<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>Well, school is about to start soon... :(
and I need your input on these classes and the instructors:</p>
<p>Poli Sci 2 with M Fish</p>
<p>Poli Sci 4 with Brown</p>
<p>Anthro 3 with Brandes</p>
<p>How much reading/essays are assigned? How's the Grading? Recommended taking these?</p>
<p>Thank you~!</p>
<p>poli sci 2 with janos was amazingly horrible</p>
<p>i’ve heard better about fischer</p>
<p>LH: are you talking to me or uDorkk</p>
<p>alot of those classes satisfy ph lower divs so im guessing op is doubling in ph and a biology like myself</p>
<p>Pol Sci 2 (from the pol sci website): Course requirements: Requirements consist of two preliminary exams, a final exam, and attendance at all lectures and discussion sections. Grades will be determined as follows: 20 percent for each of the preliminary exams, 20 percent for attendance and performance in discussion sections, and 40 percent for the final exam. Students are expected to do the readings for the week in their entirety before the meeting of their discussion section.</p>
<p>No laptop computers are allowed in class.</p>
<p>*I’m in Pol Sci 2 and I got the books. There seems to be a lot of reading, but the material isn’t too hard.</p>
<p>Pol Sci 4: Course requirements: Attendance at lecture, participation in section, weekly 1-page responses to the reading, one short paper, and a take-home final.</p>
<p>Hmmm…polisci 2 with Janos was definitely a lot harder than I thought it would be, but i’ve also heard that fish isn’t too bad. Anthro 3 was pretty reading-heavy when i took it, id recommend another anthro instead. Dunno about polisci 4</p>
<p>PS 2 with Chibber was the 2nd worst class I took at Cal… don’t do it!</p>
<p>Anthro 3 seems fun 
(a lot of busy work though) As I heard from friends.</p>
<p>PS 4 should be decent.
[I only took upper-div political theory classes, but they were pretty good… really enlightening]</p>
<p>I didn’t go to lecture or discussion for Poli Sci 2 with Janos…I kept getting the feeling that Janos didn’t realize we were in a comparative governments class. Judging from the content of the emails I received from my GSI, there was an exorbitant amount of political theory involved in the course and far too little comparative politics. Anyway, this is how I dealt with the class:</p>
<p>-I woke up at 1:00 AM the morning of the midterm, read until lecture started, took the midterm, forgot about the class until the essay was due.
-The morning the essay was due, I woke up at 1:00AM, read until 8:00AM and wrote until discussion started, turned it in, left, and forgot about the class until the day of the final.
-I wiki-ed the key terms from 8:00AM until an hour before the final started, took the final, and forgot about it.
-I passed the class. Take it for what it’s worth. </p>
<p>I always heard that Poli Sci 2 is one of the most annoying PS courses though.</p>