I often felt very frustrated in this class. Zeleny is clearly very smart and knowledgeable, but her lectures lack cohesion and are very difficult to follow. She would frequently start one idea and abandon it mid-sentence. The written class materials she provides are often riddled with grammatical errors. The work in this class was mostly busywork relating to image and document sourcing. This course does not require you to learn many real historical events or movements. Your final is a group project setting up a website page on Scalar with a visual essay with a collection of curated images and theme. That part was fun, but the course spent too long teaching how to use the cropping tool in Canvas instead of actual historical analysis. TL;DR -- it's an easy A but you might rip your hair out over how banal it is.

This was the easiest class I’ve ever taken. If you complete every assignment, it’s hard not to do well. Professor Zeleny genuinely wants her students to succeed. If you don’t get full points on an assignment, she allows you to redo it and will adjust your grade accordingly.

The main focus of the course is building a group and individual “page” centered around the course topic throughout the quarter. The workload is very manageable. Highly recommend!

Professor Zeleny is a wonderful addition to UCLA's history department. She is very knowledgeable with a background as a medical historian and is very passionate about the subject she teaches. Her class is heavily based on group work so having friends in the class is a plus as you select your own groups. She assigns lots of busywork that require you to carefully pay attention to her instructions, which one may argue to be confusing. She also allows you to resubmit assignments to not only obtain the highest grade on it but to also have a strong understanding of the topics. Participation does matter in her class and you will be marked off is not present in lectures. Overall her course is not difficult but requires the completion of several easy assignments weekly. I would recommend her class to any students on the verge of enrolling. Disregard the poor review for this course and enroll for an easy A, Professor Zeleny is great!

There's no actual real content for this class...you pretty much end up learning things about how to make a website and convert urls. So if you actually want a history course with content this won't be it for you. She doesn't really lecture. Workload is manageable but it's based on a group project the entire quarter so if you don't like group work that is pretty much the entire class. Super easy A though.