Political Science

This course is the most hardcore but also the most to-the-core if you wanted to learn about American Politics and the foundational documents. As an international student I have never approached the documents before, and at first it does get a bit overwhelming, but as time goes on it has become my most rewarding courses at Middlebury. Prof. Dry is a really wise and knowledgeable professor. Despite the difficulty I would recommend anyone who has a strong interest in American Politics to take the course!

This course is the most hardcore but also the most to-the-core if you wanted to learn about American Politics and the foundational documents. As an international student I have never approached the documents before, and at first it does get a bit overwhelming, but as time goes on it has become my most rewarding courses at Middlebury. …Read more

This course material was interesting, but there was a high volume of reading for this course, which was quite dense, so it was actually difficult to get into all of it. Also, the prof did not do a great job of creating an atmosphere for class discussion at the beginning, so it was hard to dig into these difficult topics. The papers were not the longest(5-7 pages), but since it is apolitical philosophyy class, you had to be very explicit about everything you wrote, so it was time-consuming, and you had to write 6 of them over the semester. No exams.

This course material was interesting, but there was a high volume of reading for this course, which was quite dense, so it was actually difficult to get into all of it. Also, the prof did not do a great job of creating an atmosphere for class discussion at the beginning, so it was hard to dig into these difficult topics. The papers w …Read more

Class was relatively easy- and so were the papers. Exams material was what you expected, no real surprises, but the grading was tough. The papers were pretty short. If you keep up and do the reading, you’ll do perfectly fine.