UCSD's Political Science Major

92faim
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:44:44 +0000

I took POLI 30 with Kousser and I couldn’t have spent more than 15-20 hours on that class the entire quarter and got an A. I didn’t even attend maybe 25% or so of the lectures. I’m not “good at” math, I’ve never taken statistics, and the course does not require calculus at all, which I can attest to. I even heard that Kousser is one of the more rigorous professors for that class which is so ridiculous because I really don’t know how he could’ve made the class easier. I heard Desposato and Galderisi are easy too. It’s really not a bad class. I might be worried if you’re horrible with math, but at least for Kousser, the math in that class involved memorizing 3 equations and knowing how to plug numbers into them. and realizing that the proportion .68 represents 68%. Seriously.