This was the best intro survey course I've ever taken at UCLA. Professor Alim is clearly dedicated to his students' success. He explains concepts clearly, introduces multimedia content into lecture, and provides review guides for each and every exam. His office hours are extremely helpful, and the TAs also review lecture in section so be sure to attend if you are confused. The weekly readings are often dense.

For the class breakdown: Section attendance is 20%, there are 2 short papers worth 10% each, and each exam is worth 30% (midterm and final). Professor Alim refers to his exams as "celebrations of knowledge" and does his best to alleviate any stress over these exams. Exams are multiple choice and straightforward so a brief review of lecture will review if you've attended every class. If I were looking for an interesting GE to take, I'd choose this one!

This class is a 100% take again! This was my favorite class this quarter. I will say there was a lot of reading involved this quarter so if you don't like to read... lols. But Alim's slides were very helpful and got the overall concepts of the reading. He goes pretty fast during lecture so make sure to have your phone out ready to take pictures. The weekly homework was simple as well, just a summary of the week's reading. The TA Erick, Matus was hands down the best TA! He seems to really care about everyone passing with an A and is so laid back. His discussions were nice to sit through especially when he played videos relating to the concepts we were learning. The midterm and final were take home also! Honestly if you just do the readings and go to lecture this class is an EASY A! 1000% recommend!!

TAKE THIS CLASS! Super interesting and easy GE. Professor Alim is awesome! He is super engaging and clearly wants his students to do well. The course is broken down into attendance to the discussions, weekly discussion posts, 2 short papers, a midterm, and a final. Attendance to the discussions is super easy and free points that make up 10% of your grade. All you have to do is go! My TA was Brienna Johnson-Morris and she was amazing. The weekly discussion posts are also super easy and make up another 10% of your grade. They are called 3-2-1s and only take like 15 minutes but you might have to do some of the reading to complete them. The two short papers each make up 10% of your grade, so 20% in total. I would say they are the "hardest" part of this class but really not challenging at all. You are given very clear prompts and only have to write 2 pages, plus they are graded very easy (at least my TA did). Lastly, the midterm and final each make up 30% of your grade so 60% in total. They are online, multiple choice, and super easy as long as you attend lecture. Also, the final is not cumulative, just based on the content learned since the midterm. Overall, this class is very easy to succeed in as long as you just show up to lecture and discussion because Alim does not post his slides or record his lectures. Professor Alim will tell you the EXACT topics on the midterm and final at the lectures right before them. As long as you attend lectures and take notes, you really don't need to do any of the readings because Professor Alim does a great job summarizing them. I never did the readings and got 100% on both the midterm and final. Seriously take this class if you are looking for an easy GE that is also really interesting.

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The class is pretty easy. There's 2 "Celebrations of Knowledge" which in every other class are usually called a midterm and final exam. They were multiple choice. Also, 2 papers which are 1-2 pages long and that INCLUDES the references. Finally, attendance in section and participation in section (both are 10% of your grade). Some TAs make you turn in 321s (3 main points, 2 questions, 1 criticism or comment about the readings) every week but my TA just had us talk about them in section during breakout rooms and then tell her what we talked about.

Outside of that, there's is LOTS of reading. Expect around 100 pages a week. There's THREE required books but even then there is also PDFs uploaded to read as well. Yes, they are necessary to pass the class because you have to participate in section and the celebrations test you on specific terms and ideas in the readings. It's definitely doable though so don't get too discouraged. If you classes for a given quarter are reading heavy then maybe put this class off until later or put some other class off until later if you can.

Alim himself is a GREAT teacher and very knowledgeable. A lot of the readings were written by himself and are his OWN research. The Raciolinguistics and Articulate While Black required texts are written or compiled by him and some others.

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Really easy class, prof was super chill, interesting readings.

Took this class fall quarter of my freshman year and it exceeded my expectations! The course content was super interesting and Natalie was a great TA and I really enjoyed the discussion sections and she helped us prepare for the exams and papers.

The assignments consisted of: weekly readings and weekly reading responses, two exams (midterm and final), and two papers. The TAs and professors give you all the information you need to do good on the exams so if you pay attention you'll be fine. Do keep up with the reading because it is a lot at first and easy to fall behind. The readings seem overwhelming at first but you get used to it and the content is quite interesting.

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The class itself was pretty easy. While the readings are mandatory for discussion, you can often just skim them quickly for some key concepts to write down about in 3-2-1 assignments (3 concepts, 2 questions, 1 critique). The essays were fairly easy, being only 1-2 pages single spaced INCLUDING at least 4 references (you can start on them the same day they're due and still get an A or A+). Alim himself is interesting, keeping his lectures funny-ish with little jokes sometimes and his emails are very nice. The only thing that I didn't like was that the lecture slides were basically large bullet points with multiple sentences or a quote straight from a reading. Still, you can get an A on exams ("Celebrations") by just carefully studying the lecture slides and examples he says.

I found the discussions to be the most important portion in the class, as the lectures can be very long and often can be summarized in a few sentences. Definitely know specific names of certain cases and documentation to do well. However, keeping up with the class overall is not difficult and you should do fine as long as you show up to discussion each week.

TLDR: I recommend this class if you're looking for an easy social analysis GE (or just looking for an interesting class to take)

Class structure:
• Asynchronous lectures (recorded zoom lectures from like 2020) -- bulk of material, helpful in understanding the weekly zoom meetings
• Weekly readings -- imo very long, but not necessary if you watch the lectures
• Weekly zoom meetings/OHs -- should attend because Prof Alim basically gives out the answers to the exams and papers; even though he records them, he doesn't post them for some reason
• In-person discussions -- mandatory

Exams (60%):
• 1 Midterm + 1 Final (called them "celebrations of knowledge"), 30% each
• Super, super easy MCQ exams. Pay attention to his lectures, and you will be completely fine getting at least a low A on each exam. I did the readings in the beginning, but tbh you can get away with not doing them at all.

Discussion (20%):
• Participation (10%), Attendance (10%)
• Please attend your discussions because they are mandatory lol. However, they're not too bad, if not a little boring because it's basically content review. Prof Alim goes over the material already in zoom + recorded lectures
• Participation includes appearing as if you're paying attention to class, as well as weekly 1-2-3 assignments, which are basically reflection on the readings. You can probably just skim each of them and write whatever as long as it's somewhat relevant and coherent.

Papers (20%):
• 2 papers, 10% each
• 1-2 pages long, single-spaced, including citations
• It honestly depends on your TA, but all of the readings and Alim guide you toward an answer, and you can kinda ramble as long as you have a point. This is probably the hardest part of the course, but they're honestly not too bad either.
• It's worth noting that because of the TA strike this quarter, the second paper was optional, so you got extra credit if you wrote it. Normally, he doesn't give extra credit.

Very easy class. The readings will look intimidating at first (something like 100 pages a week) but they aren't actually necessary to do well on the tests, that said they can be pretty interesting. The midterm and final are very easy because he reviews all the material on them if you just go to the sessions you will do fine, the essays are also graded generously (usually). Overall it was a very interesting class, it goes over some interesting social issues and ideas. A good choice for a GE.
2 - 2 page single space essays, bibliography included in page count
2 - 2 multiple choice midterm/ finals 25 question each