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Antoine Banks GVPT422 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/24/2012	The class has nothing quantitative about it despite the title which I liked because I'm not a math person. The focus is more on research designs and how experiments/surveys are created around a question. Professor Banks is a nice guy but not the best lecturer. He jumps around a lot within a topic, continuously referencing articles that he's read but no one else has and starts to make a point before deciding halfway to drop the connection. His ppowerpoints are never more than 10 slides and packed with information that he throws up all at once while discussing an important part of the reading so I recommend taping the class if you can and going back through the lecture again later. He doesn't post his slides online so make sure you go to class. The readings aren't bad and are focused around mostly interesting topics. Two exams, one paper, three problem sets focused around research design. I used this to fulfill the gvpt quantitative class and it wasn't a bad choice.
Antoine Banks GVPT422 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/21/2010	Quantitative political anaylsis was a very interesting class. He puts articles online and they are pretty easy to read. My study guides for the two exams consisted of a summary of 6-7 articles, and the tests are straight from the readings.