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Awesome professor. Im not a poli sci major (took the class for fun) and was worried about the theory but Professor Brooke does a great job at explaining concepts. You can get an easy A if you just show up to class and listen :)Rate My Professors ↗
Professor Brooke makes difficult concepts comprehensible. He gives lots of extra credit opportunities to raise your grade, and his grading is very straightforward. The readings do take time and concepts might be confusing, but he goes over them in lecture. Highly recommend PS120 with Dr. Brooke.Rate My Professors ↗
The best professor I had here. The lectures are super amazing. He managed to explain the concept very well. The exams are not tough, you just need to understand the materials and organize the notes that you bring to the exams. The readings are quite tough, so please make sure that you read them as early as possible.Rate My Professors ↗
Prof Brooke is such a great teacher. He provides numerous extra credit opportunities. Go to the out of class events, there is great food and the speakers are interesting. The readings can be dense but Prof Brooke does a great job of explaining them in lecture.Rate My Professors ↗
It is a lot of dense readings, but if you do them and go to lecture it is a lot easier to understand because he is really good at explaining the ideas. You get points from going to lecture-so you should go!- and there are extra credit opportunities as well. He makes it really easy to succeed as long as you do your part!Rate My Professors ↗
Professor Brooke is a very passionate and helpful professor. There are only two exams (during class) that were very manageable. Discussion sections were boring but you barely need to participate to get an A, just show up. Lectures have random attendance taken 15 times, after 10 it is extra credit. Also gave 5 other extra credit options, all easy.Rate My Professors ↗
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