Difficult, but professor is very knowledgeable and you have many chances to learn very pivotal global topics. Maybe it's useful being assigned so much work, you start to handle the stress and time management better. Lectures can feel like public speaking which kinda drags on.

Passionate, extremely knowledgeable professor who values intellectual discourse. People complaining "political bias" just do not want their views (or ego) challenged at all by a highly distinguished professor with decades of research expertise. There's weekly essays, but many free extra credit points added automatically. Easy, eye-opening class.

He is not a very nice guy. His opinions are STRONG and welcomes those who challenge it... or so he says. Any disagreement will be met with a short fuse and very little respect. I would reccomend staying clear. There is a reason his class doesn't fill, even with how easy it is.

This professor bases most of your grade on attending a 3-hour lecture where your camera must stay on, and proceeds to ramble about his political bias, along with bright yellow writing on slides where he cites only his own books, which are the required readings and must be purchased. Unorganized, and even the TAs won't respond to emails.

Lectures felt so chaotic and disjointed I could barely take notes, and much of it felt like him talking in circles and implying things that aren't entirely true/skewed a certain way. Attendance is majority of grade, plus 3 essays. Prompts are vague and confusing, especially essay 1, he does not answer questions. His TAs keep the class afloat.

Look, he is a good professor, and I can tell he knows his stuff. But he gets so wound up in his political biases that it draws a big line between views in the class. People argue, and he cuts them off after 1 minute. he stands far left, and you can tell the way the class is taught is from left sources only. Politics aside, it could be taught better