What can I say about Teo that hasn't already been said? He's a master lecturer, a true OG Professor. He is so sweet and his lectures are so engrossing. He's old school so he doesn't use slides, but try to write down as much as he can cause he's got so many words of wisdom. This particular Fiat Lux I took was on Plato's Republic, and I could listen to him talk about Greek history for hours. It's as if he's sitting on an armchair and cracking open this very old volume of history's secrets and reading from it aloud. Lovely lovely man, visit him in Office Hours.

Overall the class is an easy history GE. The professor's lectures themselves can be confusing and most people stopped attending them. Teo has only 3 papers assigned and posts the questions to each paper 2 weeks before they're due. If you just read the book required for the question you chose you should be fine and won't have to due the weekly readings.

If you want an easy A, take this class. I hate writing essays, but the topics to write about are not terrible some are actually interesting. I didn't do a single reading just went to discussion, took a few notes down and started the essays a week in advance

I mistakenly submitted a class evaluation of this professor thinking it was a different professor and class. So I thought I'd make up for it by giving a better and more deserved evaluation of him here.
Initially when I signed up for this class I was expecting our lecture on the Occult t involve spooky things like ghosts and ghouls; you know something straight out of Scooby Doo. However this class from the beginning till the end involved conversation and critiques on religion and it's roots in the Occult and witchcraft. For me being a student who has had a past of religion and is now attempting to drop it in exchange for other philosophies of life I thoroughly enjoyed hearing Teo give unbiased explanations of religious history. He managed to make every lecture engaging with his innuendos and good sense of humour. Though the class was made up of 400+ students he still somehow managed to make every student feel as if he was talking directly to them and cared for each and every one of us. If you get lucky and get an enrollment time good enough to get this class please do! I didn't need to take it but I'm so glad that I did. Also this class is only as fun as you are willing to make it. If you don't do the cool readings you won't understand Teo's passionate lectures and honestly the readings are so different that you actually might find yourself looking forward to them.

The class was pretty easy itself. I didn't really pay attention in lecture, and I was still able to get an A. But you should definitely go to lecture because he gives random quizzes that are really easy to check for your attendance. You really need to focus on doing well on the essay assignments which is graded by the TAs, keeping up with the reading assignments for discussion section where you have to participate to get points, and you'll do just fine.

Also, I'll selling some of the required text for the class for really cheap:
1. History 2C Course Reader
2. The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
2. The Terror of History by Teofilo Ruiz

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He is a great teacher. Great class

Took the class in Fall 2013. Professor Ruiz is one of the best professors I have taken at UCLA so far. The class is a good summary of historical events, but it never goes into too much detail for any time period. Overall, take this class for an easy GE and easy A.

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