she is great. best intro course you can take

Prof. Perez is extremely knowledgeable--knows her subject backwards and forwards.

She´s great and knows how to hold your attention. And this intro is the best prep you can get for upper level Po courses. I did great in my middle east and latin am cours last sem because I took this intro with her. Best choice I could have made as sophm

Great teacher. Extremely knowledgeable. I learned a lot and it is great to hear a perspective from a non-American professor.

Good class, especially if you are planning to spend a semester abroad. I did the Paris program and would have been lost if I had not taken her class. Definitely "hot" too.

Thank God for one enlightened view on world politics! Thisclass is different. Take it!

A frequent complaint I hear about Professor Perez is that she is "unclear" or "rambling." Nothing could be further from the truth. If you cannot follow her clearly established outlines for every lecture and direct, unpretentious style of speaking, then you must be **** or asleep. Plus: sO fine...

Perez knows her material very well and although she may drift off topic sometimes during lecture, she spells out very clearly main concepts and ideas. Some may see her as boring, but Perez holds my interest. For extra help, go to office hours and speak with her after class - she is a great resource.

very challenging class but she teaches it well. tends to get off topic and thus cuts a lot out of the syllabus. grade is only based on midterm and final, so listen up, she doesn't base tests on the readings, mostly on her lectures and the "financial times". consistantly 5-10 minutes late to class.

Although sometimes unorganized, she got the point across. She sometimes tried too hard to answer questions when the answer was obvious. Some students just could not grasp basic ideas, and they took a lot of our time away. She needs to learn to say no more often. But otherwise, good, nice professor.

Very stimulating class, professor, especially for an intro. She has interesting ideas, ways of looking at politics. Some students in class just kept asking dumb questions.. And definitely a hot pepper...

One of the easiest classes offered. She does tend to ramble and get way off topic, and she didn't seem to know about certain topics she was teaching, but she is still very intelligent and really nice. The Financial Times can be a pain though. She's consistently 5-10 minutes late to class.

Ultra smart and knowledgeable. Keeps class interesting. Even though readings were not too heavy, I feel like I learned a lot about Europe in this class. She means it though when she makes you read the FT. Current events are included on the tests.

Professor Perez is a great professor. She really knows her stuff, even though she deals with a huge number of countries. Even though she likes to start with questions and uses class discussion, if you follow her overheads, you'll always see where she is going. Good class if you are thinking of doing a program abroad in Europe. But exams are challen

This class was a joke. i learned practically nothing. the book is awful and lectures are either obvious and boring, or extensive and unnecessary.

Superb class!

An amazing class, one of my best at BU. You actually learn alot of interesting and applicable things and if you put in a decent effort you will do well. Fair grading and a pleasure to go to class.

Easily, the best political science class I've taken at BU!

As a PO major, Perez is definetly a great intro prof to have. As long as you do the readings and show up to class (and section) its a breeze. A very easy, but worthwhile class.

Perez is a very approachable, cordial, and informed professor. Her lectures can be a bit boring, but most of the time her content is interesting. She gives good reviews before exams in which she basically told us what essay questions will be about. I highly recommend her for both Intro to Comp Pol and European Politics.

She is a really smart and engaging teacher. Her outlines are very clear and if you go back to them, it is easy to review teh lecture material even if she sometimes does go off on tangents in response to student questions. Extremely helpful outside of class.

Very approachable, smart professor. I highly recommend this class if you are planning to do a semester in Europe. I took it after the London program and which I had taken it before. I would have been much better prepared. Reading load is average. I liked her focus on current events.

I've had her in both European Politics and Intro to CP. She is great in the Europe course, knows the subject inside out and keeps a good balance between lecturing and discussion. I highly recommend the course.

Great class. It was great prep for the London program. Perez is extremely knowledgeable and once you get to know her, you'll notice she has a great sense of humor.

Definitely a great class. Perez is super knowledgeable. Great prep for any study abroad in Europe

She is great. I've learned more in this class than in any other intro. Anywone who doesn't know how to follow her lectures is just out of it or plain ignorant.

I could not agree less with some of the comments here. Maybe it is because I am a foreign student from South East Asia and I was better able to appreciate Perez teaching style. She has been by far the most sophisticated PoliSci prof I´ve had here. She actually knows a lot about a lot of places and does not resort to easy stereotyping (beware of thi

Perez is pretty smart. I'm a bit biased because I really liked the material, but I thought her classes were interesting. The sidetracking questions people asked was pretty frustrating, although that's not all her fault. I thought it was worth taking.

I dont know how anyone can complain about this class, because honestly I had ordered the wrong book. Meaning, i did none of the readings. I got an A. She obviously knows her stuff. My recommendation: take a lap top. Its the easy solution to her disorganization since you can add things after the fact. Beyond that, the class was very interesting.

Perez is basically a horrible professor. I love Political Science but this class from the first day was so unorganized and messy and hard to explain. She frequently starts talking about something and then loses her track of thought. Don't need the textbook. To the person under me, I brought a laptop and still had trouble, so disorganized.

Perez is great. Although this class tended to get off topic, she was more concerned with us learning the material than sticking to the syllabus. The tests were fair and the lectures were pretty interesting

I really enjoyed this class. Perez is very knowlegeable and helpful and the material was very interesting. I would recommend to any PO or IR major above freshman level.

Great Comparative PO class that also covers the US. Perez is a great teacher and the class was small so there was plenty of opportunity for discussion.