A seminar focused on work-shopping and discussing cutting-edge work in Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Economy. The expectation is that students specializing in CP and IR will enroll continuosly, with differentiated assignments appropriate to stage in the program. Students will present their own work, comment on the work of others, and engage in professional development activities. In a typical quarter, the worksshop may involve 3 weeks where an outside speaker present on work in progress, 3 weeks where faculty present their work, 3 weeks where graduate students present work, and 1 week of professional development activities.
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UnitsOptional
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeNone
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeThis was one of the worst classroom experiences I've had. I don't recommend anyone take any class with him, which is a shame because he teaches an important and timely topic. He's a tough grader, which is fine, but the way he interacts with students conveys a lack of care and general respect that shouldn't be prevalent for an instructor.
His ME class is really good, the pols readings are really interesting but come with reading a lot of history too; also, he DOWN CURVED us (the next grade down) even after miscommunication between him and his TA's cost everyone a quiz grade (TAs didn't own up to the miscommunication and he took their word over ours)
Professor isn't very nice, he's very serious. There's 3 quizzes each worth 10%. First is the map quiz, next 2 are mcq and you need to actually study for these to do well. Final research paper is about 10 pages, they grade it harshly. I barely took notes and procrastinated everything (got an A). Just study the relevant stuff and ignore the rest.
I would not recommend taking this class. His lectures are not very engaging, there is a lot of reading for this class, and communication between him and his TAs are unclear. Miscommunication resulted in very low quiz scores for the majority of the class, making or breaking students' grades. Professor is very knowledgable but do not recommend!
Not a very nice guy
THIS PROFESSOR DOWN CURVES. Did very well on all of the assignments, but then they graded the final paper VERY harshly. Even if you finish with an A raw score, he will down-curve so beware. Boring lectures & attendance not mandatory. Take at your own risk
Satyajit Singh
4.1
Laurie Freeman
2.4