(Remote Review) This class felt relevant and had a light workload. Professor Manville was approachable and made this class interesting. There were no tests, only a series of writing assignments that worked up to a big paper at the end. The writing assignments were straightforward, and TA's guided them and were usually helpful. Since there were no tests, lectures and readings felt optional, but I still found them interesting regardless.

Professor Manville's class was really refreshing and relevant. The transition to remote learning was really good with a mix of pre-recorded lectures and some documentaries that we watched. The whole class is about learning how to effectively convince someone of your beliefs and really challenged me on my own. He really analyzes how antagonizing politics has become and teaches us how to avoid that in our own arguments. Everything is graded by your TA and mine, Amy Z. is super nice and awesome. Our grade is mostly made up of writing assignments and none of them are too hard. We wrote two op-eds on any topic we wanted to, each one arguing the opposite side from each other, and it was honestly really interesting. There are no textbooks to buy either. He was also really lenient about the final exam with everything occurring in the country. I wish that I would have been able to take this class in person and feel like it was definitely worth it.