I love Professor Momeni! The class truly feels like one big discussion. She encouraged everyone to share their opinions and was always engaging. The workload is really fair—there are no exams, but we did have four in-class pop-up concept maps based on the readings, which were graded very fairly. If you prove you did the reading, you get 100%, simple as that. We also had a group project that was worth a good chunk of our grade, and honestly, it was a fun experience. Lastly, we had an essay, and it was one of my favorite assignments at UCLA. It was a creative writing essay, and I enjoyed exploring different topics. Professor Momeni is sweet, considerate, intelligent, and just overall amazing. I highly recommend taking any class with her!

I love Professor Momeni! The class truly feels like one big discussion. She encouraged everyone to share their opinions and was always engaging. The workload is really fair—there are no exams, but we did have four in-class pop-up concept maps based on the readings, which were graded very fairly. If you prove you did the reading, you get 100%, simple as that. We also had a group project that was worth a good chunk of our grade, and honestly, it was a fun experience. Lastly, we had an essay, and it was one of my favorite assignments at UCLA. It was a creative writing essay, and I enjoyed exploring different topics. Professor Momeni is sweet, considerate, intelligent, and just overall amazing. I highly recommend taking any class with her!

I'm surprised this professor gets such high ratings. While it is clear that she is passionate about the topic and I did enjoy what I learned, she was quite all over the place with assignments and instructions. The first day she asked students how much reading they would like for the class and we agreed on 20-30 pages. For the rest of the quarter she then assigned over 50 pages of reading each week, sometimes with a long video too (1+ hour). She told us this would be an easy class, which I highly disagree with. The syllabus also wasn't posted until the class was already over (she only gave us a basic breakdown of assignments and the weight of them). The class consisted of a group final video essay (40%), a short essay (20%), 4 concept maps (20%) and attendance (20%). The concept maps were done in class at random to prove we did the readings which contributed to a lot of stress of whether we would be quizzed each day. The short essay was a new assignment so the instructions were vague and it was hard to find information for it. The video essay also came with limited instructions that she kept changing since she continued to be disappointed by people's presentations (which she would rudely voice in front of the whole class). She also does not foster a positive environment to ask questions and have discussions as she would tell students they were wrong, even when they were stating an opinion. While I did get a good grade, I am very shocked by it because she graded quite randomly often putting things in canvas as 100/0 which would make it hard to tell what you actually had in the class.

Very easy GE. Giant chunk of your grade is just participation, which means showing up to class and filling out a google form (which is not graded on your answer, just that you completed it). The same goes for discussion participation. There is weekly reading that you sometimes have to tie in during a discussion, but you can get away with just reading one of the four and using it as your example. There is a social media project which is graded fairly loosely (since the professor wants you to have a creative outlet) and then a final paper that's only 1000 words of an analysis of a music video. I would say your grade is very dependent on your TA. The professor uses slides but mostly goes on her own tangents so lectures can get a bit boring. Overall worth it for an easy A.

Easiest GE at UCLA, almost every assignment is graded off of participation/completion for an easy 100%

The content of this class is interesting but the slides were confusing and lecture didn't always connect to the readings. Participation and going to lecture is a big part of your grade. The professor often went on tangents and had obvious opinions on certain topics. She also misgendered one of her former TAs and guest lecturer (I don't recommend this class if you're trans/nb/genderqueer).

Dr Momeni clearly knows her subject very well and is incredibly passionate about what she teaches, which makes her a delightful professor. Her ability to integrate course material into absolutely any tangent that we go off with as a class is fascinating. My only qualms with Dr Momeni was that grading took forever. We went the whole quarter not knowing what grade we had in the class and by the time we had to write our final papers, worth 30% of the grade, we didn't know what we were going in with. Overall, though, it was an easy class and she seems to be a wonderful person so I would take her again.

She is the professor I won't forget—one of the best classes I have ever taken.

I loved this class! Professor Momeni is super funny and her lectures were surprisingly interesting. This class has little to no assignments, and the final paper was really fun to write because I got to choose the music video I wrote about and analyzed. My TA was AMAZING- shout out Da In Choi. She was so sweet and genuinely cared about everyone in her discussion and graded super fairly. Any time someone told her an idea for a project she'd be so supportive and facilitated really engaging discussions. As someone who struggles to participate due to social anxiety, Da In made the environment so welcoming and I found myself looking forward to the discussion section because the topics covered were so interesting. Overall 10/10, I would 100% take this again

This is a relatively easy GE! Workload is more than manageable and Professor Momeni knows what she is talking about. She makes the lectures interesting. My TA (Rosie) was also very helpful and made the sections pretty fun! The readings are manageable and not boring and you only have one essay to write. There's also a social media project that you have a lot of flexibility with.