I don't even know where to begin with this class but I will keep it simple. Overall Professor Huehls is very interested about what he instructs and tries to convey that to his class. However, his fiction was very difficult for me to understand. Often times Huehls tries to push these ideas and concepts about the novels on you and they DO NOT MAKE SENSE. If you ask questions he tends to twist your words so in the end he makes you more confused. As much as I tried to understand his thinking and analysis, I just couldn't because the concepts were so far reaching and abstract. He tries to pack a lot of information into every lecture and it really all becomes far to theoretical. Also, I did have a TA for this course in discussion who was no help either. It didn't seem like she quite understood what he had to say either. In the end the class is bearable (at most) and I would most likely have taken another class instead of this one. If you are planning on taking this class don't expect to understand anything he says because none of his theories about the novels make sense!

Not a big fan. His day one,"take this class seriously/I'm going to grade tough, etc." lecture left a bad taste in my mouth. He was often condescending-to the class in general, not individuals-which made the class hard to sit through because his lectures are of the audience validation variety, cracking jokes that would be funnier coming from a less insulting professor. Aside from that, his lectures were good, but delivered at break-neck speed, and the reading list was not too bad.

Huehls is a nice guy. At first impression he doesn't come across as very friendly, but once you get to know him he is nice, funny, and most importantly fair. No wasted effort in this class. That said, he bombards you with information. Its difficult to take notes and grasp the abstract things he is talking about at the same time. Overall the workload of the class is fair, the grading is pretty lenient. The comments on the MT and paper make it sound like you did horrible and it turns out you got an A. Overall I'd recommend him, but brace yourself for information overload!

While I've heard decent things about him for 173C, perhaps the seminar setting of 182C is not where his teaching style belongs. That said, I took the 182C seminar on Human Rights Literature, and his conduct of the class was perhaps further skewed by the fact that he was teaching a class he was doing his own research on. As a result, I felt that instead of allowing ample opportunity for the class to make its own discoveries, to cultivate its own interests in the material, he steamrolled us. He definitely had a direction he wanted to steer the class in, and went to great lengths to make sure we spent 3 hours working towards his personal point. To his credit, he did have moments of clarity throughout the quarter in which he made efforts to be more inclusive of what issues we were interested in addressing, but those efforts were short-lived. Throughout the quarter, I couldn't shake the feeling that Huehls is still one of those intellects with some sort of chip on his shoulder, constantly having to prove how smart he is.

Overall, though, the class wasn't bad--the material was interesting, the workload a bit heavy (especially if taking other literature courses at the same time). A novel a week in addition to secondary texts, one-page response papers (which he--oddly, IMO--let people turn in up until week 9), all culminating in a final presentation and research paper. It's a bit of work, but as long as you put in a decent amount of effort in and outside of class, you should fare well.

Huehls is a great professor and I really enjoyed this class. He is incredibly engaged with all of the material and makes everything in the class super interesting to learn about. The reading load is a bit heavy but I found sticking to a reading schedule and using audiobooks very helpful. If you are considering this class I definitely recommend!

When I took this class, the theme was U.S. Fiction after the Cold War. Definitely one of my favorite classes at UCLA. Huehls is so chill, the type of professor that curses in class and doesn't use Canvas. I wish I had gone to office hours more because he's a great conversationalist!

I think we read about 8 books through the quarter. Since we're reading them through a post-postmodern/contemporary lens, the lecture ideas can lean theory-heavy. But Huehls breaks them down really well and makes them super interesting. For example he referenced Aubrey Plaza to explain literary New Sincerity, which really made the concept click for me.

There are three assignments throughout the quarter, each focusing on a chunk of the texts we read. You can choose to do a take-home final (ID passages, short answer FRQs, and one essay prompt), an essay of your own chosen length and prompt, OR a creative project. I loved the flexibility of the options, and Huehls definitely takes the time to go through all submissions. He emails us personally to give thoughtful, detailed feedback.

Also, you get to choose your grade. I hopped onto a Zoom with him, explained why I thought I should get an A+, and he gave it to me. Crazy! But it really goes to show how much Huehls cares about our learning/understanding of the course ideas as well as our accountability for the work we've done.

Take his class, you won't regret it!

Professor Huehls is one of my favorite professors in the English department. His lectures are saturated with humor, and I appreciate how he values diversity in perspectives among students. He always provides numerous interpretations of the readings and allows us to make our own inferences about the text with the provided information, as opposed to enforcing one view upon us. We did have short quizzes every week, but they were brief plot questions; I'm normally a bad quiz/test taker, but doing well on his quizzes was more than manageable.
That being said, he's definitely not an easy essay grader, but I do think he's fair. He's immensely helpful as long as you reach out and don't wait until the last minute. I highly recommend going to his office hours, as they've provided me a lot of guidance about how to approach the two papers for the quarter. Overall, I really enjoyed Huehls's class and found the experience rewarding.