Professor
Daniel Snelson
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Winter 2025 - Dr. Snelson is probably one of my top professors from UCLA--his lectures are always enjoyable even if attendance wasn't enforced. His lecture style and content are incredibly engaging, and Dr. Snelson is just knowledgeable in many aspects. As a non-humanities major, his classes were a breath of fresh air and pretty manageable alongside heavier course load. I took two classes with him, and I could not recommend him enough. You can truly tell that Dr. Snelson cares about his students and their inputs, where he often takes constructive advice from students to incorporate into his course design. I love the way his classes encourage creativity in academia and cultivate lively discussive atmospheres in which students feel welcomed.
Winter 2025 - Dr. Snelson is probably one of my top professors from UCLA--his lectures are always enjoyable even if attendance wasn't enforced. His lecture style and content are incredibly engaging, and Dr. Snelson is just knowledgeable in many aspects. As a non-humanities major, his classes were a breath of fresh air and pretty manageable alongside heavier course load. I took two classes with him, and I could not recommend him enough. You can truly tell that Dr. Snelson cares about his students and their inputs, where he often takes constructive advice from students to incorporate into his course design. I love the way his classes encourage creativity in academia and cultivate lively discussive atmospheres in which students feel welcomed.
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Fall 2023 - Senior coming back to drop a review on my favorite class. When I took electronic lit, ChatGPT had just launched to the public. Snelson was the first professor I had that addressed it, he changed the entire course to focus on learning about generative AI, critiquing it, understanding how it works, understanding what it means for our careers, for language and art overall. If you want to work in writing, or archiving, or an artistic field, or anything the English major sets you up for, you NEED to really take the time to understand and properly critique AI. It's a fact of the industry now, and higher education at large hasn't caught up to that yet. I personally really dislike genAI but I recommend this class to everyone because it's just extremely relevant and useful. Also, Snelson is very cool, gracious, and smart. If you like a more open-ended, creatively driven course, you'll enjoy this and find it relatively easy.
Fall 2023 - Senior coming back to drop a review on my favorite class. When I took electronic lit, ChatGPT had just launched to the public. Snelson was the first professor I had that addressed it, he changed the entire course to focus on learning about generative AI, critiquing it, understanding how it works, understanding what it means for our careers, for language and art overall. If you want to work in writing, or archiving, or an artistic field, or anything the English major sets you up for, you NEED to really take the time to understand and properly critique AI. It's a fact of the industry now, and higher education at large hasn't caught up to that yet. I personally really dislike genAI but I recommend this class to everyone because it's just extremely relevant and useful. Also, Snelson is very cool, gracious, and smart. If you like a more open-ended, creatively driven course, you'll enjoy this and find it relatively easy.
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Fall 2020 - An all-time favorite teacher, if not my favorite teacher I've had so far at UCLA. Even in a remote time, this was able to be a fun and engaging class with a sense of community. Using discord for the class, something most people might find an unexpected combination was a highlight of the class. Both the way it allowed an organization for the class and the materials, as well as allowing space for the community to build and engage constantly even after class had ended completely was an enlightening experience. For this class specifically, the projects and formats were new to me and I felt like I both learned a lot and came out of the class with excitement for using some of the ideas and platforms I used again in the future. Snelson, as a professor, is very humble and inviting of what the students want to engage with, often adjusting or planning within the first week with students for what the syllabus will contain for that quarter. The projects will vary in difficulty. One week you might have to make a single page description for a board game, and another week you might have to learn how to code with Twine (my favorite). There were a couple of group projects, which ended up being more fun than the usual hastle. Ultimately, the work is pretty manageable, you'll probably have a final that is very open to what you want to do if you're taking one of his more creative-mediums-based classes. At the end of the quarter, he sat down with us (virtually) to go over the strengths and weaknesses of the course as a class discussion. He cares about his students, a student interested, and ultimately wants everyone to enjoy themselves and do what they want to. His flexibility can be a big plus when it comes to that. I encourage anyone who is interested to take a class with him- it could end up being a highlight class for you.
Fall 2020 - An all-time favorite teacher, if not my favorite teacher I've had so far at UCLA. Even in a remote time, this was able to be a fun and engaging class with a sense of community. Using discord for the class, something most people might find an unexpected combination was a highlight of the class. Both the way it allowed an organization for the class and the materials, as well as allowing space for the community to build and engage constantly even after class had ended completely was an enlightening experience. For this class specifically, the projects and formats were new to me and I felt like I both learned a lot and came out of the class with excitement for using some of the ideas and platforms I used again in the future. Snelson, as a professor, is very humble and inviting of what the students want to engage with, often adjusting or planning within the first week with students for what the syllabus will contain for that quarter. The projects will vary in difficulty. One week you might have to make a single page description for a board game, and another week you might have to learn how to code with Twine (my favorite). There were a couple of group projects, which ended up being more fun than the usual hastle. Ultimately, the work is pretty manageable, you'll probably have a final that is very open to what you want to do if you're taking one of his more creative-mediums-based classes. At the end of the quarter, he sat down with us (virtually) to go over the strengths and weaknesses of the course as a class discussion. He cares about his students, a student interested, and ultimately wants everyone to enjoy themselves and do what they want to. His flexibility can be a big plus when it comes to that. I encourage anyone who is interested to take a class with him- it could end up being a highlight class for you.
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