[POLS BC3012] The United Nations and International Conflict

I agree with most what was said about this professor already. If you are considering taking her class, no matter which one, be sure you know at least something about Middle East. Although she desperately tries to be coherent and organized, she presents new material in a very scattered manner so that at the end of this three-hour class I got totally lost in details of so many case studies. She once mentioned her first experience in teaching that after her first class somebody said that she cannot really teach. I think it is still true today. A detailed knowledge of Middle East does not make one a great teacher. Especially when a teacher asks other students about African countries that she lacks knowledge about. She also have a tendency to bring into the discussion cases that are not at all on the syllabus. She asks questions on them and you feel a complete idiot, because you have not even heard that there was such a case. Also, I really liked the discussion board questions, but the midterm topics were boring and not interesting (e.g. how much credit does the UN get in the process of decolonization? I think it is 35%--- Stupid questions deserve stupid answers. The readings are nice and interesting at times, but with the case studies like East Timor or Sierra Leone you really get lost in details and feel like the readings are not enough, so I had to go to some more material to get the grasp of the problem.
Overall, the class is not really difficult, but I am not sure what I got more of it: a bogger mass or knowledge.