POL SCI 149
Special Topics in American Government and Politics
Description: Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: course 40, two courses in Field III. Designed for juniors/seniors. Intensive examination of one or more special problems appropriate to American politics. Sections offered on regular basis, with topics announced in preceding term. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Summer 2021 - This class was an easy A. Furthermore, for political science undergraduates who are solely relying on a poli sci degree to get them a solid career, I would highly recommend you guys take this class with Professor Leslie. Every lecture you will hear from successful poli sci majors who have great careers and they are willing to connect with you even after the class is over. BTW: The professor mentioned halfway into the course that he had given quite a bit of extra credit to students who had 1: their camera on for lectures and 2: left questions in the chat during every speaker's presentations for every class lecture. If you do this, you will likely end with an A+ in the class. If you do not do both of these things, you will end with an A in the class. As long as you guys do every assignment, which are super easy, and put at least some effort into them, you will 100% end with at least a solid A in the class. I want to give a shoutout to the other review here from summer of 2020 because if it was not for them, I likely would not have taken this class.
Summer 2021 - This class was an easy A. Furthermore, for political science undergraduates who are solely relying on a poli sci degree to get them a solid career, I would highly recommend you guys take this class with Professor Leslie. Every lecture you will hear from successful poli sci majors who have great careers and they are willing to connect with you even after the class is over. BTW: The professor mentioned halfway into the course that he had given quite a bit of extra credit to students who had 1: their camera on for lectures and 2: left questions in the chat during every speaker's presentations for every class lecture. If you do this, you will likely end with an A+ in the class. If you do not do both of these things, you will end with an A in the class. As long as you guys do every assignment, which are super easy, and put at least some effort into them, you will 100% end with at least a solid A in the class. I want to give a shoutout to the other review here from summer of 2020 because if it was not for them, I likely would not have taken this class.
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Summer 2018 - This is for PS149: Trump's Predictable Win Deciphering 2018 Took this class over the summer. Overall it is not a hard class. Midterm 40%, Final 50%, Participation 10%. For the midterm and final, you have to submit questions potential questions on CCLE so that you're building a class study guide. Also submitting questions goes into your participation grade. If he picks your question for either the midterm or final, he gives you a bonus point. Most of the time he would pick questions straight from there-so if you just study off of that you're fine. For readings, there is no textbook. The first week there were long scholarly articles, and after that it was online articles from NYT, WSJ, and FiveThirtyEight. Truthfully you don't need to do these readings because if someone writes a question about the reading, you can just go and find it. He reads straight from the powerpoint slides. But you had to go to lecture because he had us get into groups and write our thoughts down and submit them for participation points. Shrode's lectures themselves were not that engaging. Midterm was super easy (all of the questions were from the online study guide) so everyone did well (not surprising it's summer). So he decided to make the final more "involved" (as he put it), and wrote questions that took the bad and vague questions from the study guide and put them onto the final. He grades hard. He admits that, so he puts the grades onto a really weird and confusing curve. Not a hard class, and required minimal effort.
Summer 2018 - This is for PS149: Trump's Predictable Win Deciphering 2018 Took this class over the summer. Overall it is not a hard class. Midterm 40%, Final 50%, Participation 10%. For the midterm and final, you have to submit questions potential questions on CCLE so that you're building a class study guide. Also submitting questions goes into your participation grade. If he picks your question for either the midterm or final, he gives you a bonus point. Most of the time he would pick questions straight from there-so if you just study off of that you're fine. For readings, there is no textbook. The first week there were long scholarly articles, and after that it was online articles from NYT, WSJ, and FiveThirtyEight. Truthfully you don't need to do these readings because if someone writes a question about the reading, you can just go and find it. He reads straight from the powerpoint slides. But you had to go to lecture because he had us get into groups and write our thoughts down and submit them for participation points. Shrode's lectures themselves were not that engaging. Midterm was super easy (all of the questions were from the online study guide) so everyone did well (not surprising it's summer). So he decided to make the final more "involved" (as he put it), and wrote questions that took the bad and vague questions from the study guide and put them onto the final. He grades hard. He admits that, so he puts the grades onto a really weird and confusing curve. Not a hard class, and required minimal effort.
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