Professor Roberts is a nice guy. The class is pretty easy throughout. He doesn't always seem to know what he's talking about and him and his reader have way different standards of what assignments should be like. My issue with the class is that I received 98% and above on every assignment except the midterm (which I got 93%) and the final presentation brought me down to a B+ so I was pretty disappointed in his distribution. He gives templates for how to do assignments then his reader constantly calls almost every submission "minimalist" (for everyone not just me) and gives childish comments like "sigh....this is so minimalist." Other than that, it's doable and easy.

This wasn't my favorite class I've taken (I'm not a big fan of econ), but I definitely think the previous reviews are a little extra. This class had a pretty big workload with a ton of reading each week, reading quizzes before every lecture, research memos, problem sets, and a midterm and final (which I didn't take because it was optional). However, Roberts was really understanding about how overwhelming it could be and extended the due dates for problem sets and research memos a few times. In regards to the midterm, the multiple-choice questions are pulled from the quizzes and the other section is from the sets and memos, so as long as you make a quizlet or some form of study guide AND review your assignments (assuming you do well on them), you'll do fine. Just a heads up, he is a quick lecturer, but he posts the slides online and they're really detailed so you can always go back and review! Overall, I like Roberts and the material was kinda interesting (again, not a big econ fan to begin with), just beware that the class demands a lot, but it's definitely manageable.

There will be times when you don't understand the concepts and will have to ask your classmates. Make someone your study buddy. There are weekly readings for this class with 2 quizzes every week. The exam can be hard especially if there is not enough time. Good luck

Professor Tyson is a very kind professor and I enjoyed this class. The class consisted of homework, which was coding and creating basic graphs with simple code. I had some tech issues with the final and midterm but Prof Tyson was understanding. Extra credit questions were also offered. The content of this class was relatively boring, however since it is a major requirement for Political Science I would recommend taking this class with Prof Tyson.

I honestly thought this class was very difficult. I had taken ECON 1 and ECON 2 at community college before taking this course but still felt that the class was fast-paced for me without enough time for me to fully understand and be able to actually apply the material.

The class consisted of lecture quizzes, participation, research exercises, midterm, final, and a final paper. Both the midterm and the final were open-note, but even so I felt so underprepared and thought that the exams were very difficult, especially to complete within the allotted time. (The study guides provided were not very aligned with the actual exams)

I also personally did not really like his lecturing style as it was a little too fast and very often scatterbrained. The only things that really kept my grade together were participation, the lecture quizzes, and the research exercises (he also dropped a lot of the lowest grades of these assignments).

One thing I will give the professor is that he is very willing to answer questions and help students during office hours, but even so, I feel like the pace at which this class is taught requires that you either understand the information super quick or already have somewhat of a foundational understanding of the subject. I think I went to his office twice during his office hours over the course of the quarter (I would've loved if we could've gotten extra credit for even just doing that just because I was ever so desperate :/ )There was also 1% extra credit for completing the instructor evaluation at the end of the quarter.

Overall, I would not say that I strongly recommend that you take this class.

Professor Tysons is the most disorganized and rushed lecturer poli sci professor I've experienced and this class was in general very poorly taught and structured. I actually found the material being taught pretty easy, but that's in part due to me having a background in econ and also because I know how this man teaches. He bases all his midterms and quizzes on the textbook, so you'll honestly have a better time just taking very detailed notes from the textbook instead of trying to pay attention to his rambles he calls lectures. It shouldn't be too difficult to succeed in this class if you just keep up with the readings and reading quizzes. The workload is also massive for this class, so be prepared for that. The midterm and final are tough because there's limited time but as I said, as long as you keep up with the readings you should be fine.

Overall I really enjoyed this class and Tyson as well. He clearly cares about what he's teaching. Lectures are based off of academic readings. The readings are dense, but its easy to skim them and get the main ideas without reading the whole thing. The midterm and final are also based on the readings, so not falling behind is super important. Pretty easy GE that requires low effort amounts of work.

This class wasn't too bad overall. The only thing that sucked about this class was that he gave out a lot of homework and that burnt me out pretty early on. The homework isn't too difficult either, it's just reading and completing activities through CourseKata but it can be a lot and feel tedious at times. Professor is also generous with grading. Homework is graded based on completion and you also earn participation credit by completing weekly Jupyter notebooks, which provides a nice boost to your grade. He also offers extra credit at the beginning and end of the quarter. He also has two grading schemes, one of them counts homework and participation as 35% of your grade!

With exams, we had no midterms just 4 quizzes (2 of them were take home quizzes) and an optional final. His quizzes are similar to the weekly Jupyter notebooks so if you understand those, you should be fine. He also had quizzes/tests be open note just in case you forget a command.

Overall Professor Roberts and the TAs were cool and understanding and really took in student feedback (and actually listened to it). This is a good class to take if you want to explore data analytics but I wouldn't recommend taking this class if you're already taking on a heavy courseload because there's times where this class can overwhelming. I personally came out of this being more interested in a career in data analytics even though I'm a north campus major and don't really like numbers

Professor Roberts is by far BY FARRR the best professor I've had at UCLA. I took him for ps 30 and ps 169-authoritarian regimes. His classes do require a lot, a lottttt, of work, but they are graded very easily. He provides numerous extra credit opportunities and is a very fair teacher. To be honest, at times the amount of work did bother me, but I feel like I know as much as I do about the class without cramming because of those assignments. I would definitely take this professor if you get the chance

This class was kind of a train wreck organizationally and logistically speaking, but I didn't think it was bad overall. Professor Roberts came up with two different ways to calculate the final grade, one more homework/participation based, and one more test based. The weekly homework from the textbooks took FOREVER but it was very useful because that's where I learned the bulk of the material- not from lecture. I felt like lectures were kind of pointless because we just worked on these in-class coding worksheets as a group, but he moved SO SLOWLY and we never finished a whole worksheet. I'd recommend just completing them with your TA or on your own time, since lecture attendance isn't mandatory. There were four quizzes that were the majority of the final grade. The quizzes were extremely similar to the in-class worksheets so just make sure you complete those (after each worksheet is due, Prof. Roberts would post the answers so if you go back and check your answers, you're set). I think people just struggled with timing because the quizzes were LONG af. He drops your lowest quiz score AND he even offered a re-do for one of the quizzes that everyone bombed. Finally, he made the final optional at the request of the students, so he's super understanding and chill.