Fact: No one likes iclicker questions. BUT they are so helpful for the final and midterm!

The readings were short and relevant. I love professor Collett!!! I was literally 0.02 away from an A- but the fact that I enjoyed the class doesn't matter highly recommended

I took this my freshman fall b/c I heard it was an easy A ge, but now, in my 3rd quarter at UCLA, it really wasn't that easy lol. I think most people were happy w/ their grades at the end of the quarter, but we had like 3 timed quizzes based on accuracy a week + extensive lecture and readings to absorb + tough midterms and final. The exams were 15+ mc, 3-5 short answer, and 1 essay question and they were doable, but definitely felt tough b/c, even though they were open notes, there was no time to look at them and there was just a lot of content being asked about in a short amount of time.
It's overall a fair class w/ really interesting lectures, but definitely not as easy as older reviews make it out to be.

Very interesting class, and I did put a lot of work in, but wanted to focus on how much I love professot collett. She is great. 11/10 class.

If you do the work with real effort and make sure to watch the videos you will get an A and maybe even a 100%. This class is very grader dependent but if you take it over the summer odds are your grader will want to be generous especially if they can tell you did the work and didn't just use chatgpt.

The workload in this class is definitely sizable some weeks but realistically it is also very manageable! Professor Collett is really the nicest and even started releasing material earlier for us to get a head start on in the week (this helps out with the workload a lot). I feel like the main reason why people may complain that the workload is on the heavier side is bc since this is an asynchronous course, "attending" (watching) lecture videos can feel like extra work when in reality, its the same thing as attending a normal lecture session (usually there are 2-3 lectures per week, each one ranging from 15-30 min, so in reality its rly short compared to a normal lecture). As long as you take advantage of this head start and spread out this work over the week, there should be no issues with an extremely heavy workload (I usually just got all the work for this class done over the weekend so I didn't have to worry about it for for the next few days).

Some of people tended to have difficulty with the midterms and final but I think the point distribution that is used was really forgiving and fair. Prof also offers rly insightful review sessions before the test and drops questions that a majority of the class got wrong afterwards. There are weekly readings/quizzes/lectures that are assigned and at times it did seem like quite a bit but truthfully the material is interesting enough that it really doesn't feel like it. The quizzes mainly test on main ideas, so copious notes aren't necessary and they're overall pretty low stakes.

Overall, I would highly recommend this class (esp if you wanna develop a better social awareness)! I know its cheesy when people say that they'll take the stuff they learn in a class with them for life, but I genuinely think that this course really changed the way I think about life/society! :)

Great class, super interesting and I found Prof Collet really engaging. I took it async, so the class was super flexible with my schedule. There's one short paper (approx. 2 pages iirc), but it's not super complicated. Exams are true/false, multiple choice, and then there's a short answer section and an essay question. Not too difficult, but definitely review the main ideas of each of the readings before starting the test, that'll really help for the short answer/essay sections. The expectations for the class and each week are clearly laid out, and so as long as you pay attention and keep on top of the work you should get at least a B no problem.