Not worth your time. Final consists of things we went over once. He had to re tally my grade because they screwed it up.

Professor Renschon is a great lecturer and always connects the material to interesting concepts and ideas. Although the class can be challenging, Renschon was very receptive to feedback and implemented many extra credit opportunities throughout the semester. My only criticism is that the readings were often redundant or completely unnecessary.

I did not love PS170 lectures were quite boring and there were lots of readings (like 80 pages a week) He also chooses not to put the grades tab on canvas so if you want to know your grade you have to personally ask. The class also had flipped lectures pretty often that he just reused online lectures from summer for which was a bit annoying.

You'll succeed in this class only if you are already good at conducting research. The in class assignments were the most stressful because you are given no information about their content before the class when they are due, and you are not allowed to pick your own research topic. I would never take this class again.

I've switched majors so I've taken research methods in both SOC and JOURN (both 600 level), but PS170 was so much harder. Horrible explanation of topics, makes artificial/incorrect distinctions that don't aid understanding, incoherent grading (not salty 94 final), can't imagine the impression of the PS dept. freshmen are getting from this class

You'll be fine in this class if you took statistics before because this class uses statistical concepts w/o the math, however, you'd be fine without prior stats. The lectures were fine, all the information you need for the assignments and the exams is provided in the slides that he presents and posts. Attendance is mandatory, he accepts late work.

I found the lectures to be really boring. He only read off the slides and went way too fast to take coherent notes. The TAs also were confused on some of the lecture material. I did not use the textbook or do any readings.

Professor Renshon was able to make typically boring content interesting during lecture and did a good job teaching the essentials of political science research. The readings are often pretty dry and long but lecture covered all the essentials with interesting examples and class interaction.

Seminar class: Decision-making in Nuclear Crises. Large majority of the class is reading scholarly articles written by other professors for HW then discussing them in class. Readings are dense and take a lot of time. Wouldn't choose this class if I had a redo. Final is long research paper. If you like research then you may like this. Graded fairly

Readings are DENSE, and there's quite a few of them, but you can probably skim and still be fine. Tough grader, but gives good feedback. Always willing to talk outside of class, and is pretty nice. If you show up and survive the busy work, your grade will mainly hinge on the final 20+ page research paper. Avoid this class if that sounds spooky...

Lectures are vague; the exam content is largely focused on the readings. As a person, he is pretentious and inflexible.

Very tough grader. His rubrics for this class are misleading - I followed them to a T and usually got horrid grades. His feedback on mistakes isn't very encouraging either - very vague and expectant that you can fix major mistakes without much if any help. With that said, he knows Political Psychology well and enjoys the topic.

Prof. Renshon is an interesting lecturer who often gets into very specific experiment analysis given his background as a social scientist. Be prepared to read long studies that are quite interesting if you have the time. Lectures are often shorter than scheduled and Renshon is always reasonable with his class policies.

He is a great prof. This is a required course. Take it with this prof instead of the others!

Hated this course. Avoid at all costs.