When you walk into the class you will need to know what is going to happen. You need to expect work, and a bunch of complicated government and politic stuff. You will start with a total of 15 homework points so homework is really important to do. The units can go from civil liberties to the bureaucracy (government stuff), the class itself seems hard but it isn't really at all if you know what to expect. The unit tests are hard unless you study and participate in the class. Most people said that the class is hard but they didn't know what to expect but if you know what you are going to be doing it is honestly not hard at all.