Professor Bragin is one of the best professors I have had a chance to learn from throughout my academic career. He is extremely knowledgeable, eloquent, passionate and dedicated to his profession. He cares about his students a lot and goes out of his way to help them.

In order to succeed in this class one must simply follow his directions and ask for help when in need. It is that simple. If you work hard and show that you care about doing well in the class, you will definitely enjoy it and learn fascinating information.

I took this class during Session C of summer 2014 and I enrolled late during week two. Professor Bragin truly amazed me when he made it clear that he will help me as much as he can, as long as I do my part and work hard.

The material was intimidating at first, given that I was the only North campus student in the class, however Professor Bragin explained it to me in a way that allowed me to understand it well. I thoroughly enjoyed the class and I everything I learned and I will never forget Professor Bragin.

Class taken: Eng 10A - Intro to Complex Systems

Although, it's in the Engineering deaprtment, this class is an amazing GE for students from ALL majors! Professor Bragin is funny and intelligent. Although he does go off on tangents occasionally, I thought the lectures were very interesting. This class kind of changed my approach to science and life in general.

The online readings are not too intense and there is no textbook. If you attend class and take notes to supplement the lecture slides, you're bound to get a good grade.

I took Engr 10A this summer. Though the quizzes in the course were sort of hard, professor Bragin is a good instructor. He always respond emails quickly and help students solve problems. He has good knowledge of what he teaches, hence student could learn a lot for the complex system.

Hard Classes, saying DIRTY WORDS during the classes. Never take him as a GE course

WARNING!
These posts are not a wholistic view of everyone's opinions of the course. I wrote an honest review of this course after I had taken it last summer and it was taken down because it didn't talk about how "this is the best class" "easy A" and so on. Also, the ratings keep changing every time I visit this page, so I don’t know how truthful those are either.

So I'll write my opinion about the class once more but it will probably be taken down because Bragin will start to feel insecure about his position as a professor. I do agree that the class is intellectually stimulating, especially as a science major myself. HOWEVER, this class is by no means easy. The quizzes are hard, almost unfair compared to what he goes over in lecture. There used to be a generous curve for this class, but it is gone. Notice how this class is listed as an engineering course and not under Human Complex Systems. Believe it or not, this makes a difference. If you have ever taken a course filled with engineering students and compare it to a class with any other major, I guarantee you, there will be much more competition, and therefore, less of a curve. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN EASY A TO SATISFY A GE REQUIREMENT, THIS IS NOT THE CLASS.

Also, the listening to Bragin ramble on for two hours can get very VERY boring. If you look around the room sometime in the middle of the lecture, you’ll see half the class dozing off and the other half screwing around on their computers. While the material itself is stimulating, Bragin is not.

So, if you are looking for a fun, easy GE, look elsewhere. Don’t make the same mistake I did and suffer hours through tedious lectures, and fail unfair quizzes where half the students end up cheating on anyways.

I have never been so misguided by Bruinwalk statistics and reviews before. I took this guy summer of 2013. I'm going to start off by saying that yes, the graphs about the grade distribution in this class is pretty accurate, but that doesn't mean its easy to get an A. Ever since the poor old man's department was torn down, the class became an ENGR subject. And yes, that means you can be assured that 80 percent of the class will almost all be Chinese male engineers. That might not sound like a bad thing, but for Bragin's class it is.

Firstly, the grading is just based off of showing up to class and three online quizzes. This class, like almost all engineering classes, is based on a curve that is determined by average scores of the students. I have gone to every single one of his lectures, which by the way are INCREDIBLY BORING and studied hard for his quizzes only to find out that he puts a number of ridiculous questions along with a handful of ridiculous answers. There are questions with answers that I am certain he has not mentioned the answers to in lecture AT ALL. After each quiz when I see my score and look at the answers I got wrong, I felt like the only answers I got wrong were the ones EVERYONE must have missed and that my score was reasonable. Until... he sends an email with the average. The averages are always ridiculously high with respect to quizzes that were fairly hard.

Trust me, I look around class during lecture, and NO ONE is paying attention. Those Asian kids either 1) have an incredible ability to memorize every detail he mentions while doing their own thing on their computer, 2) study all their life and do nothing else, or 3) cheat on the online quizzes, which is possible. If you are not one who will be willing to either cheat your way to a good grade or study for hours and hours just to have a fighting chance in this class, then take my word and don't take this class.

Bottom line, this class isn't what it used to be when it was under the Human Complex Systems Course. Now its a cutthroat engineering course filled with Chinese engineers.

Very interesting material, but the professor teaches it with the level of rigorousness you would expect from a middle school class.
This is a science class at UCLA, so you would expect at least some math and quantitative analysis of the models involved. However, all we did was look at simulations without much explanation, and the professor seemed really evasive when I asked about technical details.

If you just want an easy time and an easy A, then course 10A is perfect for you. On the other hand, if you actually want to learn stuff that you can't just Google or Wiki, I recommend finding another class. The professor is nice and everything, but I'm pretty sure you didn't pay tuition to come to UCLA just so you could have a nice guy as a teacher.

I took this class in the Summer of 2012.

Going into the class, I did not know what to expect, but coming out of the class gave me a unique perspective on the world. Professor Bragin's class is definitely a unique one at UCLA and probably any other university. The class delves through almost every science and humanities disciplines and ties ideas from each to explain how patterns form in our natural world by following very simple rules of the universe. Professor Bragin really wants his students to understand the concepts behind the class and will gladly help you outside of class.

In a way, this class will relate to everything you do in life. Overall, I had a very good experience with the class and Professor Bragin, the class was very interesting and insightful, and my final grade expressed my interest in the subject.

I HIGHLY recommend this class! Take it if you can!

Taking Professor Bragin's Complex Systems class my first quarter at UCLA was a great decision! Prof Bragin organizes his class to provide a holistic and comprehensive over view of the material. This class is usually taken by CS and Engineering majors, but don't be intimidated. Even though abstract topics like Thermodynamics and Chaos theory are discussed, Bragin does a really good job at explaining the topics and making it applicable to other subject. This was definitely helpful in chemistry and physics courses.

Bragin is very helpful during office hours. He makes sure students understand topics and encourages them to explore further topics and questions.

Complex Systems is a new and upcoming theory and has the potential of revolutionizing the way we study human events.

Definitely recommend the course!

I took this course with Professor Bragin Summer of 2012. He is great. Honestly, he's super understanding and is very knowledgeable of what he teaches. His teaching style is very easy to follow and he makes sure you understanding everything even though you aren't a Engineering major. I am a Biology major (pre-med) and Professor Bragin even made time aside form class to help me map out my future. I highly recommend taking a course with him before you graduate. It was definitely a different experience from my other classes where I couldn't get comfortable/close to the teachers.