Right now, I'm registered in POLS 206 and 207, but the 206 is honors which i really dont want to do, so I'm thinking about dropping it. I have 207 w/ Vanhightower, has anyone had her??

nobody can make that class interesting. I took it with Tucker back in the day, I can't imagine Vanhightower being any worse.

I had Van Hightower and loved her. Totally made POLS 207 worthwhile. Her tests are pretty easy and she has a lot of funny stories.

ok i got outta that honors one and got signed with Calfano for POLS 206 also. So I have to decide between Vanhightower for 207 or Calfano for 206, has anyone had Calfano?

thornton is best.

I had Calfano last semester. He's a funny guy and gives tests that pull questions from the review sheets he gives. I'd take him again.

Dont know who the best is but I'll help you narrow it down by telling you to never take Dixon

Kent is good but his tests are hard. I got an A because I know everything about American government basics.

Escobar-Lemmon was awesome....if shes teaching it this semester take it from her.

Van Hightower tests 99% from the lecture. If you dont want to go to class, go to Notes and Quotes and buy the semester notes. Four 40 question tests, 1/2 TF and 1/2 mult choice. Funny lady.

Pretty sure I had Luttbeg for that class, he was funny the day that he brought in his map of all the speedtrap towns in texas and demonstrated how they were all centered around major routes to college towns.

Marlin, Reagan, Calvert, Hearne were all on that map as towns that had to be sanctioned by the state of texas for writing too many tickets.

I had Vanhightower. She was still steaming over her loss to the Dems in some Houston election!!

I heard Vanhitower was a Marxist/feminist

Dr. Escobar is a good prof

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I heard Vanhitower was a Marxist/feminist

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You probably heard that from someone who couldn't make an A in POLS 207. I swear that class was one of the easiest I've had at A&M.

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pro06 posted 2:11p, 01/22/07
I had Vanhightower. She was still steaming over her loss to the Dems in some Houston election!!

AggieMavsfan posted 6:29a, 01/23/07
I heard Vanhitower was a Marxist/feminist

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A Republican Marxist? now Ive heard everything lol. As a person who at least intellectually appreciates Marx, Im insulted that anyone who liked Marx would have anything to do with Republicans.

I hope its not the case.

TAKE VANHIGHTOWER!!! Just take the notes and DONT READ. You'll make a high B or A easily. I studied maybe an hour for her tests and never scored below an 88.

Ok so I went with Van Hightower, thanks alot for ya'lls input, I really appreciate it. Let's hope for that easy A now!

Take Lim. She's a liberal but you never have to go to class and it's an easy A.

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thornton is best.

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Was he the shorter guy that would repeat things in class three times in a row if it was going to be on the test, and would let class out half an hour early most of the time?

Easiest class I took as far as studying went.

I think some of the prof's have come and gone since I graduated, but I highly recommend Dr. Dixon for any Pols course. He might not be the "easiest," but you certainly walking away with a wealth of knowledge.

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The way to go. Check Pickaprof or the A&M site. Highest class average. Class was a joke.

For 206 it was some guy with a last name starting with a P, Indian sounding... Again, an absolute joke and verified by highest class average on Pickaprof.

Uhh, Luttbeg actually has the 2nd lowest average GPA at 2.37. Over half the class gets less than 2 grade points for their work. His textbook is chalk full of factual errors and grammatical errors. Very little of it is traditional POLS topics. Most of it is random research samplings about why he thinks that NOTHING ever matters in politics.

That said, I made an A because I did all the reading, and carefully analyzed what was being said. And this semester I purposely took a prof rated as easier, and was lured into a false sense of security that landed me a C on my very first test.

Mavsfan hit it on the head. Luttbeg's approach makes 207 completely useless instead of just boring.

Escobar by far.

Don't take dixon.

Tucker preaches from Lutbegg's book like its the Gospel truth. Both suck. I have experienced Tucker, but have only heard bad from Lutbeg and of course had to read his book.

lim is pretty easy

Take Van Hightower. WHo cares what her politics are? Study the lecture notes and get an A. I had a major family death my fish year, and she was way more than some profs in letting me reschedule the final.

I didn't have any problems with Dixon or Hurley. Both have low average GPRs though.

Anyone who recommends Dixon would probably agree that being mind-f ked by a jackhammer is intensely pleasurable.

That man is all kinds of f ked up. I've never seen someone go on so many tangents. Even his freakin' tangents had tangents. And guess what? Those tangents gave birth to more tangents. And so on.

Well, I was a POLS major also.

I honestly didn't think he was that bad, but people complain about him, so take it for what it's worth.

Luttbeg is supposed to be cool.

I loved Dr. Dixon. One of my favorite Poli Sci profs

Dixon's class was just a disorganized rant. The "tangents had tangents" description is very accurate. Another thing: 4.0 and go offers POLS 207 tutoring for only one prof: Dixon! That's because you never have any idea what's coming your way. I am a very good student, but I barely scraped an A in that class.

I am in Dixon right now, he is not that hard. He might ramble a little bit, but you just have to get the main points out of his lectures. If you read the chapters before/after each lecture, its a piece of cake.

If you think this class is "hard" you might want to rethink coming to A&M.