POL SCI 142A
Political Parties and Interest Groups: Political Parties
Description: Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 40. Designed for juniors/seniors. Organization and activities of political parties in U.S. Attention to historical development of parties, nature of party change, campaign functions and electoral role of parties, membership problems and party activists, political finance, and policy formulation practices. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2022 - Do not take this class. The weekly reading quizzes are like mini exams every week that take up a large chunk of your grade, and they are extremely nit picky and hard. On numerous occasions, you have 4 days to do 180-200+ pages of reading, while having to prepare to do the quiz on those pages of reading. Students have constantly told him that the quizzes are unmanageable, but he does not seem to adjust the difficulty. I have had to neglect my other classes to focus on this one. I am not kidding when I say this class equates to the workload of two Poli sci classes. It has been an extremely strenuous quarter due to this singular class. I would avoid taking this class is possible. If you must, you absolutely have to do the readings and pay a painstakingly amount of attention to every little detail as literally anything could be on the quiz.
Winter 2022 - Do not take this class. The weekly reading quizzes are like mini exams every week that take up a large chunk of your grade, and they are extremely nit picky and hard. On numerous occasions, you have 4 days to do 180-200+ pages of reading, while having to prepare to do the quiz on those pages of reading. Students have constantly told him that the quizzes are unmanageable, but he does not seem to adjust the difficulty. I have had to neglect my other classes to focus on this one. I am not kidding when I say this class equates to the workload of two Poli sci classes. It has been an extremely strenuous quarter due to this singular class. I would avoid taking this class is possible. If you must, you absolutely have to do the readings and pay a painstakingly amount of attention to every little detail as literally anything could be on the quiz.
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