THE PROFESSOR:
Professor Johns is honestly the worst professor I could have imagined. Every sentence ends with "mkay" or "right?" and she sounds like some average joe UCLA pulled from the street to hold a lecture. She cancels lectures on a whim, and then material we missed shows up on the midterm and final, even though she emailed us saying not to worry about it. Shady, much? Her lectures are incredibly dry and I considered switching my major because of her horrendous class.

THE CLASS:
Please, do yourself a favor and read the textbook. Professor John's lecture slides have anywhere from 3-5 words on them, and that's it. The lectures are sloppy and mixed up. I learned my lesson by not reading the book initially in the class. There are 5 case studies about recent international issues. They range from about 10-20 pages per week, and you just read them. The quizzes on them are given in section, with usually 3 questions for 10 points. The quizzes are relatively easy, but require close reading and note taking. Definitely not something you can do the night before and expect to get 10/10 on the quiz.

MIDTERM:
The midterm absolutely wrecked me. I studied John's slides religiously, and I ended up getting a 68/100. With the curve, I got a 78.7/100. I sent in a regrade memo because of the ridiculous grading, and they only gave me one extra measly point. Professor Johns told us to mainly focus on the lecture slides, which is an outright lie because the book is a much better resource. The test itself is five pages, 10 questions, all short answer. The more you write, the better. I didn't use one term and automatically got 0/3 for that question.

FINAL:
Again, horribly long test. The final was 10 pages with 18 questions. In order to get at least 50% on the final, you need to read the book. I read the entire book the week before the final and I knew almost all of the questions.

OVERALL:
Take this class if you want to hate your life, dread going to every lecture, and possibly even want to never take another politics class again.

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If you want an A in the class, you're going to have to work hard. She's a fairly good teacher though. This class definitely does not have a traditional poli sci curve distribution.

Professor Johns is very passionate about politics, as can be seen in her lectures. There is a weekly paper (2-3 pages, double spaced), which you eventually get the hang of and is completely graded by your TA. So if you have a generous TA, you will get decent grades on the papers even if you write them the night before. I attended every lecture and took notes, but I did not really read the book. There is one midterm and final, and they are curved. The midterm was pretty easy- all I did was look at my notes, know all the basic definitions, and look at her past midterm. For the final, I did not study as much since I also had a chem final that day. I didn't think I would do that great because I honestly had studied very little and it was right after my chem final so I had felt pretty burnt out. I remember it being pretty difficult and I still don't know the exact grade I got on it but I somehow ended up with an A- in the class so I am guessing the curve was generous. Overall, if you are looking for a class where the workload isn't too much but you still want to learn something, then this is your class.

This class was great up until the final.
Apparently the final was curved 20 points because of how hard it was.
The midterm was doable, the weekly papers were doable, but the final destroyed my sense of self and lowered my overall grade.
The final was all essay-based and and a lot of information on it didn't seem to have been taught in class... or in the book? Both of which I attended and read religiously.
Other than that, Johns was a fantastic lecturer and I learned a lot.

she & this class is decent. should not be hard if you took a lot of gov classes in high school .. pretty easy and conceptual.. just read over your notes and attend lecture then you will get a good/decent grade on the tests // there are 7-8 policy briefs due but i find they helpful of boosting your grade.. but TA choice is important!

Liked her a lot. We had one 2-3 page policy brief due every week and one midterm and one final. Midterm was long, just know vocabulary and real life examples of them. Final was shorter, again mostly vocab... I finished in less than an hour.

I didn't put a lot of effort in this class, which is probably why I got a B+ but if you study more than 2 hours for her midterm and final you should be good!

Competent professor. Clear and organized lectures.

Frankly, this is an easy class -- either go to lecture and take notes or read the textbook, and you'll do fine.

Weekly policy briefs are a bit of a bore, but they're a bit junk of your grade and serve as nice padding.

Curiously, there was a massive curve on the final. For the midterm, go to the test bank. She preserves the structure and types of questions from past exams.

Professor Johns is a pretty great professor. Her lectures are well structured (pretty much based off the textbook), move quickly, and convey the main ideas efficiently.

To do well on the exams, attend lecture and take notes (she hits all the main points concisely for the exams), know the vocab and be able to regurgitate it, and know real world examples for the vocab/main ideas.

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