Just terrible. Way, way, way, removed from the current generation.

Professor Stohl is a terrible lecturer he rambles about one topic for so long and ends up confusing everyone. His lectures are hard to follow and so boring. Class attendance was 10% because most students did not go. Your grade consisted of 2 papers with the final paper being about 25 pages.

Grades relatively hard on papers, nothing too crazy, but there's a lot of papers throughout the quarter. Fortunately these are "take home" though. Lectures tend to feel like droning on and on and it's easy to space out, fortunately, he doesn't test on minute details, but it's hard to get the motivation to go to lecture sometimes.

Boring lecturer. Not engaginf whatsoever. He would put just a bunch of text up on the screen and read it word for word from the slides. Lectures felt like the lasted centuries. He was not personable or approachable. No multiple choice exams- only papers. Personally- I don't mind this structure, but if you dont like to write... SKIP this class fs.

If you don't enjoy writing about politics don't take this class. Grade based on 3 short papers + 16 page final. Grading criteria, while not clear is easy enough and the papers require very minimal reading if you're somewhat familiar with politics and media. Lectures are entertaining if you enjoy dry humor, but theres no need to attend class.

I would not recommend this class, even to fulfill a writing requirement. Your entire grade is based on 4 papers, all of which are based on a TON of dry readings. Lectures are also extremely boring and feel out of date.