tl;dr: difficulty depends on TA, fun teacher

My TA, Nathan, grades easily: he grades the papers generously and he said if you speak up once per section you are ok (I think he said you get full credit because some people in my class don’t like talking but I don’t remember).

Section participation and weekly response papers (30%): discussion seminar, attendance is required and you have to do your own section except if you go to MOGDA’s (maybe) student affairs office.

500 words, get two days to do each essay, assigned on Thursday at the end of lecture, due Saturday at 5 pm (every TA has the same deadline)

There are seven weeks of response papers and section discussions and he throws out the lowest score.

There is one midterm and a final, which are mostly several essay questions with a few true-false questions.
The final is not cumulative

Attend an International Institute event
international.ucla.edu/institute/events, check regularly, schedule 3-4 weeks ahead
Write a short paper (around 750 words)
REACH OUT TO THE ORGANIZERS FOR RSVP, IF SMALL EVENT GETS OVERWHELMED

Book, Collier’s “The Bottom Billion”, is cheap, easy to find online for free probably, other readings are posted

This class is divided into two parts. The first section covers political and economic issues central to international studies such as democratization and economic development. The second half of the course focuses on social and cultural issues with a global significance such as transnational migration and climate change.
The teacher said you don’t have to go to lecture: the lectures are recorded and the slides are posted a bit before lecture. He says people who go to lectures do better but idk.
There is a different topic every day.
The teacher is cool and really expressive. I like how he teaches with examples because this class has relatively little to memorize, at least in theory. The class gets involved in the lecture, even though many people take the class for a GE.

Literally the easiest class you will ever take. You don't have to go to lecture, the slides are posted and it's bruincasted. There are weekly response papers due every week which are 3-4 pages and due at Saturday 5 pm (they're assigned 48 hours in advance basically) that are kind of annoying but pretty easy to do. The actual content isn't hard, there's just a lot. In addition to the weekly papers there's a midterm and a final, both of which were 5 T/F and 3 essay questions which you just had to know the content by heart for; not much analysis required. There's also a paper due on any event sponsored by the international institute.

He's a good professor just kind of dry. What made this class worth it for me was my TA, Cameron Brandt, she was the coolest and super helpful, try and take her if you can.

This class was fairly easy. He gives a ton of readings throughout the week but as long as you have a general idea of what the reading was on you'll be okay. He requires you to buy one book which was like 99 cents and I'm pretty sure there was free PDF's online. Besides how much reading you have, you also have to turn in a 1-2 page response paper every week. These response paper's usually weren't too hard it just sucked because they were due every week, Sunday at 11AM. My TA was super nice and helpful so I think that helped with the class as well. Overall, the material isn't interesting at all but it is a fairly easy GE. Besides the weekly response papers, there was a midterm and a final. These tests were essay based questions but he gives you a super detailed study guide like a week before and that helped so much. As long as you study the study guide you'll get an A on the tests. He also bruincasts and uploads his slides before class, his slides are full of information!! OVERALL, if you're looking for an easy GE take this class!! The prof is super funny too and really helpful.