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I greatly enjoyed this course. Yes, it's pretty basic and lacking in depth at times but hey it's a beginner's course, designed to introduce the topic and highlight the main areas which you can then go off and look into in more detail off-line. It's very wide-ranging, covers off the key issues/themes and does it with passion and intelligence. There is some housekeeping to do around the final assignment where a key link was broken and hadn't been repaired but otherwise, highly enjoyable. It filled the Covid 19 lockdown admirably; thank you!

Good and interesting course. I think videos could be made more entertaining, lectures are very dense and I think they could be broken up a bit more, and the links for the final assignment are not working (You need to take a deep look into the forums to find working links and guides made by classmats) and I think the "optional" videos should not be optional and be evaluated as well. Other than that, the course is very fun, interesting and there's a lot to learn from it.

When I first read the title I thought it would be very different to what it really is. It's interesting from an historical point of view.

The inquisition and religions are the main topic, and how they treated magic back then, but it doesn't explain much of what was done.

I couldn't complete the last assignments because the links are broken, I suppose because the course is a little bit old.

All information is useful and interesting. Teachers are kind and you can tell they love their field. Unfortunately the videos are too simple; no extra images, important sentences (very few) it´s just the person talking. I had to just read the transcripts in order no to fall asleep.

It is a very interesting course, but in the beginning it may seem a bit disorganised and slow. The best part, for me, was the week 4, about magic in Islam. The topic was fascinating and the teachers presented a perfect lecture, a great balance between deep but easy to follow.

Mostly a very well thought out and interesting course - the week dedicated to magic and Islam was mostly a list of names and so quite dull. Some issues with the peer assignments - links not working etc.

Enjoyable course; but I sort of seemed to lose focus or interest in Week 5; would have liked more time spent on the concepts in the first four weeks. The Geomany video needs improvement.

Overall a good course, with a section on Islam and Magic that felt very well elaborated. All peer graded exercises however were poorly designed and had awful correction criteria.

First class, very interesting. Lot of facts and somethings I already knew from history class. Good introduction to coursera and view of magic

Very difficult to understand! Both the audio and the written text.

I had to do additional research to understand the flow of information.

The video quality needs improvement and some terms students are not familiar with might be better understood with more explanation.

It was quite informative but boring a little bit at the same time, and I found it a little bit complex as well.

Content was good, but could not complete the coursework due to dead links

class was interesting but thae assignment didnt make sense so i with

Good class

Para avanzar hay que esperar que los demas companeros participen de la calificacion de 2 asignaciones, sin eso, no se puede obtener avanzar para obtener el certificado, y no se sabe cuando suceda, esa parte deberian mejorarla o cambiarla

The way things were worded made little to no since, and were very confusing if not completely not understandable.

It good, but unfortunately I could not finish the course due to last exam because have broken links

Although there was a sheer volume of information, I'm giving one star for the actual execution of this course. The first two weeks were pretty decent and the content was interesting. The third week was horrible in that I wasted my time on an essay in which I followed what was asked of me but "didn't meet the criteria" after the fact. How?? Oh, because it wasn't explained clearly. I see I'm not the only one in the review section that has had an issue with that. The fourth week was absolutely even more terrible than the third, with two gentlemen bombarding us with names and dates at a record-breaking speed without really tying everything together. It was very boring but I decided to stick it out. Fortunately in week five, the essay expectations were clearer but waiting around for peer reviews is not something I'm ever interested in doing again. This particular course as well as Coursera in general are not a good fit for me.

I only took Chapter One, but the scoring system didn't work no matter what I did. Interesting material but if the quiz won't function, there's not much point to taking the course.

the martial is good but the test and assignments are horrible not possible to pass them at all its not worth taking at all

Very difficult course.