professor is amazing, genuinely cares about the content and her students. her quizzes are really easy, just go to lecture or watch them from home (cause she records them fr goated). there are three writing assignments that are pretty chill (took about 1.5 hours for each one), and they're each 15% of your grade. she dropped our final writing assignment so the grade categories got scaled appropriately. you need to go to discussion for attendance (as that is a part of your grade) so do that, but you don't really need to do all of the readings assigned. super cool content as well! amazing class would take again!

Strengths: charismatic, energetic, and interactive during lecture making the lecture times very interesting.
Weakness: Sometimes rushes towards end of lecture to ensure we finish the lesson plan, but since lecture is also recorded not much of an issue.

Super easy GE, attendence isn't required.

The greatest strength of this professor is how obvious her love and interest for the material is. It shines through in her teaching and makes me more interested in the work as well. She is well spoken and the lectures were easy to follow. This class was very interesting and I would definitely recommend it to other students.

I love this class, I love Professor H, I love classics, and if you ever need an easy GE and this is being offered with her, do yourself a favor and take it. There is a textbook for this class, but you can find it online. I don't think it's that necessary overall to get though. Initially, for the first four weeks, I always did all the assigned textbook readings but then it was taking up a lot of time and I realized I didn't really need it at all. There is a quiz assigned every week, and your lowest two quiz grades are dropped. It's open book and open note and you get more than enough time to complete all of it. The quizzes are incredibly easy; a lot of the time it'll just be content questions from lecture (so you should watch all the lectures). They're not trying to trick you, either; oftentimes, it'll really just be the most obvious answer. I think for the first couple quizzes, there were some questions that drew from the textbook, so having a pdf would be handy to ctrl+F. However, the majority of the quizzes are entirely from the lectures, so you don't even need to look at the textbook to get the questions right. Most of the time, I didn't even double-check my answers, I just answered from memory and submitted the whole thing in a minute. They're that easy. There are four writing assignments for this class, graded leniently, and we also got a deadline extension for two of them. Our last assignment (the writing final) became optional. You could take it if you wanted to improve your grade in the class, but otherwise, if you were happy with where it stood, your grade at the moment would just become your final grade. I loved how low-stress this class was and every lecture was always super interesting. It was tough waking up for a 9am, but it takes a couple hours for the podcasted lectures to be posted, and I liked it enough that I didn't want to have to wait until mid-afternoon to watch the recordings. One thing to note is that the slides themselves aren't posted, so if you don't attend lecture, you will have to watch through the entire recording to see what is written on each slide. Also, discussions are mandatory for attendance but for us, participation was just writing a short paragraph answering a discussion prompt of our choice. There were a lot of options, and some of them were really interesting, like comparing Sappho to Chappell Roan. My TA also made us do a Kahoot for fun at the start of each section and I really liked that.

A super interesting class that is also super easy. This is the dream when it comes to GEs. If you take this class and do the work you’ll get an A or A+ guaranteed, and you’ll probably enjoy it a lot too.

This was one of my favorite classics courses! Prof. H was super engaging in the lectures and had a great grading structure. No one assignment was worth too much, so she gave us a great chance of getting a high grade.

» Participation in Discussion: 20%
» Paper 1: 15% Epic & Lyric [~500-750 words]
» Paper 2: 15% Text & Object [~500-750 words]
» Paper 3: 15% Day in the Life [~500-750 words]
» Weekly Lecture and Reading Quizzes: 15%
» Take-home Final Essay: 20%

Note that we didn't have a final essay due to the TA strike. All of the assignments were manageable and she was a lenient grader. I would take her class again and any others she offers in the department!

Professor H was definitely a great professor to have in my first quarter at UCLA. All of her lectures were very clear, and it was evident that she was passionate about the material she was lecturing on, making the lectures more interesting. The workload is very manageable, with three short essays as well as weekly open-note, 5 question quizzes. She always seemed open to answering questions, and I wish I would have gone to office hours more to ask more about classics. When we went on zoom during the TA strike, she showed her adorable cat, which was definitely a highlight as well. Overall, great professor, and I highly recommend both this class and Professor H!

LOVED THIS CLASS. Prof H clearly knows what she's talking about and is super interested in the topic. I had her as my TA for my discussion for this class as well, and she was super helpful and engaging. Definitely recommend for a fun and easy GE.

Loveeeeed this class! It was podcasted so I literally only went in-person week 1 and never went back, but I watched all of the lectures. Prof H. was such a queen and is so passionate about this course material. It was very interesting to see the dynamics and complexity of Ancient Greece. The textbook was not necessary for the weekly quizzes if you take good notes on the lecture slides. Our other assignments were, like, writing about art or "day in the life of an Ancient Greek" and they were very easy. The TA strike did probably make this class a little bit easier because Prof H. was so accommodating. Take this as an easy, interesting GE.