I really enjoyed the content of this class, in terms of take aways, but the structure was really poorly done. Professor Peters has great energy and has put together awesome, thorough presentations, but her style goes too fast (esp for a non-computer class) to truly grasp material. The readings were too dense and didn't really align always with the course. The midterm exam was extremely unfair in terms of time frame allotted (9 questions, must answer 8, in 75m) but she fixed that through offering extra credit and a much better assessment plan for the final. Overall, glad I took the course (was a requirement for major) because of what I learned overall, but it was a very stressful experience.

This class was fine - not great but not absolutely terrible. The workload is fine (other than the readings which use Perusall and are annoying), but the main problem comes from the lectures which are boring and honestly not always useful. The professor tends to go on tangents that may be relevant to the topics but either make things harder than they need to be or are too long and unnecessary for learning. The content of the course is fine but not completely cohesive, and the class is called "markets and resources" but focuses on migration, money, trade, and FDI, which halfway makes sense but I feel like it should focus on other things too, or do so in a different way. The class is not as bad as other reviews say though, so if you have to take it, don't worry too much! You'll be fine, plus the TAs are decent!

I took Global Studies 100A (now called 102) with Prof Peters online due to COVID-19. Despite the abrupt switch to virtual learning, Prof Peters did a great job at making the lectures engaging and relevant to our experiences with the ongoing pandemic. The majority of our grade came from 4 papers on broad topics covered in class. The prompts asked you to present a solution/opinion on relevant topics (trade war with China, immigration policies, etc). Grading for the papers by the TA's was very fair. Overall I really enjoyed this class and Prof Peters! Take this class!!

I definitely recommend this class. No textbook required, as Professor Peters provides all of them for free. Professor Peters is very kind, helpful, and empathetic towards her students. Her class is flexible, especially for the due dates of the weekly reading assignments (Quizzes on CCLE). Her recorded lectures aren't very long and are a great supplement that summarizes the main points of the weekly readings. However, attending the live lectures featuring guest speakers is mandatory for attendance grade, which IIRC there was only 6 throughout the quarter. If you cannot make it to the live lectures, you can submit a one-page summary of what you learned and might get some credit. To be clear, I am not one of those "laid back" students, so I did do all of the readings and felt that the exam questions were fair. To be more precise, I found the Final Exam to be a bit more complicated than the Midterm as the essay questions required deeper thinking. The essay exam requires you to write 4 essays in total, but each essay has a one-page limit and done in single-space, with a reference page at the end. The weekly reading assignments (Quizzes) was not too hard, but it would be if you didn't do the readings at all. Typically, the quizzes have 3-5 questions, and you have an hour to submit. Be sure to do some of the readings before the discussion sections, as you are expected to answer questions as a group. Your TA will be the ones who grades everything. Thank you, Professor Peters, for the great quarter!!

The class was pretty straightforward but Peters' political bias shows itself during lectures and I found the subject material to be quite boring until the last couple of weeks of class. We were graded on attending guest lectures via Zoom, participating in the discussion sections, weekly quizzes, and two midterm/final take-home papers. The papers were graded fairly. It is virtually impossible to get less than an A in this class.

This class depends a lot on how comfortable you are with econ and econ policy. This class is the study of migration but mostly this class goes into how econ motivates people and states to accept or not accept immigrants.
You have to attend guest lectures which are boring.

There is a fair amount of reading which is pretty dense and some of the hardest I have read for a Poli-Sci.

During section, the TA cleared up a lot of the complex reading which made the class easier.

Class is graded on a curve and via the GroupMe, it seemed that most people Got B+ A- on the midterm and final.

Didn't go to the lectures after week 5, got an A in this class. The good thing about this class (but could be bad as well) is that it contains a quiz regarding that week's readings in every week's discussion. This forces me to study all the content for the week before the discussion so I don't need to go through all the things right before the final. The textbook and powerpoint contain all the knowledge you need for finals, and the professor was just reading through the slides in class so no need to go to class if you don't want to. Your grades for paper totally depend on the TA so it is good to talk to them before start your paper to get their specific expectations.

While Global Studies 100A did not cover concepts I initially thought I would be interested in, it definitely became the class I’ve learned most from so far. Prof. Peters is an excellent lecturer who covers an extreme amount of material at very quick speeds. Unfortunately, the class is not bruincast so lecture attendance is pretty important. She goes over the content covered in all the readings in her lectures, and since there are weekly reading quizzes in section, it is definitely important to have a good understanding of the Frieden/Lake/Broz readings. I would say that her grading system is fairly difficult, which she establishes at the beginning of the quarter. However, the class is graded on a curve, which balances out her relatively strict policies.

I do not know why Professor Peters gets such bad reviews. She is honestly such a funny lecturer and really knows her stuff. She really wants to help her students and you learn so much from this class. At first, when I saw these reviews, I was scared to take this class. But, I honestly loved the class so much and Professor Peters is now one of my favorite professors I have ever had at UCLA.

I think Peter’s really cares about her students, and I often found her engaging and funny. She is incredibly educated on the issue of migration and it shows through in her lectures. The content is genuinley engaging and I’m happy I took the class. That being said, the amount of content we were expected to know and the amount of assigned readings was quite a lot. You absolutely will fall behind if you’re not sticking to the reading schedule and attending every lecture and studying (which is what happened to me- I had to evacuate cause of the palisades fires and fell behind the start of class). That being said, this class isn’t impossible and Peter’s nor her TA’s want to see you fail. It will just take a lot of discipline and interest in the class topic in order to succeed because you will be consuming so much information weekly and you have to be prepared for that.

My one issue I had with the class, and where I saw a lot of people struggle was the lack of guidance in how to study for our quizzes. In this class our grades were based off a series of papers, quizzes, and one final collaborative paper. Everyone including myself did excellent on the papers because we had such thorough guidance and expectations on what was expected of us (and that’s what ultimately saved my grade). As for the quizzes, most people struggled because nobody knew how to study for them. One quiz would be test based, another would be lecture based, and another would be based on very specific details of one reading. There was no way to strategically study because the focus of each quiz was wildly different, and with the range of content we were expected to consume over several weeks it was impossible to memorize and prepare to do well on a quiz that felt like a series of trivia questions.

In all, if you have to, or want to take this class do so when you feel like you can take on the challenge and/or don’t need to take a very heavy course load for the quarter. It’s a genuinely intriguing class and I enjoyed Peter’s as a person, there was just so much content to engage with and memorize in order to do well with the class for better and worse. I would suggest taking this class if you’re ready.