Intended as a core seminar in American Politics. Covers the literature on individual political behavior in the United States. Topics include theoretical approaches to studying individual political behavior and foundational research on topics such as the nature and consequences of the public's knowledge about politics, persuasion, political identity, ideology, values, tolerance, prejudice, public opinion, participation, and voting.

Prerequisites: GRADUATE STANDING.

4

Units

Letter

Grading

1, 2, 3

Passtime

Graduate students only

Level Limit

Letters and science

College
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Christopher Parker
1.9
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POLS12 . Parker C S 5 Months Ago

most awful person I've ever met

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POLS12 . Parker C S 1 Year, 5 Days Ago

This person is incredibly inappropriate. Rude to WOC. Inappropriate behavior and language. Please beware.

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POLS12 . Parker C S 1 Year, 1 Month Ago

Clearly a passionate professor, but severely lacked work ethic. I loved his passion which is the reason he is rated a 2 and not a 1, and his lecture slides were cool, but since it was his first time teaching the course he made the Midterm unreasonably difficult, and the final was unreasonably easy. I got through the class without reading barely

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106AS . Parker C S 1 Year, 2 Months Ago

Lots of reading about 1 book/week. Lectures do not directly explain the readings, they instead give you real life examples, without explicitly stating it—if you dont read you wont do well.Not too harsh with grades, participation is a decent %. If you dont want to read in full extract key theories from books and really pay attention to lectures

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106AS . Parker C S 1 Year, 2 Months Ago

Professor Parker is a tough teacher, but his tactic is to scare the students to make sure they put in the effort. There were a ton of curve balls in this class, but I learned a lot. If you want a challenge and are passionate about learning about the social movements that affect our society, then he is the guy.

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POLS12 . Parker C S 1 Year, 2 Months Ago

The most ridiculous course I have ever taken. content is not difficult, but the way of teaching is not objective as an introductory course, he set the entire syllabus to be race focused while ignoring all other aspects. the way of teaching that topic is also biased without an objective presentation of both sides. grading system is not specified.

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