that pairs with the source readings of the week which I never found to be vital, though the professor and TA recommends it. The grading is 35% midterm essay (850 words + 500 word reflection), 15% Final part 1 (easy 100% as long as you turn in a photo of an artifact on time), Final part 2 (2500 word essay) 35% and 15% participation in section. All essay prompts were very open ended which some people did not like, but I didn't mind as it gave you a wide variety of topics to choose from in the class content. It's a fair class and you really just get out what you put into it.

while not a very easy class, the prof. is pretty good. the main positives of the class are as follows: no tests, lectures are engaging, slides are posted, lectures a recorded, and attendance in lecture is not mandatory. you do have to write two papers (one 1000 words and the other 2000 words), but aside from that, there is very little additional work. it is not exactly an easy GE, but it is not too difficult and would highly recommend, especially if you are interested in the topic.

professor was incredibly passionate about her work. in addition, she wore bomb outfits for every lecture. She had an accent but was still very understandable. Selling the required books for this class, there are a lot of them: **********

Professor Tutino is very competent and engaging. The class was very fair.

I really enjoyed Professor Tutino's class! She is very passionate about the subject she teaches and it's portrayed through her lectures well. Lectures are not required, but I think they are worth attending. Professor Tutino is somewhat difficult just because she expects a lot out of you, but she's very helpful. Your grade is made up of two essays, a selfie with an artifact, and section participation. Discussions were honestly super boring and awkward, but it was easy to get participation points. Overall, a pretty easy class!

This class is a lot like AP World History. The professor is super nice but sometimes it was difficult to understand what she was saying. My TA wasn't really helpful. The reading is a lot and it was pretty hard to stay up to date. There are no tests, just a midterm and final paper that were easy to write.

(Note: we had a TA strike this quarter so your experience may vary). This class had its ups and downs. Professor Tutino is a no-nonsense professor who will simultaneously humble you in office hours (show up early!) but will absolutely give you the feedback you need. Don't waste her time; if you have a question, make sure you have examples of what you're working with so far. This class has one midterm essay, a TA section write up, and a final essay with two parts: a picture with a museum display and the essay itself. Not an easy A, but if you are willing to put in the work and sharpen your history writing, take this course. Also can I talk about her garbage can dress? Lady Gaga could never.