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Gina Konstantopoulos
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Spring 2022 - This class was pretty easy but your grade depends a lot on how your TA grades your midterm/final/quizzes. The midterm was timed essays and the final was a final paper. Discussion is based on attendance and there were a couple quizzes. The quizzes were very specific and pretty much memorization of important people and key terms. Not the easiest GE but very manageable.
Spring 2022 - This class was pretty easy but your grade depends a lot on how your TA grades your midterm/final/quizzes. The midterm was timed essays and the final was a final paper. Discussion is based on attendance and there were a couple quizzes. The quizzes were very specific and pretty much memorization of important people and key terms. Not the easiest GE but very manageable.
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Winter 2024 - Professor Konstantopoulos is extremely funny and nice. The lectures are super engaging, and the materials are very interesting (you get to learn how to curse your enemies! Yay!). The tests were easy, though they were more short-answers-based. Overall professor Konstantopoulos is just amazing, and I recommend everyone to take this course.
Winter 2024 - Professor Konstantopoulos is extremely funny and nice. The lectures are super engaging, and the materials are very interesting (you get to learn how to curse your enemies! Yay!). The tests were easy, though they were more short-answers-based. Overall professor Konstantopoulos is just amazing, and I recommend everyone to take this course.
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Fall 2025 - This class is a pretty easy A/A+ GE. This was my first quarter at UCLA but many people in the class were actually upperclassmen so it was cool to have such a wide variety of students taking the class. Professor Konstantopoulos is definitely knowledgeable and a funny lecturer, though it was difficult to know what to take notes on at times since she goes on many side tangents about hollywood sucking or egypt getting too much coverage in middle school history class. One important thing to know: YOU SHOULD TO GO TO LECTURE. The slides do not contain that much information often so you need Professor's commentary, which is not recorded. Also, there are occasional participation checks at the end of class, which count towards extra credit after the first or second one. My TA was Caitlin who is super awesome and nice. This was her first time TAing this class and I think she was better than most of the other TAs. She really wanted us to succeed, but with that also came higher expectations and she graded our papers most harshly out of all TAs. Still, she graded our Midterm and Final with wanting us to get an A/A+ in mind so I highly recommend Caitlin as your TA. Overall, a good class, not necessarily a must-take but the content is interesting and it's not too difficult.
Fall 2025 - This class is a pretty easy A/A+ GE. This was my first quarter at UCLA but many people in the class were actually upperclassmen so it was cool to have such a wide variety of students taking the class. Professor Konstantopoulos is definitely knowledgeable and a funny lecturer, though it was difficult to know what to take notes on at times since she goes on many side tangents about hollywood sucking or egypt getting too much coverage in middle school history class. One important thing to know: YOU SHOULD TO GO TO LECTURE. The slides do not contain that much information often so you need Professor's commentary, which is not recorded. Also, there are occasional participation checks at the end of class, which count towards extra credit after the first or second one. My TA was Caitlin who is super awesome and nice. This was her first time TAing this class and I think she was better than most of the other TAs. She really wanted us to succeed, but with that also came higher expectations and she graded our papers most harshly out of all TAs. Still, she graded our Midterm and Final with wanting us to get an A/A+ in mind so I highly recommend Caitlin as your TA. Overall, a good class, not necessarily a must-take but the content is interesting and it's not too difficult.
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