Professor should understand that participation in lectures are earned by having good lectures, rather than enforcing in-class quiz.

Ethics could probably be more interesting, but a large part is that most people don't want to be there, so the class ends up being a drag. More of a history class than anything. Lots of writing, but the bar is low.

Do yourself a favor and take a different ethics class. We had two individual papers and a group paper, which was a mess to coordinate and write. The tests were a mix of multiple choice (which was a joke, you can control+F the answers since it’s open book) and short essays. Other ethics classes just had the multiple choice. You also have to present on one of your essays in discussion. We had to stay the whole 3 hours every week in discussion even though there was nothing to do. The professor is extraordinarily dull and thinks he knows the perfect solution to every problem. This will be the most boring class you will take at UCLA and it won’t be close.