- Near future Leo's,
My name is Professor Allyson Brantley,
I teach US history and
actually all kinds of history
in the Department of History
and political science at La Verne.
I wanna be among the many people
who are congratulating you
on your admission to the
University of La Verne.
And I wanna talk a little
bit here just briefly
about the kinds of classes that I teach
and the opportunities you can
have as a history student,
or even a history major.
So I teach US history from the beginning
all the way to the present.
I also teach classes in Latino history,
in broader discussions of
methodology of history,
so thinking about what it
means to be a historian.
And because of my interest
in social movements
and radical activism,
I also teach classes that
focus on those issues.
Last year, I taught a
seminar that dealt with
radical resistance in the
20th century across the globe.
And that was in response to some students
saying they wanted a class like that.
So one of the things that I
really love about La Verne
is the way in which I am
in contact with students.
I respond to their needs
and their interests
and we craft classes together.
Another thing that's really exciting
that I do with my students,
because of our small class sizes that over
is we go on lots of field trips
and trips out into the local community
to learn more about history and museums.
In the past two years alone,
I've taken students to
the University of Southern
California's queer archives,
the one national lesbian and gay archives.
I've also taken them to a small archive
called the social science research library
in South Central Los Angeles.
We've gone to the Reagan
Museum or the Reagan Library,
as well as the Nixon
Library more recently.
So there's a lot of
opportunities to get out there
and do cool things.
And many of our history
students have gone on to work
in museums to work in public history.
I have a number of students
who are currently working
on their master's degrees
at Cal State Fullerton,
at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo,
and Cal State LA, so I'm
really proud of the work
my students have done.
I love teaching at La Verne,
and I'm excited to welcome
you into a history class
whether as it general elective
or even if you wanna take the plunge
and do the major.
I hope to see you soon
and feel free to reach out
if you have any questions.
