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.

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.

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.