The required readings were very engaging and interesting. Participation matters in this class so be sure to do the readings and be aware of all information.
She is a tough grader. Simple reading responses (mainly essays on your opinion) she grades for content. Also, for her essays she grades VERY hard. The class average for our first essay was a "C" and she was proud of that. Personally, I have very high standards so I was a bit upset when she stated that. To do well on essays, I highly recommend to get additional support. Go to the Undergraduate Writing Center or Writing Success Program, book an appointment and be sure to carefully edit your essay before you turn it in. She is very picky about formatting, grammar and just everything. In the beginning of the quarter, she did signs of favoritism which made me feel uncomfortable however as the quarter was ending, I just got over it. Also, she doesn't really respond to emails BUT
She is a good professor and passionate because she supports you by having workshops (grammar, MLA format, word choice, passive voice) and mandatory office hours.

Man, I loved this class so much. The start of the course was very intimidating because I felt like an airhead compared to all the scholars in the class. It is super intimate and generally chill though, and I found everyone to be very sweet in the class. We honestly just had open discussions on most days about UCLA and our goals. So wholesome!
The readings aren't entirely necessary to do, I would just call them supplementary. The workload was definitely the most for me, but it was all self reflective and creative stuff. It was very manageable.
Professor Samuelson is the nicest woman ever! She is a genius and very understanding. She deserves it all!
I would 100/10 recommend this class!

You honestly get what you put into this class. Really enjoyed the introspection and chatting with her but if you aren't into it it can get quite boring sometimes. Would recommend taking it later if you can so you can work on your resume with her!

Overall, I found this class to be boring but it was really easy. Professor S is super nice and really aims to connects with students. Discussions were very interesting every class period and involved a lot of personal reflection. Workload was decent and graded super easily; basically if you do it, you'll get 100. You create 2 blogs, 1 personal, 1 group, a few written responses, 1 project and final is an e-portfolio. Professor S was great but this class was boring. Easy A though and you meet some really great people.

This class was very project-heavy. It's not really like a class class with material, we mostly just talked about our career aspirations. It was helpful because one of the assignments was creating a resume which we got feedback on. There were just so many projects though. It was like project after project. It got pretty hard to manage tbh. We worked on a blog throughout the quarter that we would write posts for intermittently. There were also Written Response assignments mostly about the Roadmap book. Lots of readings, some long. Everyone has to lead discussion one time and for that you have to read the reading in depth and make a presentation on it (slideshow as well as around 10 minute presentation, but some people's were 20-30 minutes). Next we had a Group Website Project which was kind of exhausting. None of these projects are hard, they're just very time-consuming. It is difficult to make pretty websites. So hard in that way. Then right after that group project we had to write another blog post about Cultivating Happiness (see it's not hard stuff, it just takes up a lot of time). And then we wrote our resumes. And then we had a third Blog Post about Goal-Setting, and then a "Remix Project" right after that (another project! They kind of never ended), and then for the Honors Collegium I had to make a TikTok about my freshman year, which I guess wasn't really for this class but for the honors program, and then our LAST project was making an "E-Portfolio" where you essentially turn your resume into (ANOTHER) website. You're lucky if you have experience making website when you go into this class.
Update I'm a junior now and I turned the website I made for this class into a sustainability-promoting site that I'm sending on job apps. So if you can def make your website something you will use.

three long papers...
discussion comments 5/quarter.
the professor got sick or whatever so i did not get 2 of my papers. so i did not know what improvements i needed.
shes nice.

She isn't even nice. Worst professor I had so far and will ever have at UCLA. I worked extremely hard on the essays and talked with her several times via appointments but she'd never give me anything in the A range. She is an unreasonably harsh grader (the average grade of her classes is C+ or something), there are a lot of workload that is very time-consuming, and her feedbacks on the essays don't help at all because she just writes a bunch of "awkward"s on top of sentences and don't give any specific advice. Her lectures focus too much on the topic (media and consuming in US) rather than on how to write well. She was either late or did not come to one-on-one office hour appointments and did not even apologize. Fucking hated her. Avoid her if you can.

worst professor ever. she is not a great professor. she has favorites, which you will notice after a week. i went to her office hours, and she was not even present. when i did go, she was on her phone most of the time, which was extremely rude..this happened the 2 or 3 times i went. oh, and i tried to make an appointment with her, and she never replied to the email. she was terrible, stay away. dont enroll in her class

She picked really relevant topics to write about throughout the course which I think was better than what I heard from other ENGCOMP 3 classes. She is really interested in film, so I found the topics she chose really interesting. Easy to approach and took the time to read all of my rough drafts but is a harsh grader in the end and I rewrote most of my papers. Prompts were open-ended which I found difficult personally.

Don't listen to people who say she is a bad professor. Those who say she is bad are probably just lazy. She was wonderful. I had her at 8am and I went every single time because I really looked forward to her class. Her lectures were always great and being a smaller class off 20-something you really connect with her. Participation counts in her class so it can really help your grade if you participate and if you are shy she calls on you so you HAVE to participate and don't miss out on those points. I will admit she is a tough grader; however, she is not unfair. She grades honestly and so people get upset that they do not get a higher grade. She is aware she if a tough grader so from the start she informs you of 5 different opportunities to earn extra credit throughout the quarter. She also cares that you do well in her class so because many people were borderline c+/b- b+/a-towards the end of the quarter she allowed us to answer questions from past readings for extra credit in order to boost our grades. I thought my final paper was great so I didn't do the extra credit and ended up with a B+ but that is my own fault.