His slides are clear and he uses them as guides to which he elaborates on. I not only find the topics enthralling but his lectures are engaging and chock-full of relevant information. The only issue is now he has a grader (not his fault) instead of a TA and they grade based on a set of criteria (buzzwords) instead of content. ATTEND LECTURES!

I generally do pretty well in his classes, but I seriously struggled without a TA. On top of that, the course grader I genuinely dont think they read the readings because I was getting marked off for things that had a clear connection to the readings and really struggled without sections that enforced the assigned readings.

The criticisms are fair. There is an absurd amount of readings to do in the class, and the grading structure is disheartening. However, let's not act like the class isn't interesting. Study for exams, get the overall gist of the weekly readings, and take lengthly, but quality notes. He's very lenient with the exams. Just give complete answers.

actually so confusing

Good prof, but his lectures are way too theoretical and “academia” focused. Wish there was more real world application and discussion of current events. Cares too much about memorizing names of academia researchers. Ton of reading and most of it isn't well written or engaging, coming from a guy who loves IR. TAs were terrible this quarter.

Wow. get ready to read, get ready to memorize every reading for the final. No study guides/reviews are given, simply memorization. He is a great guy and everyone seems to like him, I just tend to not love his grading and teaching style. Having a good TA will help you a lot. Ahh lots of work but rewarding for sure.