Amit Prakash

I found the lectures to be quite boring, even though the professors both seem passionate about the material. The amount of assigned reading is quite tough to handle if you have other reading-heavy courses, and if you fall behind it becomes nearly impossible to catch up. Keeping up with the readings is crucial, as the exams and papers are centered around the different authors and ask you to compare/analyze. The final project was very straightforward and the grading is friendly.

I found the lectures to be quite boring, even though the professors both seem passionate about the material. The amount of assigned reading is quite tough to handle if you have other reading-heavy courses, and if you fall behind it becomes nearly impossible to catch up. Keeping up with the readings is crucial, as the exams and papers …Read more

Amit was a great instructor and if you are up for a decent amount of reading this course it worthwhile. I intended to major in IGS and this cemented my decision to do so. At times the lectures were boring, but the concepts were never difficult.

The course aims to briefly cover basically everything in the discipline of IGST, so the materials are very densely organized and the amount of readings exceed 100 pages at a few weeks; however, the readings could be speed-ran if you have prior knowledge in the week's topic (but it would be difficult to avoid them because papers and exams are centered around readings), and they are all very valuable resources that truly covers some core authors and their main points in the discipline. Professor Prakash and Professor Ramaswamy are both very efficient in teaching, although their style of giving lectures are different (the former tends to mix discussions inside lectures); the grading is pretty fair and the Professors are generous in granting extensions.

The course aims to briefly cover basically everything in the discipline of IGST, so the materials are very densely organized and the amount of readings exceed 100 pages at a few weeks; however, the readings could be speed-ran if you have prior knowledge in the week's topic (but it would be difficult to avoid them because papers and e …Read more