For Fall 2020, because of the COVID pandemic, Dr Roy utilized a "non-differentiated" grading format AKA all students received an A. I found this to be incredibly generous and flexible of her!

For the class itself, it's VERY heavy with readings. Be very mindful of that! Assignments were 3 short papers (500 words) and the final was essay-format of answering prompts.

Dr Roy is very knowledge, friendly, and personable. I would recommend this class if you're interested in planning history but to be very mindful of how heavy workload this course is. You've been warned!

AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING! If you have ever wanted to take a class that will give you an encompassing understanding of social movements and revolutions, TAKE THIS!

Professor Roy is an extremely passionate, intelligent, and most importantly compassionate individual. I took this class out of rec from the PUBAFF counselor, who I think was most concerned with filling the course of the new major so I was slightly caught off guard by how "radical" the course is (my TA started a section with playing a song called ANTIFA Dance). If learning about radical social movements is your interest, you'd enjoy it. However, I struggled to stay interested in heavy and wordy readings each week. I do appreciate the goal of the class but I cannot say the content was for me. There was an "A for all" policy due to the pandemic, so it helped eased the stress of everything else going on. I want to emphasize the part on the readings as I do not think I could've kept up with the class and gotten an A had it not been for the grading policy. They're not the type you can easily skim through as the exams required a deep understanding and engagement with each of them. When there's upwards of 4 academic journals at around 20 pages each per week, it will be hard if you're not interested in the radical content of the course.

This class was truly unlike any other I've taken at UCLA. I would really say this is a must-take class, and specifically with Roy. You definitely need to be prepared for this class to come from a very leftist viewpoint, without much consideration for the other side - but I feel like that is what really makes this class interesting. This class was honestly so refreshing in comparison to really just getting the same material over and over again in some other pub aff classes, it really offered a complete new perspective and was incredibly thought-provoking. I will say a lot of the readings were unnecessarily dense and very jargon-filled, but still interesting nonetheless. I learned a lot from this class, and her lectures were incredibly engaging. She is an amazing professor and even if you do not agree with all of her stances, they are important ones to understand. Be prepared to hear the words "global racial capitalism" approximately 30 times a lecture, but also to really expand and deepen your political views!!

This class was interesting but felt very one-sided with regard to the texts we were reading. The majority of the texts assigned throughout the quarter were from militantly Marxist authors; which is fine, but I think it'd be more beneficial to the student to analyze thoughts from various schools of political thought.

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