This professor is THE best professor that I have had while at UCLA. He is the first professor at UCLA that I have had that genuinely cares about his students and their mental health. His lectures are very entertaining as he loves to make jokes and are also very engaging. He talks fast, so you have to pay attention in lecture but overall the course load and material is very manageable. I also highly recommend going to his office hours. I found them to be very beneficial to my understanding of the material and enjoyed discussing different theorists with him. 10/10 recommend this course.

He definitely cares about his students. The class went through a rough start, as he gave us super hard readings, but once the class gave him feedback the class was actually really doable and I was able to learn a lot from it. He is also funny. If just want the A it is doable, but not easy at all. If you really just want to learn I highly recommend.

Everyone loves Guhin, and he's a really sweet person and a caring, welcoming professor. However, I have to say as far as explaining the actual subject matter, I didn't find him that helpful. The lectures were a little too focused on his ideas and thoughts about the theorists and reading, rather helping students to understand the arguments of each theorist. You could come away from a lecture knowing Guhin's ideas and passions more than with a breakdown of the theory or argument, which is bad because later you have to write a lot of papers about that argument. TAs are helpful to a point with that but it's a crapshoot whether you get a helpful TA or not. In any case be prepared to read a lot and DO NOT get behind on reading.

Honestly thought this class was easy at first, but I was wrong he has mandatory lectures twice a week that you can not miss because he gives a quiz every lecture. He missed so many classes and was so unorganized, there is also no midterm which might sound good but then there is a cumulative final that is actual hell there's so much to memorize.

Professor is really funny, makes dad jokes, the 3 quizzes are fair as long as you know the main arguments for the theorists. There are 2 papers you can basically write about any theorists from the class. Recommend!

Super cool fiat lux! Would definitely recommend if you're interested in philosophizing about education in a small(er) group setting. Not gonna lie, 20 students was still too big for me to feel comfortable participating (at least at the time), but I still had a great time listening to everyone's discussions around the readings.

The course structure was a simple reading selection each week, with Prof. Guhin leading the discussion but letting anyone chime in with their thoughts. We covered a bunch of different thinkers from Plato to modern with different philosophies about the purpose of education. It was particularly helpful for me at a time when I wasn't really understanding the colossal and increasingly capital-focused education system I found myself thrust into at UCLA and, although I still think our modern education is deeply flawed (but that's a different story), the class certainly helped with my understanding of where we are.

Of course, everyone will get something different out of it; it's a humanities course. Take this and/or as many other small classes as you can, they're some of the best educational experiences you'll have at this huge school!

Lectures are recorded (not required to attend), there are 3 quizzes throughout the quarter that tests if you have read them, but if you go over the powerpoints and listen to his lecture a couple of times you should be ok. I ended up not reading the readings and still did ok on the quizzes. There are also 2 essays that you have to write on a theorist and how ChatGPT analyzed the theorist wrong. All very straightforward. There are also questionnaires that are basically free points for you to get if you do them.

Professor Guhin is very passionate about sociology and has very engaging lectures. He really cares about his student's mental health, makes jokes (be prepared for dad jokes!), and he's very approachable and kind. The study guides were a bit difficult in my opinion and sometimes during lecture, he placed more emphasis on his own thoughts about the sociologist in question. The tests were a bit tricky in my opinion, but maybe I should have taken better notes. If you take this class, take thorough notes and stay on track with the readings!

Overall, Professor Guhin is a nice person, but he is not a good lecturer. He was constantly very unorganized and the lectures felt very rushed. He was not good at explaining concepts and theories, and instead relied upon taking quotes from the readings and dissecting them. This was not an effective way for me to learn the material and I know others struggled with it as well. However, with a lot of studying and hard work, you can certainly get an A. The class is structured with weekly quizzes, no midterm, and a final exam. The quizzes were mostly easy as they are based on the lectures and readings and the questions are not meant to be hard. The final consists of multiple choice, matching, and written response. The multiple choice and matching were easy but the written response was very hard and required a lot of studying and preparation.

I loved Professor Guhin. He gave super engaging lectures and really cares about his students. I put this class off until my very last quarter at UCLA because I hate theory so much, but he was such an amazing prof that I actually enjoyed the material. This class isn't easy but I had a really good TA and Guhin broke the material down really well in class and was super approachable. I wish I had more time at UCLA just so I could take more classes from him. Class had 2 midterms (each 20 multiple choice questions, not cumulative), 2 papers (1000 words for one and 2000 words for the other), and a final with 50 multiple choice (25 of the questions were repeated from the midterms and 25 new ones) and one long essay (he gave us 6 possible prompts ahead of time and put two on the final and we picked one). I would definitely recommend him he's the GOAT