Overall, the class and workload was really manageable. During discussion, part of our participation grade was to go into breakout sections and fill out a google form which consisted of questions about key concepts in the week's readings. Although it was sometimes hard to keep up with the readings, this really helped keep me accountable and up to date with all of the topics. We had 4 quizzes consisting of 5 questions each throughout the 10 weeks but they were manageable since we only had to respond to 4 questions, and the 5th question was simply an extra credit opportunity in case we got one of the other questions wrong. The class had a math component which many people struggled with, but the Professor and the TA made sure they explained everything well and went through practice problems.

One midterm (in class), one final exam (in class and cumulative), four quizzes (lowest one dropped), and participation. Sounds like a lot, but it's a doable class and Rogowski is a great lecturer. He is incredibly knowledgeable in his field and actually quite renowned. Overall, take this class if you want an interesting poli sci upper division.

Professor Rogowski was very knowledgable about the material and was very welcoming in my reaching out to him. I would recommend him as a professor.

Let me start off by saying that I ended up doing alright in this class and that Rogowski means well as a person. Now to the actual class, one of the worst decisions I have made as far as class selections. I figured comparative politics would mean that we would actually study relative to the subject area. Yea, that was not the case at all. This was a class based on political economy, which is fine but it would be nice to know ahead of time that that was what we were enrolling in. I talked to many in the class who felt the same way as I did as far as feeling lost half the time. This was a class for econ majors not political science. Going into the midterm and final you had no idea what was on there even though a study guide was given since he said that anything from lecture and readings was fair game. However, to his defense most the questions asked did come from the study guide. Finally, how a class of over 100 people can have participation worth 30% of your grade with no discussion is mind boggling to me. While he later knocked it down to 20%, it still amazes me how professors feel the need to have particpation as a large percentage of the grade. Overall, the class is stressful and the subject material is dry making the class a terrible choice.