This is an excellent course and I have really enjoyed it. The topics covered are diverse and the course has provided me with several areas for further independent research.

This is a very well structured course, with an emphasis on the interpretation of images and films from wars. The highlight of the course for me personally was the interview with Julio Etchart in the final week. I would have liked to have explored more of his work, and also that of other photographers throughout the 20th Century, covering a wider range of historical events, not just wars.

The tutor, Dr. Emmett Sullivan is extremely knowledgeable, and very engaging. Despite what he says, I never bored of listening to his lectures where he is purely speaking to the camera. There is so much to learn and to take in, and this course doesn't disappoint. I can highly recommend it.

A note to the course producers - several of the links given in the reading modules are no longer valid, and just lead to dead pages.

Interesting subject and enjoyable time learning. I just realized how much I love learning. Thank you for this wonderful experience.

The Course was extremely insightful, and gave a superb initiation into photojournalism and its connection to public history. The course provided critical ways of viewing an image from history, and explained how a current image could also work as a historical source.

Just a suggestion: some links provided in the reading material seem to be broken or do not open for certain locations, and the lack of availability of the prescribed matter has a negative impact on the overall understanding of the week's content, and sometimes the quiz too. Perhaps this could be verified/ rectified?

The course is really interesting. Nevertheless, it often focuses too much in the context of historical events to finally discuss a single picture for just 5 minutes. Moreover, I've found the tests to be too much focused on really precise and sometimes anecdotical data instead of the general conclusions which, from my point of view, are a more reliable reflection of the learning success.

Great material in this course, though some of the links need to be updated.

The quizzes are not related to the topic of this course at all.

The course did an excellent job on little known issues such as those related to Hitler's early years, Stalin's manipulation of history, the Boer War, etc. But way too much of the class was devoted to the flag raising at Iwo Jima and the subsequent book and films. Ditto the events around Black Hawk Down. We should have had a lot more variety! While the peer-assessed assignments were interesting, it's disdheartening to have your grade based on wether or not someone else looked at it. Also we should not have been asked to grade 3 or 4 other assignments - one is enough. I was not happy with the quizzes either since too many of the questions related to which person said this or that and not enough to the events and the underlying causes for manipulation of reporting. Also time was wasted on listening to grad students talking about their own research and assignments. I would still recommend this course because I learned a lot of interesting things. And if you are like me, just taking the course for fun, you can skip over the areas you're not interested in, the quizzes and assignments.

The course is really interesting, but it need a content review. Several - roughly 50% - of the links for external contents, especially when they are from newspapers, are broken.

That considered, it was a fascinating journey.

disappointed, you enter is dedicated and is waiting an eternity for someone to evaluate their activities. A little sought after course, so you enter and do not know when you will receive your certificate, since there are no others to evaluate their activities

I really enjoyed this course. I signed up as I needed a few more activities related to my subject (history) on my UCAS application. Not only was it useful in that sense, I learnt so much on areas of history I had never even heard of. Recommend completely!

Excellent course, learn a great deal about the subject in a short time. This course and the program are great for those who strive to be life long learners.

Very useful and interesting.

super

Overall a great course. I enjoyed it and learned a lot. Tx for the effort and great job. As a recommendation, I would encourage the usage of more cases not necessarily linked to war periods. Although I understand they are among the most intense and where the topic is actually relevant, using different more diverse themes would be very enlightening. Anyway, as said, I sincerely appreciated the seminar. Carry on, please. Warm rgds,

Josep

Barcelona, Spain

I quite enjoyed the course, such eye-opening things I'd never learned prior to this experience. I was a bit disappointed that we spent so much time on Clint Eastwood's films and Iwo Jima (an important timespan in history) as I'd hoped for more iconic photographs to be broken down and digested. (Lee Harvey Oswald in the garden, the Hindenburg, Stieglitz's "Steerage") but the course does follow the syllabus very well. I'm grateful for the opportunity.

I enjoyed this course thoroughly - it gave me plenty of new insights into the study of visual discourse, which has helped bolster my own academic studies. If I were to have a single complaint (for which I have docked a star), is that a few of the links given for further reading are outdated and inaccessible. However I did not feel that this hindered my overall experience, albeit it being a tad inconvenient.

About half the links in this course are broken, which is very frustrating. I found the course content itself to be very interesting, though!

Good material courses. The only negative criticism is related to some repetition of content in some videos.

Many of course links are erase but in the test you insert questions from thinks that is not available

Professor from London should have porrfed his course prior to submission anf Coursera vetted for inaccuracies prior to posating. Labdeled as an arts and media couse; presented as a history/economics couse. I would have thought that this would be less oppinion heavy in contect. When I found it to be the cob=ntraty, tried to use as exercise in patience. The egregious error in mis-reading the final quote and fervently basing his argument on the mi-read quote thatHEplaced on the slide final slide of Week four, I decided yo leave the couse. As a result I wil No longer enroll in ANY courses given bt the instructor, and will more closely vet future educational options put forth by Coursera. Thank you.

This course is very informative and interesting. It will be very useful to anyone interested in the history of the 20th century, the interpretation of historical events through images.

Special thanks to Dr R Emmett Sullivan Program Director, BA History, University of London International Programs Senior Departmental Tutor in History, Royal Holloway, University of London and the Coursera educational platform for providing the opportunity to gain new knowledge.

I found the course very interesting in general, I think it meets the objectives that are defined and that I was interested in. One recommendation, take the time to review and update the links to different sites that are recommended to access to complement the content seen in the videos. Many of them are links to private or restricted access sites or definitely to content that is no longer available.

Enormously grateful to Emmett Sullivan for such amazing insight. This should be a GE course for all liberal arts colleges worldwide. Indeed, the camera never lies. Was not entirely satisfied with the randomly picked peers for review. Would have preferred a group of peers with similar competencies who understood the rubric.

This course is a wonderful exploration of historical interpretation of image manipulation or alteration. It was a splendid journey with Professor Emmett Sullivan to understand how history unfolds in front of the camera and how films can be considered as 'public history'. A good course for students of cinema studies, indeed.