TA for our fall quarter needs to be trained better. Inconsistent grading all around. Never taking another pol sci class again.

Highly highly highly recommend taking this class. Great class and professor. Perry cares more about his students learning than if they write the perfect essay. Entire grade was midterm and final papers, but they are graded very fairly and you are given the entire quarter to prepare for them. Highly recommend!!

Professor had to cancel class a couple of times for personal reasons but was very forgiving and lenient with his grading throughout the quarter in return. Assignments were graded based on pass no pass, as long as you did them you would get a pass on them. Midterm and final were long but take home so you had a good amount of time to do them. As long as you wrote about what he was looking for, you would definitely pass the class easily.

Writing and Reading heavy but very doable. Final was a research essay building off of your midterm, which was a précis. Then the other assignments where 5 short 2-page "Mini Papers" that are graded based on understanding overall points rather than mastery.

Strange class, half this quarter was online and the professor was not happy about that, threw him off his groove. Lots of reading about IR theory but I thought it was interesting, and covers a lot of relevant topics. Then the war in Ukraine broke out and the professor basically gave up on the class curriculum, saying nothing was going as planned.

Final project research precis was tough to write, and I didn't get a lot of feedback. But it still stands as some of my best writing I've put out so far.

Beginning of class Perry might be intimidating and state you will read over 100 pages a week for the class. I read only a few of the readings for the entire class and still managed an A+. He records his lectures so the class mostly felt online for me. Your grade is based on five mini papers (pass or no pass and very easy), a midterm research précis, and final. Everything is beyond manageable. People find him to be uncommunicative for their grades. Message him on canvas and he usually responds. If you’re looking for a very easy and manageable class or just want a good POLISCI Professor, Professor Perry is 100% the one.