So incredibly boring. Course could be interesting but Stolle's monotony ruins it

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Funny and sexiest hair... ever!

The powerpoint princess!

Incredibly witty and enthusiastic about her fieldof study. Awesome prof & hair

Lots of reading in her class, but it gets more interesting over time.

Very competent and interesting. Needs more confidence when teaching. Overall A+!

Love the German accent, the hair, and the clothes. Oh, and a great prof too.

knowledgeable in technology and WebCT. Great woman!

You've got to give her credit for her astounding organizational skills

loves to give thumbs up...reading is huge, repetitive...german=efficient

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u dont know what ure talking about EEEE-ZZZZ and HOT and SWEET and ENTHUSIASTIC

sweet lady, really organized and clear with the powerpoint, too much reading

Yeah baby, she is HOT!

Very engaged and interesting, clear presentation

Interesting, organized, very intelligent... lots of reading.

Dietlind ist gut.

webct was AMAZING!

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Very into her teaching and material. Reading can get tough, but stick with it. A really great professor and person.

This course should be called POLITICS OF GERMANY. Her class totally turned me off politics and she was not clear at all. She made a bunch of unsuported arguments and the workload was not that of a 200 level course. Overall this class sucked

Prof. Stolle is such an amazing professor and has an incredible perspective because she's from the former East Germany. There is a lot of reading because this is an introduction to comparative politics - a huge field of study!!!

i would take her again...

Pretty good prof overall. The course was easy and theren't wasn't that much work to do. Hard to find a better teacher, easy to do worse.

There was way more reading for this class than all of my other classes so that's what made it tougher. I found her humour a bit... bizarre/German but I really enjoyed her class and would take another tought by her.

Interesting if you are willing to put effort into reading. She makes the class fun with movie clips etc. Very large class though 600ish students.

If she could possibly lecture without reading her notes word for word she would be alot more interesting. She is passionate about her subject but obviously inexperienced

Lectures are pointless to attend half the time,and you don't really need to do the reading...however, if you do show up it is interesting and the readings aren't that bad...it's really what you make of it...what, you expected something useful??&#6

very nice woman, but she needs to be teaching kindergarten. too touchy feely.

I really enjoyed prof Stolle's class. she really tries hard and is EXTREMELY helpful outside of lectures. You dont necessarily have to go to classes. Lots of reading tho....I would definitely take her again.

Excellent Instructor. Would surely take a class from her again. Her classes are really interesting, the only class where I always went to her lectures. Class was fairly easy but not too easy. Just read and go to class, really.

She is a wonderful teacher who makes the lectures as interesting as possible. Lots of reading though. However, going back i would take the class again and would take others she teaches.

Very interesting lectures...more reading than I had anticipated, but even the book/course pack selections are pretty interesting. I decided to pursure a comparative politics minor because of her class...I would definitely take another.

Very good teacher, puts a lot of effort into the course (she even includes Simpsons and Family Guy episodes in her lecture). Also a very nice person, but some of the complaints about the nature of the course are true - it did get a little weird at times.

I prefer dungeon torture to attending her lectures- they were unbearable. The course mixed too many strong-minded individuals for any sort of group harmony. She's a great person though and her lecture on E. Germany was the courses saving grace.

Definetly good course for intro. Lectures are well-organized, use multi-media, fresh and enthusiastic. Even with 600, students are participating in class.

The topics were centered around her personal interests; women in politics, E. Germany, The Green Party- Latin America wasn't even mentioned. My lecture notes looked more like Stolle's autobiography!! And shes kinda scary lookin upclose

Oh how unfair...Loved this prof. She is very engaged, open to students, and totally into teaching. I decided to take more comparative politics because of this course.

ridiculous amount of reading, too easy to fall behind, a bad TA and you're done (to be honest mine barely spoke english), needed better online notes

she means well but her reading load is too heavy for a 200-level class... conference is brutal... interesting subject but she does it more harm them good, too much time spent on hypthesis testing and not enough time on actaully comparisons..

It was just a perfect course, lively and engaged. The literature was state of the art, and very up to date, so at least I LEARNED something in this course, something you can't say from every course. It was worth the effort.

Great course. I just loved it. I've never seen someone doing her best like this. The syllabus was great, the slides, the lectures, the movies; just everything. I'm trying to be objective here, but I really enjoyed this course enormously.

Lively, engaging. One of the best courses I ever had.

Just great.

One of the best!

The best. A real introduction into scientific thinking. I can understand that some of the poorer students don't really appreciate it. But they miss a lot.

good, but sometimes maybe a bit difficutl.

Hey are you sure this was the right course? This was a good solid course. Well, apparently some people didn't get it.

GOOD.

Great course, I really liked it.

What a great Prof. One of the best classes I have had in Poli Sci.

Clear. Concise. Good.

Looking back at it: yes, I did LEARN something here. OK, quite some reading, but it was worth it.

Great course.

Loved it, very inspiring and research oriented.

intro class so a lot of readings, but great prof who devotes a lot of time and energy to teaching... does a great job in bringing in the topics she studies/researches into the class.

Just great, at first I was not really thrilled by the topic, but she really got me interested in it, it is a very lively and well-prepared course.

This course really is an eye-opener. We had to read a lot, but it was real exciting, a kind of opening up the world. She makes a huge effort to make it fun, great.

Very intelligent. She is enthusiastic and bright, but her exams are a little rough. You can study real hard and still not get the grade you deserve.

Very interesting class and good professor. Definately a requirement if you're going into poli sci. The exams aren't easy but if you do all of your reading you'll do ok. If you put some effort in you'll do really well. Definately a course to take.

So so much democracy... so little else. Still not really sure what we were "comparing." The class was entertaining at times and I enjoyed the guest lecture. Not bad overall, but if I have to do one more hypothesis test I'm going start hitting people with my coursepack.

Strange, as opposed to someone on this board, I learned much more about life under communism and in other such countries than in many other classes. Very engaged and enthusiastic prof, handles large class very well, even talks to students in lectures. Great intro to social science.

A really good and fun lecturer.

She makes a potentially boring class super fun.

Wow, was I in the same class? Smart, funny and interesting teacher, well organized lectures. Learned a lot.

The lectures themselves could be tedious and a little boring. However, looking back I did learn alot. If you want a straight forward poli sci course this is a good choice. If you want a course that goes into depth this is not what you are looking for.

a very enthusiastic, affable person whose course you should never take.

Class was alright, fairly easy, somewhat interesting. She is not very hot and she kind of teaches like an elementary school teacher, not very professional in my opinion.

You will have to do a lot of reading but it is well worth it. Dietlind is a pretty chill prof who cares about her students. If you do the readings and attend lectures you shouldn't get less than a

Nice.

Nice, very organized, with nice slides. Can be extremely boring though. The class is too basic for her to be interesting, I suppose, considering how little actually gets covered in any depth.

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Stolle is okay...you really don't have to go to lectures because she is Dr. WebCT but if you you'll be enriched. Do the readings and study well and you won't get less than a B.

Amazing professor, one of the best I have had. Engaging, caring, and extremely interesting. I don't see how anybody can complain about her, unless they just couldn't cut it in her class.

excellent lectures and awesome online help

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I dunno what that last user was thinking (???) although now that I think about it she was attractive. She puts everything on WebCT and the exams are quite fair. Sometimes talks to herself randomly for no readon though. Fun, though somewhat tedious, intro poli sci class...recommended.

I love Dietlind. Her accent is sexy and she is a bright lady. Very passionate teacher, which is more than you can say about most of the Poli Sci Dep't. I wish I got to know her better during the class. Excellent use of WebCT too. She probably reads ratemyprofessors, so if you're out there -- WELL DONE! You are HOT!

Lots of Enthusiasm. Makes the class very fun. Sometimes I wish she had taken a stance on some issues, to have more intense debates. I felt like she often just went topics on the surface, instead of going into them on a deeper level (ie Islamophobia). However, her speciality is Comp. Politics, and she's very good at it!

The class was really easy, but I learned a lot. Stolle is a great teacher, she's very passionate and has some fascinating personal anecdotes. She's also extremely nice, and actually approachable. Encourages debate by remaining neutral on issues. Great prof.

Great prof! I would recommend this class to anybody. However, I do agree with a previous comment; Stolle tends to just break the surface on a lot of topics without providing much detail which can be frustrating. The textbook is informative, though. Exams were on the easy side.

Shes such an amazing person and a great prof! She makes sure everyone does well and she's always there for you. Her class is fun but there's lots of reading to do and there some guest lectures which are REALLY boring and just make the class hard but besides that, great class! Learnt a lot of new things regarding poli sci researching.

She is very engaging, enthusiastic and seems to love what she's teaching. She's not only very helpful in person, but also via email. She usually responded within an hour all the time. Would recommend, and would definitely re-take a course with her.

Stolle's a great person - really caring and helpful, whether it be in person or online. She clearly wants her students to do well and she's so bubbly, it makes classes (slightly) more bearable (the content is just so, so dry). The TAs, on the other hand, aren't so great - 1 page assignments take 3 weeks to grade, feedback is vague and unhelpful.

A lot of people complained that she assigned too much work, but guess what - welcome to college! I found the class very straightforward, and if you did all the readings, came to all the lectures and didn't spent the entire time on Facebook, you wouldn't have a problem doing well. Plus it's apparent she loves her job as a teacher.

Poli 210 is feasible. What I regret was to wait until the end of the semester to seek help. But GET READY TO WORK. You'll have various chapters to read each week and be expected to know them by heart for the midterms. Plus assignments each week and quizzes. But the good thing is that she doesn't put 75% of the class grade on the final.

To summarize: The best thing about this course is that there are so many assignments that your midterm and final are not the only things that matter. The worst thing about this course is that there are so many assignments that your midterm and final are not the only things that matter. p.s very boring material but great prof.

The prof is great and caring, but the material is so boring. Wouldn't have taken this course if I knew how much assignments count. Word of advice, if you want to be able to do the assignments, be present at the conferences.

Course can be a bit boring and basic at times, but I found the tedious assignments to be quite relaxing. Proff Stole might not be the best teacher in the humanities department, but she does a good job and is clearly passionate about what she teaches. Now the second midterm was soul crushingly hard espetialy compared to the first, so be aware.

She is truly one of the nicer professors at McGill, tries to have a true interaction with the class and is very clear even though some of the material can be difficult, it can be overcome easily by working and going to class AND conferences. However, the course is divided in a way you can get an easy A or A- with reading tests and participation.

Easy relative to other poli courses. The polling she uses for attendance broke a lot. Most of the class is taught by TAs so go to them if you have any other questions: they are super helpful. Stolle is also extremely knowledgeable and experienced so even though its TAs marking all your stuff, she's great to talk to if you're genuinely interested.

Best class I've taken so far at McGill. Different from other Poli Sci classes in a good way. This class puts the "science" in political science. Loved loved loved Prof Stolle -- she knows her stuff and is great at presenting it. My only issue with the class was the amount of guest lecturers. I understand why she does it, but I wanted more of her!

Professor Stolle was one of my favourite professors at McGill. She is caring, compassionate, and loves to hear from students on interesting ideas for research projects they have. Loves what she teaches and is incredibly helpful in providing feedback. Clear grading criteria and very approachable for extra help. Easy A if you do the readings.

This is a good class for learning some skills and how to do research. The prof is very nice and really cares that students learn the material. Makes dry materials super fun. Lots of office hours, very accessible. There are many assignments and quizzes but I felt that helped me keep up the pace in this class. take it if you can.

Prof Stolle is very sweet, she gives engaging and interesting lectures and makes the content accessible. She pays close attention to feedback and she is easily accessible outside of class. I would totally recommend POLI210 as an introduction to research methods.

Prof. Stolle is passionate about the course material, and is very approachable. There are weekly quizzes and readings - helpful for accountability, but can be stressful. The coding assignments are not overly difficult but can be time-consuming (R is a great skill to have). More time should be devoted to the statistics portion. Solid course overall.

POLI 210 is difficult especially if you are new to coding. Stolle is a good prof but had a bad experience with TA's in her class that made an already difficult class much harder

Very sweet and nice professor. Cares about her students and the course she is teaching. However, co-teaching made the course less clear and harder to follow. Get ready for a lot of quizzes, assignments and heavy midterms.

Professor Stolle is a brilliant professor who is very passionate about her students learning. However lectures can be quite heavy and slides are disorganized. If you are a visual person and rely on slides for your studying this might be an issue for you!