Fall 2026

Legislative Internship

POLISCI 315 is a legislative internship providing practical experience in a legislative office, policy research, and readings on the legislative process.

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Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Amy Gangl3.9/5

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Students report low difficulty and minimal weekly time commitments, typically 3 to 8 hours, consisting of discussion posts and final projects based on internship work.

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Raw average: 4.24/5 from 17 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

For this course: 3.7/5 raw quality · 1.0/5 difficulty · 3 reviews

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Amy Gangl is praised for being organized and understanding, with students recommending the course for easy political science credits and learning about state politics. Reviewers note the workload involves busy work, with one finding it adds to existing internship hours and another describing the office work as manageable at 6-8 hours per week.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=53 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=54 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=59 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

AMY GANGL is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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LEC 001Online Only35 / 1000

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Student experience

the class

Amy Gangl's POLISCI 315 is an online internship-based course with low difficulty, though students disagree on whether the additional assignments are valuable learning or busy work.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=53 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=54 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=59 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Students report low difficulty and minimal weekly time commitments, typically 3 to 8 hours, consisting of discussion posts and final projects based on internship work.

Experiences diverge on the quality of the workload; one reviewer found the assignments to be busy work, while another praised the instructor's organization and understanding nature.

Topics

  • Legislative office operations
  • Policy research
  • Legislative process

Skills

  • Practical legislative office experience
  • Policy research
  • Understanding legislative process

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POLISCI 315 · Fall 2026

Legislative Internship

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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