POL SCI 135
International Relations of China
Description: Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: course 20. Designed for juniors/seniors. Relations of China with its neighbors and other powers, with emphasis on contemporary interests and policies of China vis-à-vis U.S. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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I love Baum But I don't understand how he/TA grade us... I got a A in the midterm but I turned out having a B in my final grade Why????? I don't think I did that bad in the final exam.... The readings are really not much, and the materials are interesting... The only thing I concerned is how do they grade???? Is it impossible for anyone to get an A in this class?
I love Baum But I don't understand how he/TA grade us... I got a A in the midterm but I turned out having a B in my final grade Why????? I don't think I did that bad in the final exam.... The readings are really not much, and the materials are interesting... The only thing I concerned is how do they grade???? Is it impossible for anyone to get an A in this class?
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Summer 2020 - I don't know where the hell all of these good reviews came from. This guy is a grade A scumbag. I am taking his class during the COVID disaster Summer of 2020. Everything is virtual. From the get go, in the class people started dropping like flies because of his demeanor. He doesn't have actual classes but instead has a monotone lecture over power point slides. A couple of students asked if he could change the recordings because they had trouble hearing it and his response was essentially, it sounds fine and get over it. That was the first red flag. The second was that a couple people asked him to have office hours and he refused and just said to e-mail him. Despite the fact that according to the UCLA Summer Sessions website, professors are required to have at least one hour of office hours a week. Plus with everyone at home during the pandemic, WTF else are you doing anyway that you can't take the time to talk to your students? He took his sweet time grading the midterms. According to the class group chat the average was a 23 out of 30. He is a stupidly harsh grader. He limited the ID responses to a page each and I think his expectations were way out of line for responses (I say this as a senior with a 4.0). All in all this guy 100% does not give a rats ass about students and is a general POS.
Summer 2020 - I don't know where the hell all of these good reviews came from. This guy is a grade A scumbag. I am taking his class during the COVID disaster Summer of 2020. Everything is virtual. From the get go, in the class people started dropping like flies because of his demeanor. He doesn't have actual classes but instead has a monotone lecture over power point slides. A couple of students asked if he could change the recordings because they had trouble hearing it and his response was essentially, it sounds fine and get over it. That was the first red flag. The second was that a couple people asked him to have office hours and he refused and just said to e-mail him. Despite the fact that according to the UCLA Summer Sessions website, professors are required to have at least one hour of office hours a week. Plus with everyone at home during the pandemic, WTF else are you doing anyway that you can't take the time to talk to your students? He took his sweet time grading the midterms. According to the class group chat the average was a 23 out of 30. He is a stupidly harsh grader. He limited the ID responses to a page each and I think his expectations were way out of line for responses (I say this as a senior with a 4.0). All in all this guy 100% does not give a rats ass about students and is a general POS.
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Winter 2016 - This class consisted of a weekly 1 page paper based on one of the 9 "future scenarios" that China might experience. Discussion is pretty much just sharing what you wrote, and lecture is just an explanation of each scenario and is not mandatory in the slightest. His lectures are dry information dumps, but you can sense the passion in his old voice. Easy upper-division A.
Winter 2016 - This class consisted of a weekly 1 page paper based on one of the 9 "future scenarios" that China might experience. Discussion is pretty much just sharing what you wrote, and lecture is just an explanation of each scenario and is not mandatory in the slightest. His lectures are dry information dumps, but you can sense the passion in his old voice. Easy upper-division A.
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