Professor
Jonathan Homola
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2026 - This was my first political science class here at UCLA so I was a bit nervous, but I truly enjoyed Professor Homola's class. Your grade is based on 20% attendance and participation in discussion, 30% on country assignments, 20% on the midterm, and 30% on the final exam. The country assignments are based on the country of your choosing out of a list given in discussion. It would require us to use concepts learned in class, to analyze our countries based on that weeks topic. Professor Homola provides in-depth instructions on what is expected in each assignment so as long as you follow the directions, you shouldn't have to worry to much about your grade on them. The midterm is taken in class with a lockdown browser and consisted of mcqs and one saq. For the final, the class was given the choice on voting on what type of exam we wanted and we chose an outside of class exam, with no lockdown browser which was nice, but I still ended running out of time as the exam is still timed. It had mcqs and multiple saqs. The final was cumulative. Every class, we had to have come prepared by having read a chapter of the required book. Professor Homola does use slides, but he also expects participation and will often as questions to the class and will expect an answer. I wanted to write this review to demonstrate how much I enjoyed the class, but have realized that this review may scare some people into taking the class as it may seem like too much, but trust me, compared to other classes here at UCLA, this one was challenging, but definitely worth it. I learned a lot, loved my TA Megan Cox, and would 100% be willing to take another class with Professor Homola.
Spring 2026 - This was my first political science class here at UCLA so I was a bit nervous, but I truly enjoyed Professor Homola's class. Your grade is based on 20% attendance and participation in discussion, 30% on country assignments, 20% on the midterm, and 30% on the final exam. The country assignments are based on the country of your choosing out of a list given in discussion. It would require us to use concepts learned in class, to analyze our countries based on that weeks topic. Professor Homola provides in-depth instructions on what is expected in each assignment so as long as you follow the directions, you shouldn't have to worry to much about your grade on them. The midterm is taken in class with a lockdown browser and consisted of mcqs and one saq. For the final, the class was given the choice on voting on what type of exam we wanted and we chose an outside of class exam, with no lockdown browser which was nice, but I still ended running out of time as the exam is still timed. It had mcqs and multiple saqs. The final was cumulative. Every class, we had to have come prepared by having read a chapter of the required book. Professor Homola does use slides, but he also expects participation and will often as questions to the class and will expect an answer. I wanted to write this review to demonstrate how much I enjoyed the class, but have realized that this review may scare some people into taking the class as it may seem like too much, but trust me, compared to other classes here at UCLA, this one was challenging, but definitely worth it. I learned a lot, loved my TA Megan Cox, and would 100% be willing to take another class with Professor Homola.
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Fall 2024 - This is a really fun and easy class if you are interested in European Politics. Even tho I am not the most interested in some of the topics that were covered in this class I still felt like I learned a lot and was never really stressed about the class. The exams were online and open note with a fair amount of time to answer all the questions. The TAs were really nice and helpful like the professor. Some of the voting systems you may already have heard of just from interest in politics like I did but the class overall should be an easy A. There is one textbook but you can find it online pretty easily and there isn’t much reading. The reading is gone over in class and the professor encourages participation and asking questions. It is a class I would definitely recommend. Also he gave extra credit on the final exam so I think I got like over 100% as a grade in this class. Professor Homola’s classes I expect to become as hard to get as Bransetter’s in the near future so take them while you can.
Fall 2024 - This is a really fun and easy class if you are interested in European Politics. Even tho I am not the most interested in some of the topics that were covered in this class I still felt like I learned a lot and was never really stressed about the class. The exams were online and open note with a fair amount of time to answer all the questions. The TAs were really nice and helpful like the professor. Some of the voting systems you may already have heard of just from interest in politics like I did but the class overall should be an easy A. There is one textbook but you can find it online pretty easily and there isn’t much reading. The reading is gone over in class and the professor encourages participation and asking questions. It is a class I would definitely recommend. Also he gave extra credit on the final exam so I think I got like over 100% as a grade in this class. Professor Homola’s classes I expect to become as hard to get as Bransetter’s in the near future so take them while you can.
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