Topic 3 went by really fast. We took a test over Topic 2 on Monday and spent Tuesday and Wednesday talking about the War of 1812 and on Thursday we are reviewing for the test on Monday. The professor mentioned that we are not in high school and that we can read the material on our own. He is right on that. All the information we are going to need is right in the text. We are grown ups that can read and manage our own studying skills.
On the other hand I am a bit disappointed in the fact that we couldn't go over some of the material in class. I know it isn't the professor's fault as he is limited on class time and he needs to meet a deadline in a few weeks of covering everything in his class. He tells certain points of history with such zest that it is fun hearing him speak on different topics. I would of liked to hear him speak of Daniel Boone's exploration or Manifest Destiny and heading out west. There is so much history between the ending of the Revolution to the beginning of the Civil War that we zipped right over it. Our professor usually gives hidden trivia about our countries history, that I find interesting, that is not in most history books and I enjoy that. Unfortunally, that wasn't able to happen this time.
I wish his class was a longer class, either in time or extended over the full course of the summer. It would give students, like me, a chance to hear more about our countries history in greater detail.
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