Spring 2023: At first, I was a bit scared because of the mixed reviews that I have seen on various websites, but to put it simply, take this class! This was the first Sociology class I attended as a transfer student and my first quarter at UCLA. Also, no textbooks needed which was awesome, he provides everything! Granted, 8 am classes are a drag, but it goes by quickly. The grading scale is a mid-term, an essay, discussion attendance, and a final exam, (exams are prompts you need to answer)which was reasonably easy ONLY IF you attend class regularly, take notes, and attend the discussions. In all honesty, I did not read any of the articles that were assigned BUT I attended every day and took great notes, and passed, I would've passed with an A if I had read the articles since it's more informative than Dr. Jepson's lectures, but I didn't want to overwhelm myself. One tip that I HIGHLY recommend is to start on your essay ahead of time if you decide on a concept to write about. Don't forget to buy blue books for your exams too! Overall, if you attend the lectures/discussions and put in the work, you will pass. Don't sweat it, everything on the exams and essays is straightforward.

Honestly, not my favorite. Walking to class at 8 am just to see Prof Jepson standing in front of what looks like a google doc with a million bullet points, talking at you with no variation in the way he speaks was not my favorite. I skipped most lectures after that. Abigail, my TA, was wonderful, though. Grade is only made up of two exams, a final paper, and discussion attendance so kind of unforgiving. After talking to people who've had Jepson multiple times, though, I realized all you had to do to study for the exams was take the discussion study guide (no need to look at lecture one) and know the answers toe ach of the questions on there, which are given to you in discussion anyways. The discussion questions are usually the exact ones on the exams, so know those and you're golden. Other than that, though, Jepson as a lecturer was just so dull and droning, so I'll probably try to avoid him in the future. If you're looking for a class you can get an A with little effort, though, you've found the right place.

AVOID THIS MAN AT ALL COST

Jepson is awesome, the TA's were all a bunch of turds.

Jepson's a great guy, definitely take the time to talk to him outside of class, he makes himself extremely available and it is totally worth it. However he loves to go off on tangents during his lectures and since they're at 8am and you probably are an efficient note-taker, who knows that they don't need to write down all 6 examples he gave on one concept, you WILL need coffee to stay awake throughout the full lecture. Once again, he's a great guy. Take his course. It's not difficult to get an A, just make sure you have a firm understanding of the material, however you do need to put in the effort.

Jepson is, so far, the best professor I have had at UCLA. He makes the lectures entertaining and interesting and speaks slowly enough that a slow typer like me can get all of the information down.

Great class and awesome professor.
The assigned readings are excellent. Prof. Jepson is gem for the Sociology Dept and what I like most is his politics

Great professor.. He is VERY entertaining in lectures. The only problem, 8am :( !!! But, he is very available to meet (i missed a lot of lectures).. This is not an "easy A" so you do have to read and pay attention in class however there is minimal effort to get a good grade if you are good at retaining information. If not, you might have to study a little harder.

DO NOT GET the Ritzer textbook (its like 80 something dollars and I did not read it once!) he goes over the topics from the Ritzer text in class so just get the coursereader for discussion (like 30 bucks)..
Someone told me not to get the Ritzer textbook but I did not listen and now I am out 80 bucks..

But.. great course, great professor!!!

I liked Jepson. His lectures were pretty interesting and easy to follow. I think the workload for his class is pretty reasonable. I ended up with a B+ in the class but i blame that on my TA. There are 5 mini papers that account for 30% of your grade and my TA was harsh on those so it brought my grade down. But besides that i liked the class overall and I like Jepson. His tests weren't too hard. Considering I studied a day before the final and midterm and got an A on the midterm.

This class was...alright. My expectations of Jepson were high based on the reviews that I read on here. I expected him to make an 8AM class bearable and fun, but boy was I wrong. He was only funny because he would throw out some cuss words and use a good joke every now and then, but in general, the class was pretty boring. I dreaded waking up to go to his class. He wasn't a horrible teacher, and is a good person, but he just wasn't very interesting and lectured off topic too many times. The tests are fair, the multiple choice can be tricky, but for the most part I found them easy. The essay questions are like the TA discussion questions, so hopefully that'll help. For the first midterm, I recommend going to the test bank. He reused a lot of the old questions.

Overall, you can take this class if you want to get the GE requirement out of the way. Make sure you actually work on those papers, because they can screw you over. My TA was very strict with the way she wanted the papers done, which was irritating, but after you submit a few, you get the hang of it. Be concise.