This course was challenging in many respects, the majority of which were unrelated to the difficulty of the material itself. The professor was difficult to follow in lecture due to the quiet, mumbled, and monotone voice he consistently used to describe the material. The powerpoints were poorly organized, such that one could not follow the order of topics from main idea into detail; the main ideas were unclear and lost among hundreds of slides containing extremely detailed points about the examples, theories, readings and authors. Although the class was broken down into topic subsections that were outlined at the beginning of the quarter, the professor did an extremely poor job with relating new information to those main topics such that they were lost among the sea of information presented. This class seemed extremely interesting prior to stepping foot in the lecture hall and regrettably has fallen short of every expectation I had for it. The only saving grace is that the final was not cumulative and the exams are both curved but I do not feel like I learned anything in this class.

Do not take this class, it was really dumb how hard this class is. I am a poli sci major who rarely struggles in classes--and I actually studied hard. The midterm curve is insane because the test is too hard. He is very boring at lecture- so monotoned and so quiet. Not worth time, I don't know if he's a good researcher but definitely not meant to be a professor.