Natalie Chwalisz

The course material is very interesting, but Professor Chwalisz's teaching style was poor. You cover topics like drug trade, terrorism-drug nexus, human smuggling, human trafficking, and more. There are lots of readings, but you don't really need to do all of them - just enough to participate in class. Some of the material seems outdated. Over the semester, we had to write three 2-page memos, one resource write-up, lead an hour-long class discussion, and an 8-page final paper with an associated policy brief and presentation of findings.

The course material is very interesting, but Professor Chwalisz's teaching style was poor. You cover topics like drug trade, terrorism-drug nexus, human smuggling, human trafficking, and more. There are lots of readings, but you don't really need to do all of them - just enough to participate in class. Some of the material seems outd …Read more

At first, I didn't like the class because the professor was kind of disorganized, but after giving it some time it was very interesting and helpful. majority of your grade is dependent on your case study presentation, which can be a plus or minus, but she isn't too harsh of a grader.

This is one of the bigger lectures/survey classes at Midd, which is to be expected as an intro, 100 level course. Neither the workload nor difficulty is overwhelming, but while I am interested in Political Science the lectures got boring at times. Lectures move quickly, but not too quickly. Sometimes it feels like the professor could have reviewed the slides more thoroughly before class to make lectures more engaging and to answer questions more effectively, rather than turning questions back on students. I found the discussion section to be more fun as she leaves many sessions open for us to discuss topics of interest. Overall, if this class were a stock – rather than a buy or sell – I would call it a hold.

This is one of the bigger lectures/survey classes at Midd, which is to be expected as an intro, 100 level course. Neither the workload nor difficulty is overwhelming, but while I am interested in Political Science the lectures got boring at times. Lectures move quickly, but not too quickly. Sometimes it feels like the professor coul …Read more