Prof Jaurretche is an incredible teacher! While in her class, I learned a lot about the history of Los Angeles and the LA river, which was a great introduction to the city. She assigns multiple readings each week but only requires that you buy one or two books, as she posts the PDFs online. The final project is based on some part of LA's history that you connect with. Based on the topic you chose, you are grouped into teams and engage with artifacts from UCLA's historical collection to create a "visual map" of LA. I always enjoyed going to Prof Jaurretche's class and seeing her around campus. She is very welcoming in office hours and wants to help in whatever way she can!

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I absolutely loved taking this class with Professor Jaurretche. She posts all the materials to CCLE so you don't have to worry about buying anything. She always kept the students in her best interest and provided really engaging discussions about the texts we read. She grades the first two essays conference style, meaning you schedule an appointment and she grades it right in front of you. I'd say that was pretty scary, but she is a very fair grader. I would highly recommend her to anyone and would absolutely take the class again.

Professor Jaurretche is a great professor. Coming into college as a freshman and being worried about my writing skills, she made the class and the art of writing fun and easy. Definitely would recommend taking her. Selling "The Big Sleep". Txt msg me at **********. If you think I already sold it, I probably still have it, so shoot me a message.

Great professor, very nice and helpful. You have 4 papers total: 3 papers on your own (one of them a research paper) and a group paper.

She gave us a couple papers and a small group project so overall it was an easy class. She's a very nice professor and is just really interested in the topics/books she lectures about. I have always hated English classes but this was a very easy A for me.

Professor Jaurretche is one of my favorite professors ever at UCLA. She is super sweet and dedicated to making sure you understand what she teaches. Her class was on "Los Angeles" and I found it to be super interesting. She is very particular about what she wants in her writing. She wants very concise writing--if you can say it shorter, do it. She is very nit-picky on certain phrases and clichés, so take not on what those are in the first couple of classes. Overall she's a super sweet professor who makes her class super fun.

Excellent! Highly recommend. Interesting lectures, few homework assignments. Harsh grader, but gives good feedback.

Disclaimer: I only had this class for a week, so please do not choose/drop this class based on my review.

EngComp3 classes are very very flexible in terms of the theme, and the professor has complete discretion to choose how to interpret and utilize the theme of the class. Professor Jaurretche based the class on LA's physical environment and geography. It took me just a few classes to understand how geography-intensive this class was, and that was a straight red flag because I hate geography.

The readings for the class are from the mid and late 90's and delve into detailed and complex geographical descriptions. Since the response papers are supposed to build on the readings, it is impossible to get through this class unless you can tolerate geography.

Professor Jaurretche does seem extremely sweet and helpful, which I presume also means leniency in grading. However, she is often slow and sometimes dry in her lectures. ONLY take this class if you can survive intensive geography.

I was one of the few people in my discussion who genuinely enjoyed attending lecture. She's adorable and a bit eccentric and quite clearly adores teaching. Her lectures tend to be quite lacking in structure, and many of my peers had difficulty ascertaining what exactly they should be taking notes on. My advice would be to make a note of which passages she discusses, as well as paying attention to the important historical contexts or styles/literary devices/themes that she points out.

She is, for the most part, extremely approachable, considerate, and kind. If your paper is randomly chosen to be graded by her, she will be a bit harsh and leave at most two comments. However, you will have 3 short essays (4 pages!) to prove yourself, and the first one will only count 10% of your grade. I found it most helpful to hound my TA when planning my essays.

There is no midterm, and the final is graded more kindly than the essays are. Our final had (if I'm remembering correctly) 17 ID terms, and you only needed to correctly identify 15 of them, with the full title and the writer's full name. There is poetry explication, and then a final long essay in which you are given two "big ideas" and you pick one to write about.

It's definitely very helpful to keep up with the reading, but I'll admit that I fell behind on most of the longer works. Reading detailed summaries and taking really good lecture notes will carry you through just fine.

I really did enjoy this class, though ultimately the most electrifying lecture had been given by one of the TAs. Nevertheless, I would highly recommend taking 10C with Jaurretche!