Gregory Wawro

i like prof wawro! i found his lectures honestly very interesting. you don't need to do the readings but definitely need to attend every class. his passion for the subject he's teaching shines through and he is a nice and approachable guy. he makes difficult content easy to digest. the only thing is i wish that there were more grades in the course -- there was only a midterm, a paper, and a final with the midterm and final being pretty hard so you remain worried about your grade for most of the semester. also, i wish i knew there would be as much graphing type content in the course because that was unexpected. i truly learned a lotttt from this class and am really glad i took it. take this class if you're willing to put in the work and want to learn!

If you are looking for a round up of American Politics topics of interest, don't look here. This course is lazily composed by the instructors, with no real thread except taking exciting topics such as the presidency and congress, then sucking any interest out completeley by boiling them down into their constitutuent theoretical parts. It was a sad moment of the course when towards the end of the semester a professor of law guested, and was clearly much more interesting than either Erickson or Wawro. They are not bad professors as such - but they don't put in enough effort to make it interesting, and if this is an introduction to american politics, for god's sake make it a little more relevent. I have nothing against theoritical political science as such, but by divorcing it from 'historical' analysis (eg, the news), there isn't a way in for interested novices. There must be a better intro than this.

Professor Wawro is a very good professor, overall. I really enjoyed his class, and found him to be quite knowledgable. At the beginning of the semester, he used power point slides, but he later gave this up and lectured without them. His lectures, the course readings, and the term papers were quite thought provoking. He brought in great outside speakers. Though there was a lot of reading, it was manegable. All in all, if you must take this class, Professor Wawro is a good bet. Just watch out for the mediocre TA's (don't be afraid to shop around for discussion sections)

Wawro obviously loves Congress, but is the most boring professor at the university. He was never great at answering questions, but he definitely tried. He and the TA's were always on different pages. I ended up getting an A in the class and received a perfect score on the midterm, but it was still painful sitting through his lectures. He didn't understand when his students understood a topic or were completely lost. The readings were completely useless and were around 300 pages per week. I did the first three weeks but then felt the added nothing since he wrote a bunch of them and would just do the material in class.

I took this course to get a good grade to boost my GPA, like most people that arent poli sci majors. I heard that it was really simple and straightforward but i found out that this guy isnt! First of all I had the TA from hell. Our class really studied for the midterm and he gave our disc section a avg of a 76! I went to this guy's OH and he gave me the run around, you must make it plainly clear that you want an A. From then on I got an A+ on the Final Paper and probably an A or something on the Final because I ended up with an A as a final grade. But this didnt come without some anxiety. Just stick with it, since the lectures SUCK!!!! He is so uninteresting and boring. The moral of the story is get a good TA and just go over the highlighted words in the main textbook.

Professor Wawro is a great lecturer. The class did not have a discussion section -- his classes were easy to follow. He posts an outline before lectures and sticks closely to it. He is always available to meet. The one downside to this class for me were the TAs. They were clueless and useless.They ran midterm and final review sessions which were a complete waste of time. They could not answer a single question about how to prioritize material/small details from his lecture which made it hard to prep for the tests. But - Midterm and Final were fair and graded pretty easily -- first section of terms (answer 4 out of 6), then an essay section - for midterm choose 1 essay out of 2, for final choose 2 essays out of 3.

Wawro doesn't get enough credit. Given he's no Gulati, he is still an open-minded, intelligent teacher who's very open in class. The class is a little a boring but so is the material. Basically the class wasn't bad and Wawro did a good job under the circumstances. Word of advice: the TAs grade everything, so maintain contact with yours and attend the the discussion sections.

literally the best prof out there. I highly recommend this class. Wawro really takes the time to consider each students questions and give them in depth answers and the lectures end up feeling like a conversation. The material was interesting and well structured and you could tell that Wawro really loves the material. All around a great course!

I took his class and regret it. Don't go over on your paper length. I went over by two pages and was deducted half a grade.

This course is a pretty approachable and relatively low-commitment survey course into the American Congress. Because Congress is a pretty dry/complex/technical topic, I wouldn't say it's the most invigorating or exciting class due to that, but Professor Wawro is really nice, super knowledge, and really cares about his students. It's really not too bad workload-wise, but I will say that you definitely don't need to buy all the books since a lot of the reading is redundant.