Professor Weeks is wonderful. She's extremely encouraging, kind, knowledgeable about the content, and facilitates excellent class discussions. She cares about every student and works to integrate student feedback & make her course as accessible and straightforward as possible. Very responsive via email and helpful during office hours.

Unclear grading criteria for short assignments; readings were not always useful; student feedback was accepted, but tried to justify the reasoning for certain things that came across as defensive; did encourage participation from everyone; relied on your personal reflection for participation grade; get ready to write a LOT for your final

There were long readings due twice a week, essential that you read them to be prepared for the lecture, which was centered entirely on the readings. Professor Weeks was clearly knowledgeable about them and foreign policy in general. Simulation grading was a bit unclear, but overall a good addition to an otherwise reading/writing only class.

The professor and her TA, Andrew Fairley, were consistently lackluster in their grading and course quality. Both were repeatedly unprepared, yet they graded us with an unreasonable level of perfection. It is sad to see this, as they were both nice people. The professors credentials do not reflect her level of quality in the course.

Professor weeks is not knowledgeable in her field. There were times where she didn't understand the concepts of a particular reading. Given her credentials, you'd imagine she be the best at what does but that is not the case. Everything is graded very unfairly and the expectations do not meet her performance. Midterms were not well throughout.

Tough grader for projects but tests were generally easy. If you understand key terms and regularly attend lectures you'll do fine in the class, but getting an A will take extra grind. Great teacher, but 170 was eh. Maybe more a fault of class and circumstances.

Great Professor. One thing I appreciate is how she clearly outlines what will be tested in the midterm and the final exams. She also provides numerous resources on Canvas for study purposes. The grading is fair. Overall, this class is heavy on lectures and memorization, but if you put in effort, it shouldn't be a big deal

Honestly, it is just a boring and ridiculous class. No one I know even remotely likes the class. The midterm avg was well below 70%, yet nothing changed in how she "teaches." She just reads what is on the slides. Also, your grade is based on very few tasks. If you need to take 170 for your major, I highly recommend taking it with someone else.

She bores me and doesn't really explain anything. Also, grades are mostly based on the midterm and final. But, she is really good at pointing at and reading directly of the slides.

Professor Weeks is great! She is really understanding of her students needs. The readings in the class get pretty long and detailed, but she is good about outlining the main ideas in lectures and only putting what she talks about in lectures on the exams. Discussion sections are difficult though if you don't do the readings.

She is knowledgeable about her field of study and pleasant to talk to, but her grading style is a bit frustrating. You either write too much or not enough, and it gets irritating after a while. Got A's on my written projects, but then received an A- in the course because I didn't speak up enough in class (according to her). Super disrespectful.

Took Weeks for required research methods. She's a good professor and it's a good class especially if you don't want to get deep into stats but want more of an overview of all the different methods.

I really enjoyed this class. Professor Weeks is super kind and the material was pretty interesting but not too hard.

If you are interested in learning about how to run surveys and experiments in the social sciences you could take this class... or you could read the book in about a quarter of the time. This is not the course for you if you are an ambitious PS major.

Professor Weeks is amazing! Although it was an online course, and I did not get to meet her in person, you can tell she really cares about her students and wants you to succeed. The class was not too bad and is really concept based, so if you're nervous about math/research, I wouldn't be. Really gentle course!

Professor Weeks is the real deal. Most classes are not fun but I loved this one. The simulation was an awesome activity. Tip: do the readings, they help a lot.

Professor Weeks exemplifies the depressing situation of a grade A scholar with B to C levels of teaching techniques. Over the course she tactfully inserted Q&A and group discussion sessions to fill the time thats supposed to be used for actually teaching the course material. Also, the instruction style is a bit dry and bland. Please dont bother.

Super easy class, and she gives opportunities for extra credit. I think the exam average was a B or an AB come to class/discussion and youll probably get an A.

Fine but forgettable. Very easy material. Occasional short papers but little else; supposed to do readings but fairly easy to b.s. Make sure to know concepts from readings and class for tests though - tests are fairly challenging. Uses Tophat so be sure to show up

Good prof

not an easy class but lectures are clear and professor is nice. posts slides online which is helpful.

Weeks isn't a bad Prof, the nature of the class made it difficult to teach. She often took substantial time out of class to explain the assignments to the students. The class requirements and what it does for the Political Science major need to be changed, I felt as though it was trying to be both "on the surface" and "in-depth." Which is too much

Weeks is nice, but this class was harder than I expected for being a 200 level course. A lot of concepts were left vague and you really had to work to get a decent grade. Since it's now required for the poli sci major, there's no way around this class unless you want to take a full on statistics course.