I cannot believe UCLA has someone like this teaching their students. First of all, he is very awkward. I have caught him at least twice talking and laughing to himself. Second, he is very rude to students or at lest to those he thinks are not conservative ( meaning not a white republican). Third, I think he grades unfairly. He says, he has a curve in his class, but I think he knows who he wants to give the "A" to and whom not to give it to. So unless you can show this guy any conservative characteristics, avoid him at all costs. There are so many good poli sci professors here at UCLA. Take any of the other ones instead of this one.

Extremely boring to listen to in lecture. His slides are all posted online and he basically reads off of them word for word. Nobody goes to class because it's basically worthless. First paper is 50% of the grade (15-20 pages) on the Cold War and then there is a 50% final. Not much else to say--it's that boring.

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The class was called "Foreign Relations After 9/11" - even his syllabus claimed that the class looks at "American foreign relations with several regions of the world since the 9/11 attacks", but we did absolutely no such thing. The majority of the class was spent on past wars (WWII, Cold War), only one lecture was spent on al Quaeda and the Taliban, and we ended the course with a discussion of Russia/Iran/Chinese relations and a historical look on Korea (including the Korean War). My point: he did NOT stick to what the class was supposed to be about.

As far as lecture goes, overall it was boring and dry, and if you really paid attention, you'd find that he talks all over the place and that it's kind of difficult to keep up even with a laptop. His only response to all questions in office hours was to "go do the reading". I will give him one thing, he does know history and foreign relations in other regions of the world...just nothing much on what this class was supposed to be about.