Overall, I don't think Sigmon is a bad professor, but he's not the best by any means. His lectures in person were definitely more interesting than online, as we had online lectures for the first four weeks of the quarter. He basically just reads the slides and adds a few comments here and there. The midterm consisted of writing five short essays, and for the final, we had to write six. We also had to write a term paper due three days before the final. The TAs made us take difficult quizzes every week before we were lectured on the material which created a very stressful environment. I would spend all my Sundays on these quizzes, and though I did fairly well on them, everyone was extremely stressed, and the average of the quizzes were consistently low. The quizzes were only worth 10% of the final grade, but the TAs expected so much from us. I somehow managed to snag an A, but this was probably the most stressful class I've taken at UCLA so far.

I loved this class. Professor Sigmon made it beyond doable. His study guides were just like the midterms and finals. I got a 100 on the MT but havent gotten my final grade back yet. I feel pretty confident I got within the 95-100 range again. He wanted to see us succeed and did what he needed to do to get us there. He was really quick with replying to any questions and emails and was genuinely just a happy, nice professor. I would recommend this class with Professor Sigmon to everyone.

Super light class. Midterm and final were so easily as long as you study and do the readings. Readings weren't bad and were doable. He provides a study guide for midterm and final. He's chill and a funny professor.
You have weekly discussion posts based on the readings ~500 words.
1 midterm
1 5 page paper on someone's job [also super easy]
1 final
10 discussion posts

This was my first class ever at UCLA, and though challenging, I really felt like I learned a lot in this class! The TAs and the professors were super helpful, you just have to be willing to put in the time and energy needed in order to do good in the class! :)

The class itself is quite interesting. I enjoyed many of the readings of people such as Marx, Nietzsche, and Durkheim. It is difficult though. There were many readings and the tests were very difficult to get above a 90%. I studied an insane amount for them and only managed mid to low A's on them. Almost impossible to get an A+, and many will struggle to even get a B+. I'd recommend not taking 4 classes if this is one of them like I did, but do what you want.

Professor Sigmon is a fairly nice guy though. Going to TA office hours is pretty much mandatory or else you might be screwed for the midterm and final, which are short essays about the topics we read and learned about. We also have short essays due every week.

10/10 recommend! Each week you're expected to: read excerpts from sociological theorists, respond to 1 discussion post relating to the materials (two due dates, you'll pick which one you want to do), and attend discussion to go over the readings and course content. Lectures are non-mandatory with slides uploaded after, but they are really helpful as Prof Sigmon uses said slides to break down the material. He makes a lot of great modern analogies to help the trickier parts feel more digestible and has a good sense of humor too! Some might find lecture a bit boring, but it's not very long, and I'd say nearly half the classes we got let out at least 15 minutes early (just depends on how much material we needed to cover). Mid-term and final are both long-answer questions that mimic the weekly discussion format. Prof Sigmon releases a list of topics the week before, so that's super helpful! Probably the best sociology class I've taken, DEFINITELY the best in relation to sociological theory!