Zachary Matus
Nov 20, 2025 · Historical comment
love prof matus!! his lectures can we tough to pay attention to because his slides are only images but he tries to keep in engaging. (also classes are short and often lets us out early)
HIST1001 · History
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
The course focuses on Europe and the world from the Black Death through the Haitian Revolution. Topics covered in the course include the Black Death and Renaissance, European expansion across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, Europe and the Ottoman Turks, religious reformation and warfare, early capitalism and transatlantic slavery, early modern science and the Enlightenment, and the French and Haitian Revolutions.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.3 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.2 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.4 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.0 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~3
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
Ratings below reflect only recovered evaluations connected to this course.
Visiting Instructor, History Department
4.5 / 5
4.0 / 5
Associate Professor, History Department
3.2 / 5
2.9 / 5
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Study of Constitutional Democracy
4.2 / 5
4.0 / 5
Part Time Faculty, Dean MCBC Administration
4.4 / 5
4.1 / 5
Associate Professor, History Department
4.6 / 5
4.1 / 5
Professor, History Department
4.3 / 5
3.9 / 5
Student perspective
Recovered and new anonymous comments are shown as written and may reflect different course formats.
Nov 20, 2025 · Historical comment
love prof matus!! his lectures can we tough to pay attention to because his slides are only images but he tries to keep in engaging. (also classes are short and often lets us out early)
Nov 17, 2025 · Historical comment
Not great, not bad. Pretty boring and dry, but pretty easy quizzes and exams. It'll be a fine way to fulfill your history core.
May 10, 2025 · Historical comment
Very excited and passionate professor. Take his class for the History Core.
Across time
Section-level results available in the recovered archive.
Fall 2024
16 sectionsSpring 2024
16 sectionsFall 2023
10 sectionsFall 2022
7 sectionsSpring 2022
13 sectionsFall 2021
5 sectionsFall 2020
13 sections