Professor
Jonathan Homola
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2025 - There was A LOT of content in this class. Everything within the textbooks, lectures, and additional readings was fair game on the midterm. The average was okay on the midterm but he gave a very demeaning speech about how he was disappointed with the midterm grades (which was in person and closed notes). The grade distribution was 20% attendance and participation, 20% country assignments (these were 4 one page assignments about a country of your choosing and were pretty easy and had averages in the 90-100%), 20% midterm, and 30% final. After the midterm, he took a poll and the class decided to have the final be online and open note. The final was super long for the time period given, but it was a lot better when open note as long as you did a good job of preparing the material. Overall, Homola is a very nice person, and a great professor who is very knowledgable, just the sheer amount of content made this course difficult.
Spring 2025 - There was A LOT of content in this class. Everything within the textbooks, lectures, and additional readings was fair game on the midterm. The average was okay on the midterm but he gave a very demeaning speech about how he was disappointed with the midterm grades (which was in person and closed notes). The grade distribution was 20% attendance and participation, 20% country assignments (these were 4 one page assignments about a country of your choosing and were pretty easy and had averages in the 90-100%), 20% midterm, and 30% final. After the midterm, he took a poll and the class decided to have the final be online and open note. The final was super long for the time period given, but it was a lot better when open note as long as you did a good job of preparing the material. Overall, Homola is a very nice person, and a great professor who is very knowledgable, just the sheer amount of content made this course difficult.
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2024 - This is a really fun and easy class if you are interested in European Politics. Even tho I am not the most interested in some of the topics that were covered in this class I still felt like I learned a lot and was never really stressed about the class. The exams were online and open note with a fair amount of time to answer all the questions. The TAs were really nice and helpful like the professor. Some of the voting systems you may already have heard of just from interest in politics like I did but the class overall should be an easy A. There is one textbook but you can find it online pretty easily and there isn’t much reading. The reading is gone over in class and the professor encourages participation and asking questions. It is a class I would definitely recommend. Also he gave extra credit on the final exam so I think I got like over 100% as a grade in this class. Professor Homola’s classes I expect to become as hard to get as Bransetter’s in the near future so take them while you can.
Fall 2024 - This is a really fun and easy class if you are interested in European Politics. Even tho I am not the most interested in some of the topics that were covered in this class I still felt like I learned a lot and was never really stressed about the class. The exams were online and open note with a fair amount of time to answer all the questions. The TAs were really nice and helpful like the professor. Some of the voting systems you may already have heard of just from interest in politics like I did but the class overall should be an easy A. There is one textbook but you can find it online pretty easily and there isn’t much reading. The reading is gone over in class and the professor encourages participation and asking questions. It is a class I would definitely recommend. Also he gave extra credit on the final exam so I think I got like over 100% as a grade in this class. Professor Homola’s classes I expect to become as hard to get as Bransetter’s in the near future so take them while you can.
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