Professor Marino is one of my all time favorite professors at UCLA. She genuinely cares about all of her students and will go above and beyond. For this class, there was a Wikipedia group project where you make a Wikipedia page for someone or something that does not have one yet (with the topic being related to the course). This project was so interesting and super cool! I loved it! The class itself is fascinating and the workload is doable. Professor Marino genuinely wants everyone to succeed and will help you get there! She is absolutely amazing, and I definitely recommend taking a class with her!

Dr. Marino was super encouraging and loved hearing students share their thoughts. The class was both live and recorded for us to watch. There were six discussion posts/reflections (~30%) that we could complete at any point in the quarter, so if you wanted to do them all in the first few weeks you could. I'd recommend finishing them early, so you can focus on your primary source analysis (~10%), annotated bibliography (~15%), final research project (40%). The workload is very reasonable, just pace yourself.

This professor was very nice but the class structure was a mess. Most of the students were confused and worried about their grades for the majority of the quarter. I wouldn't take this class again and it was definitely not an easy A.