You can tell Mary Corey wishes she was black as she walks around in her Rihanna Puma's using the N word every other sentence. Well that was in her class from Spring quarter. In this class she complained about the sensitive students who couldn't handle history (black people are getting called the N word and being shot almost everyday. This isn't just history, this is the present struggle of many Americans, and there are consequences to using words like this.) and then managed to refer to everything as "retarded," and complain about "trigger warnings" saying she does not believe in them for her classes despite the fact that two veterans with PTSD once ended up hospitalized from a book she forced them to read. Apart from that, her lectures make little sense and it really makes me wonder what this schools standards are. Pathetic.

Mary Corey you've aged too badly to ever be black. Just accept it. You're the whitest person I've met in my life.

If you need a history course take Teo Ruiz before he retires- he is a brilliant professor who fought for his education. Or take Nile Green whose passion is contagious and expertise shines through in his lectures. Or take Geoffrey Robinson whose lectures are more engrossing than any action movie I've ever watched and will make you want to join the peace corps tomorrow.

Well maybe she's here to even things out a little bit because there's still some brilliant minds in this department.

Do not recommend taking this class. You cannot have a professor with a class of over 200 people with no TA's and get upset when students want them to hold more office hours. She is very funny, blunt, and comical during her lectures. She would use at least 10 minutes at the beginning of each lecture to figure out how to use a microphone. Class is very simple, she knows the history of the time period and does not use any slides with the information she gives. The class is 50% midterm paper and 50% final paper. The questions are literally formed to echo chamber what she believes. What if you do not necessarily agree with her views? Well, your grade might suffer. She is getting old and even though she still enjoys being a professor that knows a lot about US History, its either time to get people (TA's) to help her or its time to throw in the towel.

Mary Corey is the Liberal Colleen Donaghy from 30 Rock

I really enjoyed Mary's class. She is an old school type of professor and does not use slides. Instead she uses pure lecture to get the material across. She's been around UCLA since the 60s and has a lot of interesting tidbits about her time here as it relates to U.S. History, e.g. her meeting Malcolm X at Ackerman in the early 60s. She is also hilarious. She does not care about trigger warnings and it is the first thing she says at the beginning of her class. The class was pretty straight forward. There was one take home midterm and one final. They were composed of three mini-essays: 8 pages (minimum) total for both the midterm and final. Listen, if you are offended by her language the problem lies with you. This is college, get over it. I love the fact that she doesn't tailor the lecture to the soft-snowflake crowd. And I say this as someone who's liberal, which she is as well but acknowledges other points of view, too.

The books are all available on reserve at the library. You are also expected to show up to office hours twice and one midterm and one final review session: that makes up your participation grade. The TAs are pretty helpful in that they give you a rubric on how to write a good paper.

Please disregard any positive reviews about this Professor. If you want to save your grades, do not take this class. Just don’t do it. I don’t know how her grade distribution looks good when in reality you will be crying due to stress. If you want to ask her a question, get ready to be called a moron or yelled at. I honestly think Corey has mental issues. Not only are her lectures unbelievably grim to watch, but they do not help you answer the prompts on the midterm/final. Because it is so unclear as to what tf is actually going on, even if you write a perfect essay, her readers or even Corey herself will nitpick the living day-lights out of your paper. So, if I could save even one person from taking this class, don’t do it. Just don’t.

Corey teaches largely through generalizations and anecdotes, which is challenging to academic notions of a serious study of the subject. However, her tests, though slightly eccentric in setup, are thoroughly approachable even with poor lecture attendance and a skimmed reading of the textbook.

Its more of a free range class where she talks over picture slides not much information. Even Though sometimes her lectures are unorganized and jump from topic to topic her classes never fail to capture my attention. She is humorous and uses her experience as an adoloscent in the 60s to add a unique view on the history of intellectuals.

This class consists of essays and a book review and an easy Autobiography of what you think life signifies and means. Take this class if you want to laugh and feel as if your tired of all you r other mundane professors.

Professor Corey is a bit silly and doesn't know what shes doing with technology. A lot of reading and writing papers. I would not suggest this class.

She's not the demonic apparition that some of these comments are portraying her as, but she's definitely not one of the better lecturers I've ever had. Her style of presentation in class is very disorganized, she goes off on far too many irrelevant tangents (gee, let's preach to the choir and remind the class that being LGBT is not a choice!), and she generally doesn't convey material very effectively. Praise for take-home exams.

Despite what you may have heard, she is not an easy grader; but she is an excellent professor and never boring.