This professor is one of my favorites here at UCLA! I would recommend so much if you have take comp1. You won't regret it!

One of the best english classes to take, he is super passionate about writing and makes it clear and understanding about what his objectives are. Class consisted of 3 essays, at the end you choose 2 of 3 essays you wrote before and finalize that draft and that is the final topic. You read small articles and some videos like Cardi B, Euphoria, and other shows on Netflix. Only read some parts of a small textbook and focuses on the topic of the American Dream. Journals take a while, but there are helpful towards your essays and aren't too hard to complete. Overall, pretty straightforward class and Professor Battle is extremely accommodating and understanding.

Work for this class consists of a journal that has to be submitted before each class, and then the three writing project rough drafts of which you choose two to turn into final drafts for a final writing portfolio which acts as your final. The writing projects were very reasonable in terms of the amount of time you have to do them and the grading. The journals are honestly an unnecessary amount of work, but just remember when you're writing them that they are entirely based on completion and you don't necessarily have to give a ton of thought and revision to them. Overall everything in this class was very fair and Darien is very helpful with conferencing as well as in-class peer review.

Darien is one of the best professor I have ever met. If you worry about your writing skills and are afraid of writing essays, then take this course. You will improve a lot. His conference and office hour really helps a lot and he gives useful suggestions on essays revision. Since 80% of the grade is based on completion, you can get an easy A. The only thing you need to worry about is the final portfolio which contains two long essays. But we have worked on these essays throughout the course so it will not be so hard. Highly recommend this course!!!!!