This class was amazing! I felt professor nassali was such an interesting lecturer and I walked out of class feeling like I had learned so much everytime. Class was really based in on a midterm essay and a final essay where you are analyzing primary sources. There’s also a final project which can be a podcast or blogpost on a contemporary issue you’re passionate about. Then participation grade. I loved this class so much and definitely suggest it!

PROFESSOR NASIALI IS ONE OF THE WORST PROFESSORS I'VE EVER HAD AT UCLA. SHE IS NOT HELPFUL AT ALL AND IS CONDESCENDING TOWARDS HER STUDENTS. IF YOU CAN AVOID HER, DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS.

Excellent professor! She is a very engaging lecturer and made the subject interesting for me to learn about. It was easy to follow along during lecture since she connected everything to a broader theme. It is important that you talk with your TA about expectations for the essay's since each one wants something a little different. Overall, I would recommend this class if you like French history.

I was intimidated by taking this capstone, but Prof. Nasiali made the class comfortable and engaging from start to end. She showed that she cares about us in and out of the classroom and has been a great guide in conducting research. I highly recommend you take her class!

class was easy, professor was not the best. She was a hard grader and not very clear when It came to assignments. if you put in the work you will do fine

Professor Nasiali is a great professor. She is very energetic, helpful, and fair. She describes this class as a graduate level course, and she's not kidding: the readings are extremely difficult. However, she is extremely helpful and understands the difficulty of the course. I was not personally interested in the subject matter of racial capitalism, which is mostly what the class focuses on, but I still got a lot out of it. Not for the faint of heart, but I would recommend.

If you're a STEM major like me, it's possible you will get very bored in this class. The only info she puts on the slides are few word bullet points, so you actually have to pay attention to what she is saying.

There is only 1 midterm, 1 final, and a project where you have to design a poster, drawing, poem, or some form of creation that represents a historical moment she went over, which was pretty easy.

For the midterm and final, you get the whole class period to write hefty paragraphs explaining key terms (choose 3/4 out of 7ish), which kind of reminded me of AP exams tbh. The grading kind of depends on your TA, mine gave me an A- on the midterm which I was shocked by bc I thought i ate that up, but he said it was bc i didn't include enough information from the textbook (which everyone complained about lol). However, I went to his office hours and he gave me some points back and told me how to better on the final, where I did end up getting an A.

Overall, not a bad teacher and class. I didn't try too hard or ever read the texts/textbook until the final, so don't be scared to take this class, especially if it's your thing (unlike me).

This is an easy GE, but it is not a walk in the park. Nasiali goes pretty quick in lecture and if you zone out for 10 minutes you might miss 30 years of history. Lecture slides are not posted, and only the lecture audio is put online, no video. You have to take good notes to be prepared for the midterm and final. I went to every class and I think it would be hard to do well if you didn’t. Midterm and final are sit-down exams where you just write about some of the terms from the class, which isn’t bad as long as you have a kind TA grading. Overall good GE but it seems like she is trying to make it tougher.