I never said I was enjoying it.
It's actually quite dry and uninteresting, but it's of practical use (a rarity in a department like political science), and the professor is a pretty decent guy and teaches well, in that students who pass will know the material well.
Honestly the schedule is the least of it. Skipping the reading is unlikely to work. Weekly assignments make 1/5 of the grade, and are drawn directly from the readings - and the first long-term project is also designed to force us to put into use the specific information in the first textbook. I'd be taking an easy D, at best, and that's as good as flunking for a variety of reasons. It's probably about 10 to 12 hours of outside-class work a week, which isn't so bad, except when stacked with my other classes (I'd estimate a collective 15 hours of outside-class work), my job (supposed to be 20 hours, but I have a kind professor so it usually works out closer to 12-15), the actual classes themselves (about 13 hours), an independent study I'm doing (anywhere from 4 to 20 hours historically, over the summer), and a competition dealie I've found myself signed up for with a fair bit of money riding on it (probably in the neighborhood of 10 a week until it's over in a couple months, halfway into the semester).
So that's, what, 65ish hours of work on a good week, not to mention my precious shitposting career.
Things could sure as hell be a lot worse, if for example I were working two full-time jobs to support a family or something, but as vast as my ego is I don't think I'm capable of maintaining my grades under even conditions this relatively mild.