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Professor Min is so nice and helpful! His lectures are always very structured and clear and his slides are very detailed. I can tell the attendance definitely went down over the quarter because it was easy to understand everything just from reading the slides, but he is a great lecturer who is very funny and witty. I enjoyed his lectures a lot. He is very encouraging to his students and was ready to help whenever possible. The class consists of 20% participation, midterm and final and a group project white paper. Participation was just showing up, the white paper was pretty easy too. I recommend bringing you a draft to the TA before turning it in and taking his advice will definitely secure you a high grade. The exams were pretty hard, the average was an 82% because it was very dense and reading-based. However, if you go to the lecture, you can definitely tell which concepts are more important and likely to be on the test and which are just unnecessary details. The readings were very dense and heavy and that's the only downside of this class. Professor Min is very helpful during his office hours too, he is very approachable and sincere. All in all, if you go to lecture, study the materials (make a quizlet), browse through the readings, you will get a good grade.

First things first, DO NOT LET ANYONE SCAM YOU INTO BUYING A PDF OF THE TEXTBOOK FROM THEM. The textbook's not really necessary for the class, it's really more of a supplement with extra details.

Now onto the class itself, the grading is pretty straightforward, 15% participation (going to section is mandatory, lecture isn't), 20% midterm, 5% 1-page paper proposal, 25% 5 to 6-page paper, 35% final. It's definitely important to do well on the paper (going to office hours is super helpful!!!). The midterm and final do cover a lot of concepts that take a lot of memorization. I found that the hard part was more the amount of content that had to be memorized, not the difficulty of the concepts themselves, they were pretty straightforward. You do get practice midterms/finals in discussion, but keep in mind the actual exams were a bit harder than the practice ones. Professor Min does hold a review session for the final that's pretty helpful in consolidating all the information you should know for the exam.

Professor Min's an awesome lecturer, he's super clear, engaging, funny. Definitely pay attention in lecture, he drops LOTS of hints on what's going to be on the exam, like quite literally he constantly repeats, "KNOW THIS FOR THE EXAM." So even though lecture isn't mandatory, I'd recommend going because he explains stuff super clearly and makes concepts easy to digest. He also uses a lot of modern examples to explain certain concepts. I guess you could say he's "hip with the kids." He also posts the slides on CCLE with certain sections blanked out to motivate you to go to lecture, but if you want to refer them afterwards, just highlight the blanks and copy and paste it and the blocked out words should show up.

Overall, great class, 10/10 would recommend.

I do not exaggerate when I say this man is everything you want in a professor and his class includes everything you want in a class. I could write an essay on all the benefits of this class but I think the ratings speak for themselves. Oh, and I would recommend going to office hours if you want to get to know him better - he encourages it and is very friendly.

Eric Min is an AMAZING professor. He has very well prepared slides and posts them online along with youtube videos of his lecture. He is engaging, entertaining, and funny. His material is really interesting and he is great at explaining. The class is super easy with a quiz every week, 15 questions, 30 mins open book open notes. Everyone gets atleast a B+. I highly recommend this class!!! also Julien is a great TA, and his office hours are pretty fun

Quizzes were straightforward and simple if you watched the lectures. The essay is quite difficult in my opinion since they basically ask a bunch of very young adults how to deal with one of the biggest problems in world politics. They probably grade easier than they could though. Lectures are incredibly engaging and interesting. One of the best classes I've taken at UCLA.

BY FAR ONE OF THE BEST PROFESSORS I'VE HAD AT UCLA! Professor Min was so so prepared every time he came to lecture. He uses slides and explains the material very clearly (so you really don't even have to read the textbook). Covid Edition classwork: weekly multiple-choice reading quizzes (but he covers everything so clearly in lecture so reading really isn't necessary), an analysis paper, and section participation. Pretty easy coursework and homework. ALSO Professor Min is so funny in lecture (he played nicki minaj & elevator music). He was definitely one of the clearest professors I've had. 1000/10 recommend <3

Professor Min is a very engaging lecturer! He is also very humorous and often tried to incorporate jokes relevant to the material into the lectures. He provides the lecture slides before class and has edited them to have blanks for students to fill in as the lecture progresses. The class itself has a fairly light workload with the final grade being based on 8 quizzes (one almost every week), a proposal paper, discussion section participation, and a final paper. The quizzes were all very straight forward and as long as you watched the lectures and followed along with the lecture slides the quizzes were often easy. The information that is presented in the class is also very interesting.

AMAZING class, the content is SO interesting and useful and every single lecture is just so interesting to learn about. The lectures are recorded and participation is not required for lectures so I always watched them later because of my time zone and this made it 100x better. Professor Min is an amazing professor, is always helping, and just genuinely loves the content. The weekly quizzes were easy if you pay attention and take good notes, I got my first A+ in this class. I am not a Poli Sci major but the content is SO interesting I loved every single topic. The analysis paper is a huge part of your grade but it is honestly so easy if you pay attention in discussion and work on it over the weeks. Participation in discussion is a part of your grade and you actually have to contribute so pick a proper timing for your discussion section. There were no midterms or finals for this class this quarter. It was easy and the content was amazing, there is literally no reason why you shouldn't take it as a GE (or major requirement).

Dr. Min is the best professor I had so far at UCLA, he is so generous and lenient (records all classes) and his slides are always so organized and helpful. Do not hesitate to take this class. The topics covered are so interesting, from wars, to race and gender, to terrorism, to trade, and so many interesting and useful topics. Favourite class at UCLA so far and it was also easy!

Professor Min is an amazing teacher and person. He was very understanding of our current circumstances and would continously advise us that we could ask for help if needed. His lectures were super duper clear and engaging, he usually touched on current events that related to the subject material. We only had to write one term paper about how to combat the current nuclear arms crises with North Korea. But other than that we had weekly quizzes in which we could use our notes so they were all super duper easy. Also we are required to buy a world politics textbook but DO NOT BUY IT! His lectures are mere reflections of the reading material so reading the textbook would just be a waste of time. Just use his slides as a way to study as you'll get an easy A.

Professor Min does a great job of introducing world politics to his students! His class and lectures are extremely organize, and he makes sure to clarify confusing concepts. The class structure is completely manageable, as long as you take notes during lectures. There's eight weekly quizzes and no final. There's a pretty big final paper that's due during week nine, but as long as you understand course concepts and talk to your ta about your proposal, the grading is fair.