I LOVED this class. I took Pol 12 and Prof Bimber did a fantastic job. He's a great lecturer and organized presenter. Lecture flew by. There's lots of reading for this class, but the content's interesting so I didn't mind. Highly recommend!

Loved this class! You have to put in the work for an A and there is a lot of reading every week, but the content of the class was super interesting. I really enjoyed Professor Bimber's lectures! Take good notes in lecture, it will help for the tests. 3 easy writing assignments, 2 midterms and 1 final. The TAs were also great and super helpful.

Amazing professor! He made the material so interesting and knows how to engage you. There are 3 writing assignments (two of which are based on what is said in section). Two midterms and a final. They aren't crazy hard, the TAs are very sweet and want you to succeed. He does expect you to read an entire textbook and everything is said in lecture

Great lectures which exam SAQs always pull from, so take super-detailed notes. Quizzes are easy to pass. Readings are dense and not often seen on exams, but do them anyways. Covers very interesting modern-day material. Has definitely improved on making exam questions match lecture content — just pay attention. TAs are friendly and accessible.

Bimber was an enjoyable lecturer and professor overall. However, he said certain material would be on the exams and then used completely different material and blindsided everyone. Had 1 midterm and 1 final that were weighted pretty heavily and included MCQs along with SAQs. Felt like they were looking for pretty specific things on the SAQ portion.

I wanted to like this class, but I was told verbatim by a TA "we were only allowed to give out a limited number 10/10s" by the professor on tests, despite the accuracy of student responses. This was extremely frustrating and I would not take this class again due to his grading policies.