If you want to learn random facts about John Warner and Harry Byrd, this class is for you. If you want to truly learn about political science and state/local politics, this class is not for you. There are 200 pages of reading a week, it’s easy to get through but time consuming and you don’t really learn anything substantive. You have weekly reading quizzes, GIS Activities, and a large project that’s graded on the basis of how much Kromkowski likes you. He asks you to identify the “methods” used in the reading, but most of them are historical type readings. I talked to a real political science professor (Kromkowski isn’t tenured/tenure track) who said quite literally that this class is a BS class. I was telling him that I was taking a quantitative methods class and he told me to make sure I could “keep up” because I wasn’t good at GIS. As if he knows anything about methods, that would be fine but just shows that overall, he’s overly harsh and rude and his class doesn’t teach you much, stay away!!