International & Global Studies

I found this class to be pretty challenging. Expect 30-60 pages of reading a night, along with one super short essay each week. Midterm and final are open-note and take-home, while the other major project is reading a book and discussing it in a group roundtable. Poppe is incredibly knowledgable and passionate, but he does have a tendency to hide his essay prompts in lengthy intros and descriptions that are longer than the paper you are submitting. I enjoyed the class and absolutely adored several of the readings, but the book roundtable especially near gave me an aneurysm. Lectures are almost entirely discussion-based and focused on the readings, which makes taking notes difficult.

I found this class to be pretty challenging. Expect 30-60 pages of reading a night, along with one super short essay each week. Midterm and final are open-note and take-home, while the other major project is reading a book and discussing it in a group roundtable. Poppe is incredibly knowledgable and passionate, but he does have a ten …Read more

The professor himself is enthusiastic to teach and is a wonderful individual. However, his pedagogy made the course content difficult to understand. I felt like I was learning only from the readings and gained very little to nothing from class lectures given the nature that most of them were class discussions with classmates, and the professor failed to provide substantial takeaways for the material.

The professor himself is enthusiastic to teach and is a wonderful individual. However, his pedagogy made the course content difficult to understand. I felt like I was learning only from the readings and gained very little to nothing from class lectures given the nature that most of them were class discussions with classmates, and the …Read more

This course is pretty theory-heavy and throws readings at you at a torrid pace. Exams questions tend to zone in on one or two of these readings at a time so understanding them is crucial. Kemi is a stellar and engaging lecturer who frames IR through some pretty intriguing topics while Amit's lectures are a little more traditional and tend to be more complicated. Both professors are fair graders and give good feedback and this course is valuable, especially if you don't have a strong background in IR or polisci.

This course is pretty theory-heavy and throws readings at you at a torrid pace. Exams questions tend to zone in on one or two of these readings at a time so understanding them is crucial. Kemi is a stellar and engaging lecturer who frames IR through some pretty intriguing topics while Amit's lectures are a little more traditional and …Read more