Dr. Armstrong is a good lecturer and she certainly makes the material interesting, but she really lacks in the multimedia department. She also spends an inordinate amount of time telling people to be quiet.
In terms of material, she tended to focus on Petrarch and Humanism, Martin Luther and the Reformation, the Tudors, and Louis XIII - XVIII.
By virtue of being an archaeology student/disciple, I'm kinda a history buff, so my opinion on the interest level of this course may be a bit biased; however, I still think it's a course worth taking. The material itself should be enough of a reason to take this class, since it is such an important era in the history of Western culture. To not know this stuff would be to be an eternal schmuck.