AN N EA 10W
Jerusalem: Holy City
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 12W. Survey of religious, political, and cultural history of Jerusalem over three millennia as symbolic focus of three faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Transformation of sacred space as reflected by literary and archaeological evidence through examination of testimony of artifacts, architecture, and iconography in relation to written word. Study of creation of mythic Jerusalem through event and experience. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2016 - About the class: The class is definitely not as easy as everyone says it is! The GE component (midterm and final exams) is easy but the papers are not easy to write! The prompts are dense and they definitely take a lot of thought and research to do well in. There is a lot of information to cover and they want you to make a lot of connections in the paper. But everything is completely doable! As long as you put in time and effort and ask your TA for feedback, it is all good! The class itself is pretty interesting to me because its not really about religion but about HOW that religion sees Jerusalem as a special place. We are standing in a neutral scholar point of view to examine the religion and their religious views. I kinda struggled with this idea in the beginning but it was fine after the first 2-3 weeks! About the professor: She is clear and very lenient! She gives out study guides but she doesnt post her slides! Some times she would say something but the slide would give other information so it was kinda hectic trying to jot down information from both the slide and from what she was saying.
Spring 2016 - About the class: The class is definitely not as easy as everyone says it is! The GE component (midterm and final exams) is easy but the papers are not easy to write! The prompts are dense and they definitely take a lot of thought and research to do well in. There is a lot of information to cover and they want you to make a lot of connections in the paper. But everything is completely doable! As long as you put in time and effort and ask your TA for feedback, it is all good! The class itself is pretty interesting to me because its not really about religion but about HOW that religion sees Jerusalem as a special place. We are standing in a neutral scholar point of view to examine the religion and their religious views. I kinda struggled with this idea in the beginning but it was fine after the first 2-3 weeks! About the professor: She is clear and very lenient! She gives out study guides but she doesnt post her slides! Some times she would say something but the slide would give other information so it was kinda hectic trying to jot down information from both the slide and from what she was saying.
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Spring 2017 - So Professor Ramos just left UCLA but I feel like I still have to rate this class. I actually really liked Prof Ramos. She replied emails swiftly and she was really helpful. She also tried her best to make the content of the class interesting. Key word: tried. This class was boring af. I took it because I wanted to satisfy three requirements at once. But tbh, I don't think I should've. I played myself. The midterm and final were super easy. But I'm pretty good at memorization so that's prolly why I got good grades on them. Sadly, however, the midterm only counts for 10 percent and the final for 15. The papers count for 70 percent. 70. I get that it is a writing class, but come on. And you should know, if you think that you can use your tests to raise your grades, then you should try another class bro. Lastly, there *is* extra credit but it is literally a pretty negligible amount that will be added to your grade. I did two of them. One bumped up my midterm score up one point and the other, my final paper grade by one. The maximum difference extra cred can give is literally less than 1 percent. If you do all three, you may get like 0.6 lol.
Spring 2017 - So Professor Ramos just left UCLA but I feel like I still have to rate this class. I actually really liked Prof Ramos. She replied emails swiftly and she was really helpful. She also tried her best to make the content of the class interesting. Key word: tried. This class was boring af. I took it because I wanted to satisfy three requirements at once. But tbh, I don't think I should've. I played myself. The midterm and final were super easy. But I'm pretty good at memorization so that's prolly why I got good grades on them. Sadly, however, the midterm only counts for 10 percent and the final for 15. The papers count for 70 percent. 70. I get that it is a writing class, but come on. And you should know, if you think that you can use your tests to raise your grades, then you should try another class bro. Lastly, there *is* extra credit but it is literally a pretty negligible amount that will be added to your grade. I did two of them. One bumped up my midterm score up one point and the other, my final paper grade by one. The maximum difference extra cred can give is literally less than 1 percent. If you do all three, you may get like 0.6 lol.
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