POL SCI 20
World Politics
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Required of all students concentrating in Field II. Introduction to problems of world politics. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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This is the worst professor I have ever had. First of all, he is extremely conservative, and his entire class is based around the fact that he is conservative. The first thing he will tell you is that he is a "Republican, which means real American." And if he finds out that you are not conservative, he will give you lower grades because of it. Second of all, he has about 50 slides each class filled with text that he just reads off of during lecture. Thirdly, he lies about the facts in order to make Republican presidents, like Bush and Reagan, look better. Lastly, he is extremely rude to any students who ask him questions or visit him in his office hours. If you have any option at all, do not take this class.
This is the worst professor I have ever had. First of all, he is extremely conservative, and his entire class is based around the fact that he is conservative. The first thing he will tell you is that he is a "Republican, which means real American." And if he finds out that you are not conservative, he will give you lower grades because of it. Second of all, he has about 50 slides each class filled with text that he just reads off of during lecture. Thirdly, he lies about the facts in order to make Republican presidents, like Bush and Reagan, look better. Lastly, he is extremely rude to any students who ask him questions or visit him in his office hours. If you have any option at all, do not take this class.
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Spring 2025 - While this class is manageable in workload, it is clear Professor Johns is the kind of teacher that does not want her students to succeed. The content of the class is interesting and relevant, yet Johns teaches it in the most frustrating way possible. Although her exam questions aren’t inherently difficult, she instructs TAs to grade them with such extreme specificity that anything except for textbook definitions are penalized. This led to the midterm class average being a D, which is absurd for a class with mostly straightforward content. Not only that, but Johns makes basic resources entirely inaccessible. She refuses to posts lecture slides online and doesn’t even provide them to the TAs, leaving both students and TAs totally lost. This class is doable if you keep up with the reading and attend every single lecture, but Johns’ grading and teaching styles make a very interesting class unnecessarily demoralizing.
Spring 2025 - While this class is manageable in workload, it is clear Professor Johns is the kind of teacher that does not want her students to succeed. The content of the class is interesting and relevant, yet Johns teaches it in the most frustrating way possible. Although her exam questions aren’t inherently difficult, she instructs TAs to grade them with such extreme specificity that anything except for textbook definitions are penalized. This led to the midterm class average being a D, which is absurd for a class with mostly straightforward content. Not only that, but Johns makes basic resources entirely inaccessible. She refuses to posts lecture slides online and doesn’t even provide them to the TAs, leaving both students and TAs totally lost. This class is doable if you keep up with the reading and attend every single lecture, but Johns’ grading and teaching styles make a very interesting class unnecessarily demoralizing.
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Spring 2016 - Really, really, really strong accent that takes a long time to get used to. Not a standard Israeli accent, like, a strong one and he also yells in this high voice and sounds like a muppet. But actually not a super complex class, pay attention to slides (not super helpful to go to lecture) and you can get by.
Spring 2016 - Really, really, really strong accent that takes a long time to get used to. Not a standard Israeli accent, like, a strong one and he also yells in this high voice and sounds like a muppet. But actually not a super complex class, pay attention to slides (not super helpful to go to lecture) and you can get by.
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