The class is not recorded, and discussion attendance is required. The material was somewhat interesting, and the class overall was very easy and low effort. Even though class is not required, the professor reads off slides that are straight from the textbook, so you can get by not attending lecture and just reading the textbook. Would recommend as an easy GE.

I took this class asynchronously with an in-person discussion. Honestly, it was pretty easy. The class is based on a textbook and the professor's lectures basically repeated everything from the readings. I found the tests to be fairly easy by taking detailed notes on the readings and reviewing them the night before, as well as going through the TA's practice questions. There were 2 midterms and no final, and the midterms were not cumulative! The midterms themselves were pretty simple, just multiple choice asking about concepts from the readings on a somewhat basic level. The readings though were a bit long and could take me a long time to get through, but given that it was just 1 chapter a week and a few lecture videos, the workload was really low and I could knock everything out in a day. My TA was Roxanne and she was super nice! Really lenient with the discussion assignments and very approachable.

I took this class during my first quarter at UCLA and thought it was manageable and pretty slow-paced. Although the Professor is a bit quiet and the lectures can be boring (he reads right off the slides), the final and final paper are not too difficult, and he gives you help studying the material before the exams. The Professor is an older man and he truly is very passionate about Sociology, but he records his lectures and reads directly off the slides so you do not even have to go. I would definitely recommend taking this class!

This class contained extremely interesting topics that I wanted to learn more about. The midterms I found to be difficult somewhat with multiple trick questions (they are about 35 questions I believe), and there are two of them. My TA Joseph was extremely helpful to me, but the professor didn't make himself very available to us as students to ask him questions. He was extremely hard to understand throughout the course. All he did was copy and paste from the textbook and put it on white slides. It was painful to go to class every week as it was hard to understand him due to a poor microphone and mumbling and the slides had no interesting content on them to help us learn the material. If I could take another GE class I would have, but the professor is a kind man for sure, the class was just tough to get through, and my grade I feel like was reflective of how difficult it was to learn in this class as I would have a 4.0 without this class grade.