I can only say that this class was worst class that I've ever taken in UCLA!! Most of all the TA for this class is horrible. She doesn't like students to ask any questions during office hours and she always seems angry when I asked some questions. Also, the slides are so ambiguous that it is very hard to understand what are the materials saying. Even I believe that TA don't understand what is going on for class contents. I don't recommend this class unless if you want to challenge yourself

Nushin is the best. Her class is very straightforward and there are no textbooks/anything required for this class. This is my second class with her and her classes are all formatted the same: one blue-book midterm week 6 and a 1.5-spaced 10-12 page paper for the final, due at the end of finals week. The midterm is very easy if you went to the review session and took notes on what types of questions she was going to ask and going over the slides she posts to answer those questions. The readings posted are not necessary, but familiarize yourself with certain authors and their ideas because those will come in handy when answering midterm/final prompts. The final paper is long, but doesn't require much outside research; you just have to apply the lectures (posted online) and name-drop some authors/scholars and their concepts. There is only the midterm and final - you don't have to do anything else for the class. It is very easy and Nushin is great; she is excited about her work and will answer any questions you have.

I am a third year STEM major and this was my first time taking any comm class in my entire life, as I needed upper div units and this class fit my schedule nicely. I also didn't know a single person in the class nor was I ever able to go to the professor's office hours because I had class during that time. Your entire grade is just one midterm and one final paper that is 1.5 spacing 12 pages, which turns out to really be around 15 pages double spaced. This sounds pretty daunting because messing up on either of the assignments can really lower your grade. On the other hand, the midterm was very fair. The professor herself posts all the lecture slides after each week. At the end of each lecture slides there are "Test yourself" questions and basically if you can answer all of these, and the answers are all straight from her slides, then her midterm is extremely fair because her midterm questions are very similar, if not almost the same as the "Test yourself" questions in the slides. For our final paper, the professor took 6 quotes online from peoples' views on terrorism and we had to verify how accurate it was using the material we learned from lecture, 2 pages per quote. I was never able to go to the professor's office hours and the one time I tried to go to the TA for help, there was a long ass line for people wanting a regrade on their midterm. So I just went to the professor a few minutes before class started and she was more than happy to answer any questions you were uncertain about for the final prompts. As for the professor herself, she is extremely passionate and her lectures are very organized, and also incredibly nice. Lastly, besides the midterm which you really only need to start studying 5-7 days before at the most, and the final paper that isn't assigned until end of week 8, you really don't have to do anything else in between, along with not having to buy any books, unlike a lot of other north campus classes.