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 :)

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

This class can go very well for you as long as you do the weekly readings. They play an important role in doing well on the exams. Lectures play a big role on the weekly quizzes and yes they are early but worth it and can give you extra credit. Professor is very easy to talk to and very encouraging. Discussions are really boring though.

Professor Brooks uses interesting material to make relevant political points. Half the grade is two essay exams which is a little much. The class is overall interesting without too much work. He only asks you to read two articles a week but you can do well in the class if you just pay attention in the lecture. Make sure to do the extra credit!

overall pretty good class. Prof. Brooke obviously cares about his students, and grading is very easy, with only a final, and midterm plus weekly open note canvas quizzes. Lectures are mandatory as well as discussion (My lecture was at 8:00 which made this difficult) but it's not an issue otherwise. Material is also digestable with weekly readings.

Professor Brooke's lectures pretty much just summarized the essential points of the assigned readings for the day, which made for some dry lectures, but they taught everything you might need to know to apply a reading on his written exams. Good communicator, accommodating of student needs, responsive to emails. Overall a solid professor.

Professor Brooke was super passionate and engaging, and he clearly cares a lot about the material and his students. The readings were horribly dry at times but he made them interesting when he went over them in lecture so it's not the end of the world if you miss one.

You can attend lectures, in which Prof. Brooke goes on and on repeating the same 2-3 main points in the most various ways. You can attend discussions which TAs seem to not care about at all. You can read two unnecessarily long and dry weekly papers. reads paper: "interregnum of intra-elite squabbling" *throws laptop at the wall*

Took Steven's Poli Sci 120 class as a graduating Senior and he is probably in my top 3 professors here at UW. The class is extremely manageable (very little work) and not difficult. Even though his lectures are not mandatory since he posts the slide, I found them extremely interesting. He is very energetic speaking, passionate, and caring.

Lectures were interesting but tended to drag on and become super repetitive. Lots of long and dry readings each week, but if you show up to lecture, it's manageable.

Professor Brooke is my all time favorite professor this semester. The class itself is super interesting if you're looking for a comparatist perspective. He's very caring about his students and gives off dad vibes. Always responds to my emails and is there to help. Posts lecture slides online but definitely go. Class is out of 100pts total.

Prof. Brooke is nice and compassionate about comp. politics. This class was relatively engaging and a good intro class. We had to read two research papers weekly, but he went over the readings in lecture which helped with understanding. Your grade is based on weekly quizzes, section participation, and 3 essay exams (between 950 - 1500 words).

Awesome class, with an even better professor. Textbook/Readings not to needed unless you want extra practice, he went over everything in lectures very well, online lectures at least(never had in person).

Best class ever, the reason Im majoring in Poli Sci now. Hes extremely clear with the learning objectives (a set of questions that are literally the exam questions) so SUPER easy because you basically know all the exam questions prior. Takes 8 random attendance, only count 5, the rest count as 1% extra credit on final grade!! TAKE HIS CLASS.

LOVED this class. Despite the fact that 8am lectures are the worst this class somehow kept me awake and engaged. Brooke is an amazing professor. Textbook is required but I never read it, just make sure to read the papers he puts on canvas. Tests are super easy if you study the lecture slides. I finished all of them within 20 minutes.

The textbook is required but it was not necessary as I did not do any of the textbook readings. He also assigns political science papers but he goes through all of the information during lecture (so you don't have to read that either). The midterm questions are objectives taken directly off the slides, so that is all you have to study.

His lectures were fine and his slides were excellent. Assigned readings are tough but he goes through them each class. Attendance is taken randomly throughout the semester. There were three exams and one policy memo. The exams were very easy and the memo wasn't bad either. Try to learn the answer to each learning objective and 120 is an easy A.

This guy is an amazing lecturer. Readings are tough but he goes over them in lecture. Lecture attendance is randomly taken (& u get extra credit if you have more points). The tests are based off the readings and he gives you exact objectives in lecture that he bases the tests off of. Make a quizlet for those objectives and you're golden.

Great class. Professor Brooke assigns long readings before each lecture, but he goes over them in detail so reading them wasn't necessary. Very little work outside of class if you don't read and fair tests!

Professor Brooke was amazing! He had great lectures and kept class interesting. The readings were usually straight from Political Science Journals or books, so they were a bit difficult, but he did a great job presenting them in lecture. There were only three exams and no final. Attendance is crucial to understanding the lecture slides he posts.