PUBPOL-311S

BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Not in Fall 2026

PPS · Taught by Katzenstein, Suzanne · Last offered Fall 2023

Overview

Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that discussion is a clear strength. Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.

DepartmentPPS

Terms offeredFall

Typical enrollment15–15

Semesters of data1

4.4

Hrs / week

Responses

Enrollment

93%

Response Rate

Evaluation Scores

Overall quality

Teaching, content, and experience combined.

4.3

12345

Intellectually stimulating

Challenges students to think deeply.

4.5

12345

Instructor effectiveness

Explains concepts and facilitates learning.

4.8

12345

Difficulty

Higher means harder.

3.4

12345

Feedback Analysis

Feedback Analysislow

Analysis based on student evaluations

Based on 49 comments across 1 sections

Student Reports

How hard is the A?

A is doable but not automatic

The signal here is more do-the-work-and-you-should-be-fine than easy-A chatter. Students do not describe the A as automatic, but the evidence also does not paint grading as punishing.

Homework Load

Moderate homework load

Homework load looks moderate. The recurring signal is steady weekly work, but not a course that turns every assignment into a grind.

Lecture Load

Lighter lecture burden

Student comments describe this as more discussion-, seminar-, or workshop-driven than lecture-dependent. The lecture burden itself does not sound like the main source of friction.

Strengths

• Discussion is a clear strength; students repeatedly describe the class conversation as engaging and useful.

• Readings, films, or outside materials come up repeatedly as a real strength rather than filler.

Tradeoffs

• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.

Best fit for

Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent.

Watch out for

• Most of the signal comes from a limited sample, so be careful about over-generalizing.

• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.

Student Responses

evaluation of corporate influence on society, specific stakeholders (employees, areas they occupy, etc.), and the individual. saw these applications in case studies: textile factories, NC with smithfield farming, duke, prisons, etc. also learned how these systems were created in the first place, and the different schools of thought on how to address corporatization (friedman, and then interpretations of CSR, how the EU has addressed it through the Global Compact, etc.)