Does not explain enough of the concepts. Does not answer questions well. Tests are not totally having to do with classwork. Would not recommend unless you want a low grade.

Has a Phd and is very sure of himself but does not teach well or go over enough for what will be on the test. Never available for office hours due to travelling every week. Do not take his course if you want to do well unless you go through a lot of crap

This guy knows a lot but is not good at expressing it. Does not review at all for test and just tells you to read 5 or 6 different long, boring books to know whats on it. Avoid if you want a high grade!

isnt the hardest class if you are really focused doing your work, but kraso thinks he is man and knows it all. he really isnt the man at all. His lectures are also extrmeley boring

Krasno is very much caught up in himself. I would not recommend taking this class, except if you are a plsc major. Then I might be worth going through his pain staking lectures.

I respect this teacher's passion for his field but he self-mumbles what he says. He is boring. I regret having him as a teacher, especially for this course, which I thought would be very enjoyable. The subject matter is enlightening but Krasno is not very effective in transferring his knowledge to his students. I would have chosen another class.

Has a book that you can buy on Amazon.com for 2 cents.

Terrible teacher. Made sarcastic remarks on papers which revealed his true personality. He is a jerk and it is not worth taking his class. Tests are not fair and refers to material that was not covered.

Very arrogant professor who loves to hear himself talk. Knowledgeable professor but his bloated ego can get in the way of teaching. He can be a tough grader and has very little sympathy for his students.

Learned more each week from my TA in discussion than in a month of lectures. He's unorganized and spends a ton of time not teaching the curriculum during class. Definitely read the textbook cause it's interesting actually informative, and hope that you get lucky with an intelligent and engaging TA

Krasno definitely knows his stuff but he is not suited for an intro level PLSC course. His lectures were not very organized, and the lectures themselves did not add anything to the class as he read all off the slides and the slides were always posted. He's very opinionated and though current events are interesting he shouldn't spend 40 min on them.

He is wayyyyy too sure of himself. Went to his office hour and he kept his feet on his desk the entire time. .Didn't have his door open for office hour (I had to knock)....... Your grade depends on your TA. Expect his liberal beliefs to come to light as the semester progresses.

I thought this would be an easy A, but I was wrong. The material itself is not extremely difficult, but Krasno can be boring when teaching the subject. Do the readings and come prepared with questions for discussion sessions.

Krasno has the worst superiority complex I have come across. He puts his own opinion on the board and uses himself as a reference for why he believes something to be true. He is so full of himself it actually hurts. Avoid this class with this professor it should be easy and interesting and it was horrible

Mediocre professor at best. Extremely boring lectures. Absolutely no structure to the class, didn't give his grading scheme on the syllabus, and offers no incentive to read the assigned readings, as they're not included on tests. Would not recommend for PLSC 340, however I've heard he's ,such better at PLSC 323.

MC was harder on tests than short answer bc the latter is graded by TAs. Textbook only useful for discussion quizzes, tests almost entirely on lectures. You don't need to read the books he assigns. Boring lecturer especially at 8:30am but not a massively hard class. 3 essays all graded by TAs. Heard better things about him at the upper level.

Probably the most monotone and boring professor I've had so far. Lectures are absolutely useless because he posts all his slides online and reads directly from them, adding no new information. He talks about current events for the first 20 minutes of class, but shoves his opinion up your ass. Biweekly quizzes in discussion. 3 essays. 2 exams.

Krasno habitually gave me Bs whether I tried a little or a lot. I felt like his assignments didn't have clear instructions. He seems like a nice guy and is kinda funny but not a great teacher.

Krasno is a terrible lecturer, his slide notes are half old content and current events (which aren't on the tests) and the other half is actually new content. Final is based on lecture notes instead of textbook, weekly pop quizzes are the only reason to actually read. No review sheet or guidelines for final or midterm. Don't take unless you need.

Lectures are boring and not mandatory. Your essay/quiz/participation grades makes up 60% of your grade and those are all graded by TA's. If you get to pick your discussion pick Brendan as your discussion TA he is the easiest grader and nicest TA by far.

Krasno seems like a nice guy, but he was disorganized. He would forget his notes, or spend 20 minutes of class trying to get the projector to work. He incorporates current events into the beginning of his lectures (for all his classes) which takes up up to half of class time. I find that he reads off of slides otherwise. Takes AGES to grade stuff.

only take a class with krasno is you have to. he co-teaches this class with robinson, who is essentially his lap dog that is told to be quiet unless krasno doesn't feel like teaching. Krasno spends the entire lecture time on current events, never grades on-time, and CONSTANTLY brags about how he is a "top US" campaign finance educator. avoid avoid

Did not really like this class. You can tell he thinks he's hot stuff and he's very opinionated which can hurt your essay grades if you disagree with him. I found that lectures were honestly not that helpful and boring, but he did give quizzes during them to encourage showing up. Not a hard class, but the essays can hurt you. Otherwise pretty fair

Includes a lot of reading that each weekly discussion has a quiz on. The quiz questions are primarily and ONLY reading-based, so be prepared to read the textbook/readings. Discussion attendance is mandatory and you lose half the attendance grade if you do not talk. TA's were told to grade very hard on papers. Overall, Subpar professor.

Takes forever to grade. Midterm/final are worth over half of the grade, but he gives a very restricting time limit for tests. (Much less than other classes, with more questions.) Did not record online lectures, and did not include several topics on distributed material, so if you missed a class you had no idea what was discussed that day. Pass.

He does not stop going on tangents, TA's run the class. I have learned nothing from going to lectures but since he occasionally quizzes us I don't want to miss. His slides are wordy and so are the readings he assigns. As a polisci major I want to avoid classes with him.

While he is a knowledgeable professor, Dr. Krasno is extremely biased in what he teaches, rambles on and on about current events, and does not give a centralized view of the course material; as previous reviews have stated the course should be renamed Jon Kranso's Opinion on American Politics. Try to avoid as a Gen-Ed if you are weak with poli sci.

Krasno is actually a interesting dude. The problem is that it seems like he's only a professor because he couldn't get a job in politics. Doesn't show up to class and you will wait until the end of the year to get any grades back. There is so little organization in this class that I'd be embarrassed to teach it as Krasno does.

While Krasno is a really cool, funny guy as a person, he falls severely short as a professor. He's obviously an expert in his field but his lectures are winding, hard to pay attention to, and heavily opinion-based. It's impossible to study for his exams because he releases absolutely no review content besides his convoluted slides.

Should be called "1 hour and 30 minutes of Kasno's Opinion on American Politics". His lectures are incredibly boring and lengthy. Along with his his class was from 8:30 - 9:50 and was late to class so many times he decided to "unofficially" start class at 8:55. Overall he grades decently easy but its all essay.

Krasno is a very opinionated man, and it feels like you need to write according to his views to get a full grade. The essays are brutal, there are 5 topics posted throughout the year and you need to write only 3 of them. The TA I had was Furkan, he didn't know anything about American politics it was fun... not helpful.

I would be embarrassed to run a class like this guy. The midterm is not based off factual information rather his perception of such. Even the quizzes are weird, your TA could give you like easy questions or really hard ones. You could write the essays without any knowledge of the class. Just a weird class.

eh. If Hadis hadn't been my TA, I think I would've been screwed. Hadis did a great job in thoroughly explaining class concepts and keeping us engaged. Krasno, on the other hand, would spend the entire class talking about his own opinions. Even the tests are based off of his perception of politics. It was fairly easy, just boring.

This class is not that hard if you just try to understand his slides. Something I did was run his slides through AI, asking it just to simplify his notes as at times they are tricky to understand and connect. Assignments/Exams are not hard, just study the slides really. I went to most classes, but honestly only like 30-40 kids went (boring & early)

I've had Krasno for a couple of years now, three to be clear. Intro courses he's fine but further in he's just pretty hard to work with. He doesn't answer emails (has 1k+ when screen flashed on the whiteboard) and just talks about himself and not much relating to the course. Overall the TA's are your best friend, be aware bc he can tank your GPA.

In my opinion, Prof. Krasno is alright. Lecture slides are convoluted and there's minimal direction for studying for exams as there isn't much to draw back on, just slides, tb/readings. Your only hope into doing well in this class is the survey memos/pretesting, straightforward but you have to know how to use excel to analyze the results.

No one ever showed up to his lectures and he grades everything about 2 months late. No idea where I stand in this class. Avoid.

Krasno really just doesn't care about his students. His lectures are impersonal, he doesn't ever grade anything, he never responds to emails, and his feedback is past constructive criticism, it's just mean. His classes are pretty easy and tests are common sense, but he's just boring and uninterested. I would avoid if you can

The teacher was pretty funny and laid-back, although the class was structured oddly. Overall, the course had low attendance per lecture, with the majority of time spent on him sharing his opinions on the topic while conversing with students. It felt more like attending office hours than listening to lectures. I found myself relying on my T.A.

Weird guy. Loves talking about the fact he wrote a book once. Lectures are incoherent and confusing to follow. Yaps the whole lecture and gets sidetracked a lot, rather than ACTUALLY teaching. He gives no rubric or framework for assignments, then grades harshly, as if he weren't the one who gave no instructions.

He curses at students regularly and is very condescending when lecturing. I also have no idea where I stand in the class because he does not post grades and you kind of have to figure out how to do assignments yourself. It's sad because it is an interesting class but he just ruined the experience for me.