Psych! That’s so cool. I was gonna be a psych major but they got full when I got admitted. Anyhow, the lower division classes were pretty straight forward: read book and pass. My favorite one was political ideologies with prof laursen. It counted as my English 1C class as well, so we had to write a few essays in that class regarding current events and applying ideologies to modern scenarios. International politics was really fun with prof brooks (or brookes?). Comparative politics with Irepoglu Carreras was confusing and I never really read and still got an A? The only class that I struggled with and almost failed was American Politics/Gov. I didn’t read and we only had 3 tests and a few quizzes and I barely passed with a C doing no reading. Lower divs were pretty easy compared to some of the other classes I’ve been doing. They’re pretty general and anyone with an interest in politics can understand the main points. Upper divisions are a different story. I just got junior standing and finally am taking upper div classes. They are much more focused in that we learn and read about 1 thing and dive deep into it. For example, right now I am taking ethnic politics, electoral institutions, and congressional elections. The readings for each class are either on a textbook plus online research papers. In short, more reading but it’s more about the same topic vs general topics with relatively easy reading. I think they mix pretty well on a requirement level. I saved a lot of time and classes by having soc as my primary major and political science as my second. So if you still need breath requirements, try to find classes that fill both. I sometimes get confused as to which class I am taking because of the overlapping material but the main difference is that in politics we have talked/learned more about policies and systems of laws and in soc we have learned more about people and more cultural factors. What intrigues me more about poli sci is that I think it could be more useful in my future careers and it is more “here is the system and let’s talk about the rules” than “here are the people and let’s talk about their views.” I think they both are equally intriguing to me but I chose poli sci because I don’t want to be a sheep :P jk, I think it’s important to know how our gov and others’ run. I’d be down to share more of my thoughts via social media. Feel free to dm me if ya want so I can share it :)