Professor Appel is by far the most amazing professor I have ever had. I took her IDS 1 class last quarter and learned so much, definitely use her office hours and ask questions. She's very clear and really politically active. I have nothing but good things to say about her! The midterm was an in class written essay (4 question I believe) and the final was a group project. She's AMAZINGG....it was like watching a TEDTalk every lecture

(Upon taking it, it's been renamed to Global Studies 104) Quite frankly I'm finishing up my 2nd year here and have never written one of these reviews but Prof. Appel deserves it. We started this quarter in the middle of a pandemic. Prof Appel was very accommodating (you'd be surprised how many professors weren't) and ensured that if we were consistently not turning in work her or a TA would reach out, concerned about our well-being. Content-wise, this has been my favorite class so far. She's taught me to look at culture in so many different ways with varying implications of each which I was surprised and elated at considering how much overlap there is in other GS courses. I even listened to a few lectures with my mom (who is an accountant and not at all a humanities/social science type person) who liked both what she had to say and how she said it. Starting this class during a pandemic and ending in a time of civil unrest has been interesting and of course, like always, this class was accommodating to the students and didn't prioritize grades over the lives of millions of Americans currently at stake. Even in her emails Prof. Appel provided resources for students that wanted to help the movement and was apart of the coalition of teachers that demanded that UCLA answer to why their facilities were used by LAPD to detain their own students. I'm not sure how this class looks in a completely different world setting but I can assure you that Prof. Appel is awesome.