POL SCI 119
Special Studies in Political Theory
Description: Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Preparation: one course in Field I. Requisite: course 10. Designed for juniors/seniors. Intensive examination of one or more special problems appropriate to political theory. Sections offered on regular basis, with topics announced in preceding term. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2022 - This is in response to his Latin American Political Theory – Rocco is very knowledgeable, and I liked the course material a lot; however the class was terribly structured. Rocco would have us do these extremely difficult quizzes that were more about memorization than understanding the concepts (one time the average was a 4/15). The concepts were difficult to understand, and he did not spend a lot of time helping students understand them more. The final consisted of an 8-10 page response paper that asked students to basically regurgitate the readings/lecture back to him, and did not let students know that attendance would severely affect peoples' grades (class was on zoom, if you missed more than 2 classes you could see your grade drop up to a whole letter grade depending on how he was feeling). Id caution anyone thinking about taking this class.
Spring 2022 - This is in response to his Latin American Political Theory – Rocco is very knowledgeable, and I liked the course material a lot; however the class was terribly structured. Rocco would have us do these extremely difficult quizzes that were more about memorization than understanding the concepts (one time the average was a 4/15). The concepts were difficult to understand, and he did not spend a lot of time helping students understand them more. The final consisted of an 8-10 page response paper that asked students to basically regurgitate the readings/lecture back to him, and did not let students know that attendance would severely affect peoples' grades (class was on zoom, if you missed more than 2 classes you could see your grade drop up to a whole letter grade depending on how he was feeling). Id caution anyone thinking about taking this class.
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