The professor is female like the other comment said. The class was pretty easy for me. I barely used the textbook and only then for practice problems. The homeworks are short. There are quizzes, two midterms, and a final that were pretty straightforward. There were only a few difficult problems. Overall, the online lectures were pretty dry and boring but the professor does answer questions well.

I took her for both MATH 33A and 33B and I'd sum up her class as this:

- if you wanna get an easy A and don't mind a bit of self-studying, take her. her homework and quizzes are literally textbook questions, and you can honestly double check answers with an online linear algebra calculator. I completed most homeworks in <1 hour.

- if you actually want to learn linear algebra, don't take her. there's literally 0 benefit of attending class. she sucks at answering questions, just writes down a bunch of irrelevant theorems during class, and doesn't really explain much of how to answer textbook questions. she posts notes (from a different professor) on her class website, just go over that and you'll be good to go.

That being said, as someone who isn't a hardcore CS or engineering major, this class was definitely more difficult than expected simply because the only math classes I had taken before were the LS 30 series and AP Calc from high school... so while the other reviews say this class is crazy easy, it's only crazy easy if you have a solid math background, beware! Still doable though as long as you put in some effort!

Honestly, I only attended a few of her lectures before realizing I could just teach myself from the lecture notes. I found the lectures to be fine, but the notes just made it a lot easier to teach myself and work the examples. There were homeworks and weekly quizzes that were pretty short and pretty easy. 24 hour exams which were also pretty easy, except for the final which was considerably more difficult than the rest but not too bad. I highly recommend her, the workload was light and I still feel like I learned the material decently well.

This class is very well organized and the notes Professor Wang provides are a super helpful outline of all the material basically explaining every possible case with any given problem. This class is very straight forward and it was very clear what was expected from students. Professor Wang was very knowledgable about material and definitely made it easy to succeed in the class.

33B with Prof Wang is definitely an extremely easy class, but you really don't learn anything. She doesn't give any intuition whatsoever, but rather puts a bunch of information on the table for you to jot down.

Its more helpful to just read the textbook and treat this class as an asynchronous one

She is a g when it comes to her midterm and final. Workload is extremely light with weekly homework consisting of a few questions a a quiz every 2/3 weeks (3 quizzes in total). If you're genuinely looking to learn math, take someone else as she does not go over certain topics (ex. Unforced Harmonic Motion, Trace Determinant Plane, Nonlinear Equations, etc.), but if you want an easy A, you're in luck.

Abysmal professor (worst I've had in my entire time at UCLA) - like the other reviews state, she's extremely disengaging in class, hard to understand, and puts little to no effort to help confused students. When people would ask questions at review sessions, she would just tell them to rewatch lectures, which were incoherent snoozefests. I attended none after week 4 and only reviewed the printed notes online, which she didn't even write - I would recommend people just look through those.

That being said, this class is extremely straightforward. You are told exactly what topics will be present on exams, and you only have to really do well on four homework assignments and two quizzes all quarter since the rest are dropped. You can easily get 100s on everything with very little effort.

GOAT

If you look at Prof. Wang's reviews for 33B - yeah, it's pretty much the same for 33A.

In terms of learning linear algebra, I personally stopped attending the lectures after the second week in favor of just self-studying from the textbook - I found the lectures somewhat slow and unengaging, and the professor does have a fairly strong accent that made her at times somewhat hard to understand (whether the lectures got better as the quarter progressed, I couldn't say). Lectures were all recorded.

In terms of actual coursework, this class is very easy. You can basically just go off of the reviews for Wang's 33B.