the professor is kind and interesting. this class asks too much of its students as a GE. the course content is genuinely so necessary and interesting, but it was too much effort for a GE! lectures are not recorded

I think it was an extremely interesting class that provided great insight into the major and comprised of contemporary readings , podcasts and one Q&A with professionals in the field. The discussion questions were based on readings which were interesting and fun to read! The only thing I disliked was with regard to grades and how they were handled. They could have been told to us sooner so we accordingly could plan for our finals. Also, it would be nice to have had some more time with the professor one on one and had her reply to emails a bit more regularly. Otherwise, I think the class content was pretty interesting and I'd take it again save for more transparency in grading and extra credit!

It was a good and interesting class, it was pretty easy just a lot of reading. The projects were not bad along with the final and midterm. I recommend this class if you dont mind reading.

There aren't homework assignments, aside from the readings, and most of your grade is contingent on the midterm/final/discussion participation. I felt like the readings were too repetitive and long for a GE class, so I wouldn't take it again. Content was interesting (it is basically ap hug I've heard) but I felt like we didn't do much with it throughout the course.

Unfortunately, I would not recommend taking this class as a GE. The entire grade is based on a group project, final, midterm, and discussion participation, and as a result, there is no clarity to what your grade might be. You’re expected to memorize authors and ideas of multiple 30+ page readings, that only have like 1 key idea related to the course. While I really appreciated my TA and her discussion section, the amount of participation needed was extremely unclear. Slides discussed in lecture were extremely vague and didn’t help much in terms of the final and midterm.

This class is not the easy GE you expect it to be. As an incoming freshman, I signed up to take this class with the hope of it being interesting and easy. It was neither. The topics, homework assignments, the readings are all super vague, boring and irrelevant to the material that you are tested on during the midterm and final exam. Lectures make it painfully difficult to stay awake as the professor talks about case studies that genuinely do nothing to further my knowledge on the greater concepts of the course. The professor is also frequently 10 minutes late to lecture. You are expected to do multiple 10-40 page readings to prepare for each class, which I simply did not have the time to get done. For the tests, the professor makes you memorize the names of these authors from readings. For studying, I memorized the names of these authors instead of actually learning about the concepts from the course, as the professor instructed. This class has the potential to be interesting with its concepts, but to be honest, this professor simply made it a complete and total let down. I did enjoy my discussion section with TA Christina Toma, so if you can take this with her, it makes it less dreadful. But in lecture, this professor just makes it a painful course to suffer through. The midterm and final also consisted of many vague and ambiguous multiple choice questions that led to poor scores and questions about content from my friends and I. As a political science major, avoid this class with this professor at all costs.