Your grade consists of 9 weekly papers minimum 400 words to a maximum of 600 words. 8 weekly conversations, which were just responding to your section classmates papers (yes, you have to upload your weekly paper onto a discussion forum for the people in your section which was a bit awkward having so many people critique my work). You just had to respond to 3 other classmates with a minimum of 200 words for each response. The final component of your grade is a final paper which was originally supposed to be a minimum of 4,000 words but they shortened it to 2,000 words towards the end of the quarter which was really nice of them to do. Lectures are pre-recorded and readings are easy, however not necessary. I did not watch any of the lectures or do any of the readings and still pulled off an A by simply reading my classmate's essays on the discussion forum and piecing together my essay based on their's LOL. My TA was Doeun Kim who was really nice and graded easy for the weekly papers. She did end up grading strictly on the final paper and a lot of students complained about this so she made Wilkinson add +2 points to all of our final grades which was nice. Overall, this class is super easy I wrote all the papers an hour before they were due and the final paper had a bunch of super broad prompts that you could choose which also was not hard nor took very long.

Professor Wilkinson is a professor that clearly has a lot of experience and knowledge. He is really passionate about world politics and international relations. His passion, coupled with his enthusiasm and a great sense of humour, make his lectures interesting. Moreover, Professor Wilkinson deeply cares about getting to know his students; in fact, he encourages everyone to come after the lecture to introduce themselves, where he would then offer some useful career advice. In addition, Professor Wilkinson is also a fantastic speaker, who displays incredible level of eloquence and confidence, making the subject easy to grasp as everything is clear and concise. The structure of the class is the following: ten weekly papers that are worth 40% and a final exam that is worth 60%.

This is probably the easiest class I have taken in existence. I didn't show up to a single discussion section, watched only portions of the lectures, and still managed to end with an A+. If you want to learn something, this class offers that, but it's too easy to get away with doing the bare minimum, which can be good depending on your perspective and workload.

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This class was certainly easy though it entirely depended on the TA you got. The professor just posted lectures and was not really heard from for the rest of the course. The lectures were interesting though but make sure to watch them on 2x speed as the professor is really slow. There is a 500 word essay every week and a 250 word response to other essays every week so work can get tedious though it is very easy. Overall, definitely a good GE or lower-division poli sci class to take if you want an easy A.

This class is a pretty interesting and easy GE. However, the workload can be a lot/boring if you don't like writing papers. Your grade depends on the weekly papers and the final. All of the TA's grade differently.

This class is completely pointless. There was one 400 word paper due each week in discussion and then a 2000 word final paper where we could basically decide whatever we wanted to write about. I wrote about something pretty much completely outside the scope of what Wilkinson talked about in lecture (at least when I went) and ended with an A, which I expected.

I did not go to lecture after Week 3 because they were evening lectures and were basically just reviews of the reading. He reads off the slides and doesn't really give any more information that would be helpful with writing the papers. I got by without doing all the reading as well because reviewing the slides when he posted them online gave me enough to write the papers.

Get Perry as TA. He is very informative and helpful and grades pretty leniently. He also understands that this class is a joke and conveyed that to us many times throughout the quarter.

Bottom line: take this class if you don't care about world politics. Take it with another professor if you actually care about learning something.

The lectures can be dull but the class is very straightforward - four papers and a take home essay final. You must rely on your TA guidance/questions. I actually learned a lot from writing the papers - recommend for an intro class.

I took this class asynch so the TA basically had free reign. If you get Park, she's super nitpicky and strict on papers but you know what you need to do to get an A. Her syllabus is very thorough. But she's definitely the toughest compared to some of the others available.

All lectures were pre-recorded for this class so I never interacted with the professor. Both books could be found online, definitely don't buy them, but you will be using them for your weekly papers and especially your final paper. I found that Prof. Wilkinson basically summarizes most of it in his lecture, especially with the Tragedy book. The lectures weren't bad at all. I usually watched them on 2x speed, and some were only 30ish minutes.

I had Doeun Kim for my TA. In the beginning, she does say that she doesn't give full points. But she does justify every tenth of a point that she takes off. She is undoubtedly strict in her grading but I think she was rightfully so. In Week 4, she released a survey to see how to improve the discussion section which in my opinion, was really thoughtful. Her final paper grading was really harsh, but again, she marked where points were taken off. For example with mine, I was explaining a policy and then explaining the liberalist and realist view rather than having realism and liberalism as the main focus and using the policy to bolster the argument. After the final paper feedback was released, a bunch of students emailed the prof and Doeun about her grading. In the end, she added 2 extra points (about 2%) to everyone's grades and accepted rounding.