Be aware of the insane amount of work in this class!!!! She is also a tough grader!

Professor marks you "tardy" if you are late. Attendance is mandatory and graded. Essays have no rubric and are graded HARSHLY. She really only wants you to regurgitate whatever she says in class. Had to copy her notes like a transcript and then essentially throw it up on an essay to get an A on each one. She doesn't require you to participate but discretely writes your name down if you participate (bias?). Her strict grading did not teach me how to write well but merely how to write an essay that she would like (AKA an essay that just repeats exactly what she says in class). Does not even explain why she marks you off but merely says "Great!" but then marks you off 8-10 points for no apparent reason. And good luck differentiating the million festivals gone over in this class!

One of the best art history professors at UCLA! Prof. Rosenblum is super smart, helpful, and fun to to talk to even outside of the class material. She's one of the younger instructors I've had here, which might be why she was so easy to relate to, but she really understands that her students juggle with a lot of other classwork and structures her class with that in mind. All of our readings were online (no textbook), and the four one-page responses were really just to make sure you understood the material. The take-home midterm is easy if you've listened well enough in class, and the only final she gives is a 6-page research paper due before the last week. The subject itself was also super interesting and covers a wide range of locations and artistic mediums (traditional festivals, ritual art, modern painters/sculptors, and contemporary performance). I liked hearing her talk about Cuban art, which I think is her personal academic focus.