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I think Peter’s really cares about her students, and I often found her engaging and funny. She is incredibly educated on the issue of migration and it shows through in her lectures. The content is genuinley engaging and I’m happy I took the class. That being said, the amount of content we were expected to know and the amount of assigned readings was quite a lot. You absolutely will fall behind if you’re not sticking to the reading schedule and attending every lecture and studying (which is what happened to me- I had to evacuate cause of the palisades fires and fell behind the start of class). That being said, this class isn’t impossible and Peter’s nor her TA’s want to see you fail. It will just take a lot of discipline and interest in the class topic in order to succeed because you will be consuming so much information weekly and you have to be prepared for that.
My one issue I had with the class, and where I saw a lot of people struggle was the lack of guidance in how to study for our quizzes. In this class our grades were based off a series of papers, quizzes, and one final collaborative paper. Everyone including myself did excellent on the papers because we had such thorough guidance and expectations on what was expected of us (and that’s what ultimately saved my grade). As for the quizzes, most people struggled because nobody knew how to study for them. One quiz would be test based, another would be lecture based, and another would be based on very specific details of one reading. There was no way to strategically study because the focus of each quiz was wildly different, and with the range of content we were expected to consume over several weeks it was impossible to memorize and prepare to do well on a quiz that felt like a series of trivia questions.
In all, if you have to, or want to take this class do so when you feel like you can take on the challenge and/or don’t need to take a very heavy course load for the quarter. It’s a genuinely intriguing class and I enjoyed Peter’s as a person, there was just so much content to engage with and memorize in order to do well with the class for better and worse. I would suggest taking this class if you’re ready.
Prof. Peters is organized but assigns too many readings that would counter act what was said during lecture. She also always finds a way to talk about how much she hates Trump every lectures which kind of gets annoying after it happening all the time. Professor Peters does know the material very well but I feel that she only talks about surface level things and could go into more detail for other topics. There are no assignments in the course other than unit tests (3) and one white paper. I think that it get difficult when the professor never mentions an assignment or test is due until a couple of days. Even though as student, we should be keeping track of our assignments, I think that it is very important for the professor to speak about them. If you are not very interested in migration then do not take this class. Majority of the people took this course because with was one of the last ones open during enrollment.
This class depends a lot on how comfortable you are with econ and econ policy. This class is the study of migration but mostly this class goes into how econ motivates people and states to accept or not accept immigrants.
You have to attend guest lectures which are boring.
There is a fair amount of reading which is pretty dense and some of the hardest I have read for a Poli-Sci.
During section, the TA cleared up a lot of the complex reading which made the class easier.
Class is graded on a curve and via the GroupMe, it seemed that most people Got B+ A- on the midterm and final.
The class was pretty straightforward but Peters' political bias shows itself during lectures and I found the subject material to be quite boring until the last couple of weeks of class. We were graded on attending guest lectures via Zoom, participating in the discussion sections, weekly quizzes, and two midterm/final take-home papers. The papers were graded fairly. It is virtually impossible to get less than an A in this class.
I definitely recommend this class. No textbook required, as Professor Peters provides all of them for free. Professor Peters is very kind, helpful, and empathetic towards her students. Her class is flexible, especially for the due dates of the weekly reading assignments (Quizzes on CCLE). Her recorded lectures aren't very long and are a great supplement that summarizes the main points of the weekly readings. However, attending the live lectures featuring guest speakers is mandatory for attendance grade, which IIRC there was only 6 throughout the quarter. If you cannot make it to the live lectures, you can submit a one-page summary of what you learned and might get some credit. To be clear, I am not one of those "laid back" students, so I did do all of the readings and felt that the exam questions were fair. To be more precise, I found the Final Exam to be a bit more complicated than the Midterm as the essay questions required deeper thinking. The essay exam requires you to write 4 essays in total, but each essay has a one-page limit and done in single-space, with a reference page at the end. The weekly reading assignments (Quizzes) was not too hard, but it would be if you didn't do the readings at all. Typically, the quizzes have 3-5 questions, and you have an hour to submit. Be sure to do some of the readings before the discussion sections, as you are expected to answer questions as a group. Your TA will be the ones who grades everything. Thank you, Professor Peters, for the great quarter!!
I think Peter’s really cares about her students, and I often found her engaging and funny. She is incredibly educated on the issue of migration and it shows through in her lectures. The content is genuinley engaging and I’m happy I took the class. That being said, the amount of content we were expected to know and the amount of assigned readings was quite a lot. You absolutely will fall behind if you’re not sticking to the reading schedule and attending every lecture and studying (which is what happened to me- I had to evacuate cause of the palisades fires and fell behind the start of class). That being said, this class isn’t impossible and Peter’s nor her TA’s want to see you fail. It will just take a lot of discipline and interest in the class topic in order to succeed because you will be consuming so much information weekly and you have to be prepared for that.
My one issue I had with the class, and where I saw a lot of people struggle was the lack of guidance in how to study for our quizzes. In this class our grades were based off a series of papers, quizzes, and one final collaborative paper. Everyone including myself did excellent on the papers because we had such thorough guidance and expectations on what was expected of us (and that’s what ultimately saved my grade). As for the quizzes, most people struggled because nobody knew how to study for them. One quiz would be test based, another would be lecture based, and another would be based on very specific details of one reading. There was no way to strategically study because the focus of each quiz was wildly different, and with the range of content we were expected to consume over several weeks it was impossible to memorize and prepare to do well on a quiz that felt like a series of trivia questions.
In all, if you have to, or want to take this class do so when you feel like you can take on the challenge and/or don’t need to take a very heavy course load for the quarter. It’s a genuinely intriguing class and I enjoyed Peter’s as a person, there was just so much content to engage with and memorize in order to do well with the class for better and worse. I would suggest taking this class if you’re ready.
Prof. Peters is organized but assigns too many readings that would counter act what was said during lecture. She also always finds a way to talk about how much she hates Trump every lectures which kind of gets annoying after it happening all the time. Professor Peters does know the material very well but I feel that she only talks about surface level things and could go into more detail for other topics. There are no assignments in the course other than unit tests (3) and one white paper. I think that it get difficult when the professor never mentions an assignment or test is due until a couple of days. Even though as student, we should be keeping track of our assignments, I think that it is very important for the professor to speak about them. If you are not very interested in migration then do not take this class. Majority of the people took this course because with was one of the last ones open during enrollment.
This class depends a lot on how comfortable you are with econ and econ policy. This class is the study of migration but mostly this class goes into how econ motivates people and states to accept or not accept immigrants.
You have to attend guest lectures which are boring.
There is a fair amount of reading which is pretty dense and some of the hardest I have read for a Poli-Sci.
During section, the TA cleared up a lot of the complex reading which made the class easier.
Class is graded on a curve and via the GroupMe, it seemed that most people Got B+ A- on the midterm and final.
The class was pretty straightforward but Peters' political bias shows itself during lectures and I found the subject material to be quite boring until the last couple of weeks of class. We were graded on attending guest lectures via Zoom, participating in the discussion sections, weekly quizzes, and two midterm/final take-home papers. The papers were graded fairly. It is virtually impossible to get less than an A in this class.
I definitely recommend this class. No textbook required, as Professor Peters provides all of them for free. Professor Peters is very kind, helpful, and empathetic towards her students. Her class is flexible, especially for the due dates of the weekly reading assignments (Quizzes on CCLE). Her recorded lectures aren't very long and are a great supplement that summarizes the main points of the weekly readings. However, attending the live lectures featuring guest speakers is mandatory for attendance grade, which IIRC there was only 6 throughout the quarter. If you cannot make it to the live lectures, you can submit a one-page summary of what you learned and might get some credit. To be clear, I am not one of those "laid back" students, so I did do all of the readings and felt that the exam questions were fair. To be more precise, I found the Final Exam to be a bit more complicated than the Midterm as the essay questions required deeper thinking. The essay exam requires you to write 4 essays in total, but each essay has a one-page limit and done in single-space, with a reference page at the end. The weekly reading assignments (Quizzes) was not too hard, but it would be if you didn't do the readings at all. Typically, the quizzes have 3-5 questions, and you have an hour to submit. Be sure to do some of the readings before the discussion sections, as you are expected to answer questions as a group. Your TA will be the ones who grades everything. Thank you, Professor Peters, for the great quarter!!
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