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Mark Huppin
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Winter 2025 - Definitely a very interesting class! Made up of midterm, essay, and final. Essays are graded fairly, however you need to study heavily for exams to understand the different components of each legal case. Exam questions can be tricky, because he will ask about the nitty-gritty details of each one. You should know their circumstances, the ruling, and reasonings for why they ruled that way. This is a great class if you're pre-law!
Winter 2025 - Definitely a very interesting class! Made up of midterm, essay, and final. Essays are graded fairly, however you need to study heavily for exams to understand the different components of each legal case. Exam questions can be tricky, because he will ask about the nitty-gritty details of each one. You should know their circumstances, the ruling, and reasonings for why they ruled that way. This is a great class if you're pre-law!
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Do not take this class. All he does is preach about evolutionary psychology. I cannot believe this pseudo-scientific sexist crap is being taught at a prestigious University like UCLA. Pornography is "natural", killing stepchildren is "natural", and rape is an adaptation. Men are only attracted to women with good looks, women are only attracted to men with a fat wallet, and all humans are just pre programmed robots. If you believe humans are free agents, and in charge of their own destiny, take a class with Paul von Blum instead.
Do not take this class. All he does is preach about evolutionary psychology. I cannot believe this pseudo-scientific sexist crap is being taught at a prestigious University like UCLA. Pornography is "natural", killing stepchildren is "natural", and rape is an adaptation. Men are only attracted to women with good looks, women are only attracted to men with a fat wallet, and all humans are just pre programmed robots. If you believe humans are free agents, and in charge of their own destiny, take a class with Paul von Blum instead.
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Spring 2018 - Overall, this class has been my least favorite. The professor himself is an extremely nice guy, and I can tell he tries to make his lectures interesting. But, his lectures are extremely hard to follow as it is simply 75 minutes of him listing a ton of facts about different experiments. It’s almost impossible to type or write fast enough to get the information down, and his slides don’t help at all. His tests are based on those tedious facts, so unless you can keep up, it’s really hard to do well on his tests. He says you should be able to guess the right answer if you understand the concepts, but I disagree.
Spring 2018 - Overall, this class has been my least favorite. The professor himself is an extremely nice guy, and I can tell he tries to make his lectures interesting. But, his lectures are extremely hard to follow as it is simply 75 minutes of him listing a ton of facts about different experiments. It’s almost impossible to type or write fast enough to get the information down, and his slides don’t help at all. His tests are based on those tedious facts, so unless you can keep up, it’s really hard to do well on his tests. He says you should be able to guess the right answer if you understand the concepts, but I disagree.
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Spring 2020 - [spring 2020 covid online quarter] Once Huppin subbed for one of my classes in Winter quarter I knew I had to take him. He was fantastic but I'll wager he would have been better in person. His teaching style revolves around asking students to discuss and critically think about the cases and legal debate issues he brings up in class. The same 10 students out of 100 ended up being the only ones talking week to week (you bet I was in the 90). He places an emphasis on showing up to class and engaging yourself (he only sent class recordings to students in other timezones/good reason for missing, he didn't post it for your general review/replay). If you don't listen and take notes, you will miss things, and his slides purposely only guide his lecture and cannot be relied on to help you study. That being said, idk if was because of that, or because of his engaging, very human and sensitive approach to the new circumstances of this quarter, % class attendance was really high every time. He also adjusted the class to talk about current events with COVID and BLM and stuff, very take it as you go guy. There was a good amount of reading, which I didn't do very sincerely, but if you do scan over it, it lines up with the lectures pretty well and will help you do well on the tests. (Ah, I remember he said he usually assigns a course reader which I assume would be $$ but this quarter he uploaded everything online so I escaped paying for that ig, nice.) He also assigned 2 movies which were a good time, 8/10 (also gave us off class on the days we should watch those on our own, I think he usually shows them in class). Grade was based on two tests. The questions to be honest weren't very straight-proceeding from the class material and really wanted to see whether you were thinking, which I think should be the point of school, but made it hard to figure out what to say in order to get the points. In all, definitely take this class, but know that Huppin's teaching style almost certainly suits in-person the best.
Spring 2020 - [spring 2020 covid online quarter] Once Huppin subbed for one of my classes in Winter quarter I knew I had to take him. He was fantastic but I'll wager he would have been better in person. His teaching style revolves around asking students to discuss and critically think about the cases and legal debate issues he brings up in class. The same 10 students out of 100 ended up being the only ones talking week to week (you bet I was in the 90). He places an emphasis on showing up to class and engaging yourself (he only sent class recordings to students in other timezones/good reason for missing, he didn't post it for your general review/replay). If you don't listen and take notes, you will miss things, and his slides purposely only guide his lecture and cannot be relied on to help you study. That being said, idk if was because of that, or because of his engaging, very human and sensitive approach to the new circumstances of this quarter, % class attendance was really high every time. He also adjusted the class to talk about current events with COVID and BLM and stuff, very take it as you go guy. There was a good amount of reading, which I didn't do very sincerely, but if you do scan over it, it lines up with the lectures pretty well and will help you do well on the tests. (Ah, I remember he said he usually assigns a course reader which I assume would be $$ but this quarter he uploaded everything online so I escaped paying for that ig, nice.) He also assigned 2 movies which were a good time, 8/10 (also gave us off class on the days we should watch those on our own, I think he usually shows them in class). Grade was based on two tests. The questions to be honest weren't very straight-proceeding from the class material and really wanted to see whether you were thinking, which I think should be the point of school, but made it hard to figure out what to say in order to get the points. In all, definitely take this class, but know that Huppin's teaching style almost certainly suits in-person the best.
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Spring 2024 - Huppin has been one of the best professors I have had at UCLA. He is super engaging and the material is not too difficult. He is a very chill instructor. The class consisted of a midterm that had a total of maybe 20 questions (half multiple choice and half short answer), a thought paper that was 3 pages in length, and a final that is the same format as the midterm. Highly recommend.
Spring 2024 - Huppin has been one of the best professors I have had at UCLA. He is super engaging and the material is not too difficult. He is a very chill instructor. The class consisted of a midterm that had a total of maybe 20 questions (half multiple choice and half short answer), a thought paper that was 3 pages in length, and a final that is the same format as the midterm. Highly recommend.
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Spring 2025 - If I could have every class at UCLA be taught by Professor Huppin, I would. He really is knowledgeable, logical and extremely clear in his communication which makes his classes with sometimes difficult material digestible and understandable. Nothing about his courses are tricky or overwhelmingly complex, typically one paper and two exams, non cumulative. Simply put, attend lecture, write the paper, do the exam, walk away with an A with minimal work, studying, etc. This also isn't a class that you need to suck up to him, I've spoken maybe three times max with the professor and taken two classes with him, both ending with A's. Super straight forward so if you like that, take this class! It's also incredibly interesting and he makes a great effort to make the readings and exams relevant to current events!
Spring 2025 - If I could have every class at UCLA be taught by Professor Huppin, I would. He really is knowledgeable, logical and extremely clear in his communication which makes his classes with sometimes difficult material digestible and understandable. Nothing about his courses are tricky or overwhelmingly complex, typically one paper and two exams, non cumulative. Simply put, attend lecture, write the paper, do the exam, walk away with an A with minimal work, studying, etc. This also isn't a class that you need to suck up to him, I've spoken maybe three times max with the professor and taken two classes with him, both ending with A's. Super straight forward so if you like that, take this class! It's also incredibly interesting and he makes a great effort to make the readings and exams relevant to current events!
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