Professor
Adina Matisoff
1 of 2
Most Helpful Review
Summer 2020 - Cons: time management is bad. This is just a recent example that I remember, but there are plenty of other times: she spent 15 minutes explaining how to complete the course evaluations during lecture, but it ended up that the evaluations were pass due so that was for naught. Basically she spends too much time over explaining and over complicating things that could be said in a much more succinct manner. She’s reluctant to discuss grades and is slightly passive aggressive when it’s brung up. There was only one grade inputted and the rest were inputted the day grades were due, so the class was left in the dark about grades. Grade breakdown: 20% discussion posts - this required a lot of elbow grease and for what. group based work 20% podcast - group based. Decently easy imo, but could vary based on the topic you’re given 10% film paper 5% final reflection paper - you gotta write about what you learned in the class and what you liked/ didn’t like in the class. 5% office hour meeting 40% final research paper - write about covid and how it impacted global regulatory systems. Prompts gonna vary per quarter I suppose. Overall this class was fine, but it was a lot of work and combined with the bad time management and late grading left a bad taste.
Summer 2020 - Cons: time management is bad. This is just a recent example that I remember, but there are plenty of other times: she spent 15 minutes explaining how to complete the course evaluations during lecture, but it ended up that the evaluations were pass due so that was for naught. Basically she spends too much time over explaining and over complicating things that could be said in a much more succinct manner. She’s reluctant to discuss grades and is slightly passive aggressive when it’s brung up. There was only one grade inputted and the rest were inputted the day grades were due, so the class was left in the dark about grades. Grade breakdown: 20% discussion posts - this required a lot of elbow grease and for what. group based work 20% podcast - group based. Decently easy imo, but could vary based on the topic you’re given 10% film paper 5% final reflection paper - you gotta write about what you learned in the class and what you liked/ didn’t like in the class. 5% office hour meeting 40% final research paper - write about covid and how it impacted global regulatory systems. Prompts gonna vary per quarter I suppose. Overall this class was fine, but it was a lot of work and combined with the bad time management and late grading left a bad taste.
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2023 - I found the course overall to be relatively easy (it was the first class I took at ucla for INTRO)as an international student transferring from a community college (English is not my first language). The weekly assignments need to write a discussion to meet the word count, I got 100/100. Her lecture doesn't need to take attendance, but the TA's discussion does(depending on who is your TA), and participation in the discussion counts for points, I believe. She will give a study guide before the exam, the key is to understand the slides she posts and connect the keywords on the word lists. I got an A in both the midterm and final. i think i will take 191 with her. She is pretty nice.
Fall 2023 - I found the course overall to be relatively easy (it was the first class I took at ucla for INTRO)as an international student transferring from a community college (English is not my first language). The weekly assignments need to write a discussion to meet the word count, I got 100/100. Her lecture doesn't need to take attendance, but the TA's discussion does(depending on who is your TA), and participation in the discussion counts for points, I believe. She will give a study guide before the exam, the key is to understand the slides she posts and connect the keywords on the word lists. I got an A in both the midterm and final. i think i will take 191 with her. She is pretty nice.
AD
AD
1 of 2
