PUB AFF 70
Information, Evidence, and Persuasion
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Examination of sources and varieties of knowledge produced in social sciences. Evaluation of types of evidence, arguments, and persuasion on social problems and public issues. Examination of public life of evidence and arguments by different actors in social policy-making, persuasion, and propaganda process. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2022 - The class material was not connected to the assignments at all. While the lectures themselves were interesting and the professor did an okay job with that, the assignments were very poorly designed and arbitrarily graded. All of the assignments were graded by the TA (as per usual for most lower divs), but the TAs, at least for my section, did not provide any sort of rubric or information on how grading would occur. Rather, they just assigned grades without any explanation. I heard from several other students in the course that they spoke with their TAs at length about assignments, trying to perfect them before submitting only to receive a B with no explanation. Something similar happened to me as well in a few of these assignments. The class just seemed to be badly organized in my opinion and the professor was not really open or available to making the class more accessible. Would not recommend the course to anyone with this professor, or especially the TA Niamh.
Spring 2022 - The class material was not connected to the assignments at all. While the lectures themselves were interesting and the professor did an okay job with that, the assignments were very poorly designed and arbitrarily graded. All of the assignments were graded by the TA (as per usual for most lower divs), but the TAs, at least for my section, did not provide any sort of rubric or information on how grading would occur. Rather, they just assigned grades without any explanation. I heard from several other students in the course that they spoke with their TAs at length about assignments, trying to perfect them before submitting only to receive a B with no explanation. Something similar happened to me as well in a few of these assignments. The class just seemed to be badly organized in my opinion and the professor was not really open or available to making the class more accessible. Would not recommend the course to anyone with this professor, or especially the TA Niamh.
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2025 - THIS GUY IS EVIL. Let me preface I did well but waking up for pop quizzes at 9:30 am to go to a lecture that has absolutely NOTHING to do with your assignments feels terrible. You cannot leave or bring a phone in and if u leave he calls attendance and will be a bitch. There is no clarity to the assignment and it feels like you are airballing with the grades. TA’s grade on feeling and I literally emailed to get almost a 10% grade increase. This class feels like a whim and will stress u out unnecessarily. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!
Spring 2025 - THIS GUY IS EVIL. Let me preface I did well but waking up for pop quizzes at 9:30 am to go to a lecture that has absolutely NOTHING to do with your assignments feels terrible. You cannot leave or bring a phone in and if u leave he calls attendance and will be a bitch. There is no clarity to the assignment and it feels like you are airballing with the grades. TA’s grade on feeling and I literally emailed to get almost a 10% grade increase. This class feels like a whim and will stress u out unnecessarily. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!
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