This class is not necessarily hard, but it's a flipped classroom. You have to do all the learning outside of class on CourseKata and its a lot of just reading. It is basically an introductory course on R coding language and as a non stem major just looking for a quantitative reasoning GE, it wasn't the worst but I knew that it was a waste of my time (but it will get you the GE credit). I would say that it's somewhat manageable but it is very easy to fall behind. If you can manage to keep up with teaching yourself the chapters each week it isn't too hard. He has quizzes every other week 4 quizzes total. 2 are take home and 2 are in person. The quizzes aren't bad as long as you are up to date with the chapters. The homework is the worksheet/notebook that we do in lecture and the completed lectures. There's grace periods offered for both the lectures and notebooks. He doesn't take attendance but you'll have to do the notebook on your own. He also offers 2 ways to calculate your grade one favoring test takers and one favoring homework doers.
Again, if you are someone who isn't great at reading/self-teaching or keeping up with homework or prefer in-person lecturing then this is not the class for you. I wouldn't have minded the flipped classroom if the lectures were recordings or if they were videos but they're not. The professor doesn't really teach he just speed runs through the notebook during the class.

I wouldn't recommend this class unless you're really passionate about international politics, and even then I'd be reluctant to suggest it. Professor Roberts is a nice guy, but he's not a good lecturer. He breezes through his powerpoint slides making it very difficult to absorb any of the material. Every week you're expected to complete two online quizzes which require you to do his assigned readings, which can be very lengthy, dense, and difficult to understand. The midterm and final exams are difficult. Had he not allowed us to use a double-sided cheat sheet, I don't know how I would have passed the exams. He also assigns several group projects, which depending on your approach too classes you may or may not like. Overall, a really stressful class.

Don't do it unless you absolutely need to! not worth the stress

Professor Tyson was awesome! He was very easy to talk to; He offers so many opportunities to get the best grade in his class. His work was very interesting, manageable, and not at all overwhelming, which I'm super grateful for. He was always prepared, engaging, thoughtful, and funny. He cares about respect and likes when we engage in his lectures. He is always prepared when it comes to our homework assignments, giving his lectures, having opportunities to do our absolute best on tests, and more. I super recommend him!! If you want an interesting class that's not overwhelming and has so many opportunities to get the best grade, then I know you'll love his class, I would def retake it, and I recommend you do as well!! He's the best! During his class, he does zoom at the same time, so if you can't make it, you can watch it via zoom or watch it later in his canvas! Good luck! <3

I really enjoyed Prof. Roberts, his lectures were super interesting and engaging. The textbook was also very strong. The use of podcasts and other supplemental media besides the textbook really reinforce what is taught. He’s also extremely approachable and willing to explain concepts. Especially today given things like inflation and interest rates being in the news it was really cool to learn how all these things work. Subjects like exchange rates and principles of comparative advantage are clearly explained and I personally enjoyed learning from him. Am going to take another of his classes after this experience

The class was based on two midterms that were each worth 15%, a final worth 20%, Inquizitives worth 20%, a Current Event Analysis worth 10%, and participation in section worth 20%. The textbook was available online for about $45 which was good, but you could also purchase the physical version if you wanted to. If you did that though, you would still need to pay a small amount to have access to the Inquizitives. The textbook was absolutely necessary to have as the whole class was based on it. The professor did lectures but they often were really just a repetition of the textbook, so I did not think they were necessary or very helpful to be present for. However, I think there were some helpful bits but if you stick to reading the textbook and doing notes, you should be good. There were a total of 14 chapters we needed to get through for this class and in the end it felt kind of rushed, making me a bit overwhelmed at times. After each chapter we needed to complete an Inquizitive, which I found really helpful in retaining the information and the main points we needed to be aware of. The midterms and final were all open-note and were done on our own within a certain time window, making them easy to access and fairly easy to find information if you forgot something. We had three options for completing a Current Event Analysis which required us to apply information from certain topics in the textbook to real world situations. You could do all three or just one and the highest score was applied. I thought this was a fun and easy way to look further into World Politics so I personally really enjoyed it. Overall, the class wasn't too difficult so long as you stayed on top of the textbook work and utilized the notes you took for the exams. The only critique I really had was that the professor's lectures weren't that engaging in my opinion and that the textbook seemed like a better way to understand the subject.

I never went to lectures, I took this class pass/not pass, and I was taking four classes at the time, but this class was the bane of my existence. So much tedious work, and you have to teach yourself everything. The most useless class I ever took. But if I'm being honest, if you're looking for a quantitative reasoning class that has no math, this is the class for you. I don't think I ever used my calculator; it's just not the kind of class.

Professor Roberts is incredibly enthusiastic and a fun professor to take a class from. I had him for PS 30 and he would show us clips from movies and have us make a game from them. He is definitely a nice guy and the class was easy as long as you pay attention.

Took Stats 10 with him - it was his first time teaching it. His lectures were all ppt based, and though he seemed to be engaged with the class, ultimately it felt like he's just reading off the slides and not teaching the concepts. If I hadn't taken AP stats, I would not have understand most of what was presented in class.
Course had weekly hw, biweekly labs, two midterms, final - there is no curve! final grade is what it is based on score on all assignments.

Professor Roberts is a nice guy. The class is pretty easy throughout. He doesn't always seem to know what he's talking about and him and his reader have way different standards of what assignments should be like. My issue with the class is that I received 98% and above on every assignment except the midterm (which I got 93%) and the final presentation brought me down to a B+ so I was pretty disappointed in his distribution. He gives templates for how to do assignments then his reader constantly calls almost every submission "minimalist" (for everyone not just me) and gives childish comments like "sigh....this is so minimalist." Other than that, it's doable and easy.