While the material and readings themselves are not the most difficult to understand, his expectations for your understanding are difficult to meet. His slides consist of block quotes from the readings, and rather than expanding on why the quote is important, he reads it in its entirety and tests you on your understanding of the quote (without noting the relevance of it to the theories you're trying to learn). For commuters, he often ends lecture early, the earliest being by 45 minutes, but he still requires you show up to answer iClicker questions and mark your attendance. His attendance requirements would not be outrageous if not for the uselessness of his lectures and the amount of time it takes to finish them. If you want to do well in this class, I cannot stress enough that the TAs will be a major crutch. Their discussions are 100% more helpful than his lectures, and, unlike him, they actually want you to succeed in the class. Best of luck if you take this professor.

Quite honestly a horrible Professor! I hope he stops teaching this class. He literally told a student to stop asking questions five minutes before class ended even though he had finished lecture, and he changed the syllabus half-way to punish people for missing one singular class. His lectures are snoozers, and I stopped taking notes halfway through his class because he goes so fast, and a complete waste of time. It would be better to just review the readings online and cross reference to see what’s important. I recommend studying the readings each week to know and create difficultly worded exams for yourself to study. This Professor will never be helpful to you. Know that TA Joelle will carry you, but you need to study extra to get an A in this class.