{"id":2933,"date":"2022-08-14T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T18:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:20:47","slug":"why-i-love-the-utc-history-program-passionate-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2022\/08\/14\/why-i-love-the-utc-history-program-passionate-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love the UTC History Program \u2014 Passionate Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#fdfdfd\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:32px\">UTC History students on why they love the UTC history program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"color:#1f618d\">The teachers are super knowledgeable, friendly, and passionate about their historical focuses.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Salem Zegarra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"color:#1f618d\">I love the passion [professors have] for their respective fields. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Diego Rojas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"color:#1f618d\">I admire all of the great professors I have had while studying history. Each professor inspired me and pushed me to do more and learn more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Stephen A. Thomas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"color:#1f618d\">The wealth of knowledge the professors bring and the educational content they are so eager and passionate to bring into their classrooms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Michael Bardas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"color:#1f618d\">I can tell the professors teaching me are passionate about their subjects. This helps me better learn in classes and be excited and passionate about them too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Anonymous<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"color:#1f618d\">The professors are incredibly fun and interesting. I have yet to encounter a boring history professor at UTC and I have enjoyed every course I have taken. I feel like they challenge students to develop and grow as history students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Mikaela Brook Forrester<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-normal-font-size\" style=\"color:#1f618d\">I love that our history program is so much about what we as students think rather than teachers only teaching us what they think. 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