Professor Anjum is interesting. She has a very cool background and speaks like 7 languages. I enjoyed watching her lectures, but sometimes I felt that we didn't go into enough detail on the material for me to fully grasp, but I had a positive experience. She also had us do a project that included a presentation and a proposal. I feel that helped me understand international and development a lot more. Both our exams were written and we had a couple of days to a week to work on them.

Writing this years later but I remember a lot of students loved the professor . . . I was not one of those people. Not to be over the top, but I felt like this class was SUPER dumbed down. I finished each test in under ten minutes and I also felt like the lectures were very basic. Also, Professor Anjum is definitely was the type of professor who is young so tries to connect with students and joke along with them, this didn't sit well with me, I felt like a high schooler. The same quarter I took Global Studies 1 with Professor Potts and learned way way more.

Professor Anjum is an amazing professor who truly cares about her students and their success. The class material is really interesting and the workload isn't bad at all. The final project was sort of lengthy but helps you understand more about international development. Take her if you can, you won't regret it!

Erica is a great professor! Her lectures were very engaging, discussions were helpful, and even though there were a lot of readings, it was all very interesting and useful for the project/paper/presentation. The midterm and final were pretty easy, just going through key concepts and the study guide is enough. The TA's were awesome and they all knew what they were talking about which made it really easy to ask for help or to clarify anything. We had around 5 guest lecturers and their work was very impressive and there were even opportunities to speak to them after to class to discuss working with them. The project and paper was probably the most difficult part of this class and it wasn't even that hard as long as you did everything on time. Highly recommend this class!

Wow! Talk about a garbage course with a totally inexperienced, unknowledgeable "professor." Erica Anjum, as she boringly goes through her lecture material, will spout sweeping generalizations and utter nonsense that can be easily disproven with a 5 minute rebuttal of facts. Yes, if you are one of those wide-eyed, immature college students that agrees with everything a lecturer spews, then you'll probably think this is a great course. Otherwise, if you have any REAL and authentic life experience outside the ivory walls of UCLA, you will quickly realize this course is rife with simplistic contrivances, totally circular logic, and utter BS fabrications based on biased opinions.
This so-called professor is a complete embarrassment to the Socratic method-- she is teaching what she wants you to think, not HOW to think independently to question the things being told and to look beyond the obvious. Shameful.

*taken online during Covid* Erica Anjum is probably the worst professor I have ever had since I was in kindergarten. This class is so boring and soul sucking...her lectures are meaningless and meandering with slides that have 0 relevance. You would think this class is interesting but nope. If you have any interest in humanitarian work or the field of development stay away because this will kill your desire to do anything remotely similar to this in the future. She's a super nice person but just very misguided as a professor. If you take this class be sure to research your TA if possible, the last thing you want is a lecture that has no relevance to the assignments and a TA that grades super hard. Basically this becomes the TA's class as Anjum really has no direction. There is one quarter long group project based on sustainable development goals and a midterm...thats about it.

I took this class as a GE and hoped that it would be that one "interesting and fun" class in between all of my major courses. I really wanted to like this class, I really did. A lot of the things we talked or read about were very interesting, the class was pretty easy in terms of workload, and Professor Anjum is really nice, so it seemed to have everything going for it. However, going and attending lectures for this class was a chore. I don't think I went to a single lecture and came out understanding anything she had just said. The way she structured her lectures was boring and confusing. She would never really discuss any of the readings, glossed over things that seemed important, and talk for hours about other things that had really had no connection to the topic we were covering. This class could have been so interesting and its a shame lecture was pretty much useless.

This class could have been so interesting and relevant to today's issues... instead, we learned about mercantilism in the 16th century and protests from a year ago.

The class was really easy but at the same the worst class ever. I had a huge interest in the IDS field, but this class destroyed my imagination as the lectures were really useless, unorganized and boring. I also had a feeling she wasn't knowledgable in the class materials, could definitely feel that she just started her teaching career. Take the class if it's offered, but avoid taking her class. But A is super easy if that's what you want (but you won't feel you learned something).

Okay so I actually took this class with Professor Hannah Appel but she wasn't on here so I'll just put this here!

I LOVED this class. This was my first experience with an international development studies class as an IDS major, and it helped me decide that this is what I want to major in. We learned all about systems of global injustice and why the world is the way it is right now. It was really interesting!!

Also, the workload was super chill. We had one 200-300 ish page book as our textbook, The Divide by Jason Hickel, and it was a pretty easy read! We also had occasional other readings, but it was mainly the one book. No tests, just a four question short answer midterm, a group presentation project, and a final reflection!

My TA was Arjun Krishna and they were super nice and helpful! Participation in discussion section was mandatory though! Overall amazing class, take it!!!!!

30% discussion section participation
20% midterm short answer
30% midterm project
20% final reflection paper