the sweetest prof I ever had. Don't listen to anyone that says you can't understand him literally just sit closer and you're chillin. He's so cool and pls engage and talk to him people tend to pack up early but if you take this class PLS BE NICE TO HIM and protect him at all costs 🙏. Easy class and its comprised of 2 multiple choice quizzes and an essay. Pretty straightforward and the topics are kind of common sense.

Very nice professor. Overall class is not hard. The lecture slides are directly from the textbook readings so lectures can get boring at times and the professor is sometimes hard to hear. The class consisted of 2 multiple choice exams and an essay which were not very difficult. Would recommend this class as a GE!

Very nice professor. He clearly wants us all to do well and makes it very clear how we should study for the exams, he even sends out a list of terms to focus on. If you understand the concepts in lecture and can apply them to real world scenarios you should do well in the class.

The professor seems very sweet and approachable. I recommend sitting closer to hear him better because if you're far away, it might be hard to understand. If you keep up with the readings, you should be fine. I never really went to lectures or read and still managed a C +. So, if you do the readings regularly, you should get a high grade easily. My TA was Kelsey and she was nice and understanding, I recommend her !

I took this as a GE and it is a pretty easy as long as you stayed on top of the lecture slides readings. I personally just did the slides before class and the readings in my free time. He quotes from the textbook a lot but I feel like reading the textbook gave me more context and examples for the concepts. Overall the concepts were pretty easy and I think that as long as you put in the work you will be good. The study guides given were useful and were things that were on the test. I got an A in the class but lowk I hate that for the essay, the prompt is super broad. Your TA is the one grading it so I would personally just go to office hours to ask if your structure and idea is good. I don't think that going to lectures were useful at all and only went bc it was "mandatory."

This man is so sweet and lowkey so funny sometimes. You can get away with reading from the textbook but he is really interesting to talk to after class. The exams were easy but I didn't put in as much time as I should have, so they were more difficult for me. Just read the book and you'll be fine. There was barely any homework-- just discussions and maybe some quizzes. There were just 2 exams and an essay, but all very doable. Would definitely recommend him

Overall an easy GE. Not a heavy workload, but you definitely need to be well prepared for the exams because even though they are multiple-choice, the answers are very similar and it is hard to tell sometimes.

Super easy class with two multiple choice tests and one short essay. Attending lecture is basically pointless since he teaches straight from the book. I just read the chapters and that's all I needed to do well on the tests.

Nothing grand, though the class might be fun for anyone interested in sociology. The assignments were just weekly 1-page reflections on the assigned reading for the week - the reflections were graded, though I'm not 100% sure what the criteria was (the averages pretty much stabilized 90-95 by week 3). The readings were, for the most part, research papers related to the topic covered that week in SOCIOL 1. In terms of the actual class period, the professor would usually give a 30-minute talk related to the reading, then ask the class to discuss/give opinions on it. (There usually weren't many.) Notably, this class doesn't really feed back into SOCIOL 1 - it won't give you an advantage there, for instance. That being said, I thought the readings were pretty interesting - they were generally a mix of major past studies and a few of the professor's own papers, which I thought was cool.

This class is an honors seminar that's meant to be taken in conjunction with Sociology 1. The seminar only meets once a week for 50 minutes, so it's not that much of a commitment, but there was some difficulty to understanding the research articles we were supposed to read and discuss every week (the main component of the class). It was also rather hard to come up with insightful commentary to put in the one-page weekly memos, but with time one gets better at it. On the bright side, you're only required to write 6 the entire quarter so there are three weeks where you can take a break. Villarreal was good at starting conversations, but the weekly discussions were more of us shelling out our opinions one at a time to him than a discussion between peers. Overall, a valuable seminar that lets you dive a bit deeper into Sociology 1 content and gives you a good outlet to get to know the professor in a smaller setting!