Last fall, we had the opportunity to return to the classroom asstudents. We were invited by the American Political ScienceAssociation to take a course titled Congress and the Making ofForeign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced InternationalStudies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C. The course, which was taught byprofessor Charles Stevenson, met twice weekly during September andOctober, prior to the start of APSA's Congressional FellowshipProgram in November. The course was designed to give APSACongressional Fellows and SAIS students an overview of the role thatCongress plays in the foreign policymaking process. Since both of usteach a course on Congress, much of the course was an excellentrefresher for us. But it also differed in important ways from thecourses we teach at our respective schools. It is these differencesthat deepened our understanding of Congress and the foreignpolicymaking process and provided an important introduction to ourwork as APSA fellows on Capitol Hill.