Great lecturer, explains topics clearly and keeps them current, but brutal grader. Quizzes were impossible.

Unorganized, has changed the date on every test. The quiz wording is made to trick you, and the professor pulls from over 20 dense readings. He asks niche questions that, if you did the reading, you may still get wrong.

Unorganized, paragraphs on lecture slides, teaches like you already know a lot about the topics. Unrealistic reading expectations, vague quizzes.

This 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.