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Being a sophomore and someone who needed Intro to Pol as his degree requirements, I was really worried throughout these past two years as I was not getting Intro to Pol due to enrollment issues. I used to hear it from all my peers that I really need to take this course as soon as possible because this course builds your base in political science. Unfortunately I took a couple of other Pol courses before taking this one to ensure my credit hours were on track. This semester I finally got enrolled in Intro to Pol and I can without any qualms say, what a base this course has built for me.

Throughout this course, one thing, which stood out for me, was that this course made me think. There was never a point where we had to open the course book, rote learn concepts and then just reproduce them on a piece of paper. This course was definitely taught in the best way possible. We as students are so immune to the system that all we do is we learn the course pack inside out and then during exams and quizzes we vomit everything we have learned on the examination paper. The best thing about this course was the fact that we had no quizzes or written exams. Instead we had blog posts that made us think before approaching or applying the various concepts we learned in this course. By the help of writing our own blogs and then commenting on other people’s blogs, we got a chance to make this class as interactive as possible. Each one of us by now knows the writing style of any other person and while blogging; I would definitely go and read the blog posts of those of my favorite writers. Not only this, we got a chance to apply all the concepts practically through the presentations, field work and the constructive debates that used to go on in class.

Coming to the topics we uncovered during this course. We literally touched upon every single topic we need to know in the field of Politics. This course was good enough for anyone who had no idea whatsoever about politics to get a grasp of the various concepts that are used while studying politics. Through this course, I even got to bash the ever popular and everyone’s famous so called “democracy,” through my mid term paper. I would conclude my blogging by saying that the thing that stood out for me the most, and I repeat is that this course constantly made me think about everything I learned. It was never about learning and re producing, it was about learning and then practically and pragmatically applying those concepts in our everyday lives! That was the standing out factor for me definitely.