I really loved this professor. He was the first professor we had in this course, and he made me love the cluster. Coming straight from high school into UCLA, this course and professor Cleveland really made me feel at home. He was so funny and engaging every single lecture. I would 10/10 recommend professor Cleveland. He was so awesome. Miss him.

Nice guy and a very easy class. We only had him for 5 weeks since professors switch. We had 2 asynchronous open-book quizzes and 1 midterm in-person using lockdown browser. He had test questions on his slides which I loved and made it very easy to understand what was expected to know. We also had a lab and an essay based on the lab which were very manageable as long as you go to discussion sections. We had readings but they were short - he would only assign specific important parts which was super helpful.

Class was pretty boring and felt like it was a repeat of APES but somehow easier. It basically felt like a liberal indoctrination class, he constantly tried to get us to be upset at big corporations and to sign up to protest. At one point he like shuttered to say the name Elon Musk. Probably a good choice of a class cause its an easy A+ and its good for getting science GEs out of the way. Kind of a pain to go to though.

Ok class. A little boring but the rest makes up for it. Interaction with your TA and doing work in discussion is the most important part imo.

Although I only had Professor Cleveland for 3 instead of 5 weeks I would say his classes were solid. Homework is usually reading a research paper and writing up a reflection on it. His lecture slides are clustered, it was hard taking notes during class because it was so information dense. It was hard to figure out what the main idea that we were supposed to understand, but it wasn't impossible. His quizzes were straightforward, but sometimes it felt like the questions were being nitpicky rather than asking you to know the main idea. He's friendly and tries to get to know the students by asking them for their names when you answer questions for him so that's nice, but I'd get it if everyone wasn't comfortable called out in front of the entire class. Professor Cleveland is a very passionate and knowledgable speaker in the topic, but some aspects of his classes can be more clearer. Luckily, he's friendly to talk to and ask questions. TLDR; If you miss some of the notes during lecture, the slides are on Bruinlearn and quizzes aren't too bad