Honestly pretty easy A for a GE and very interesting as it’s all about the Holocaust. I am selling ALL of the required texts for this class which are all brand new copies (night, Maus, all the things my father never told me, & the reader) text ********** if interested!

Lectures are super boring for the class. I fell asleep EVERY lecture for at least 30 minutes. It consists of Professor Fuchs reading off slides the entire time. She went through the slides pretty fast, so taking notes was almost pointless. But luckily, as others pointed out, the lectures are Bruincasted so going to lecture is basically pointless. The vast majority of your grade will come from your TA, which each does things differently. Other TA's had a group project, while mine did not. Mine was a relatively easy grader. I found all the required books except for one online. The books are just novels, so there is no real textbook for the class. Papers for the class are simple, nothing too hard. The final is almost exactly like the study guide given for the class, so make sure to go over it and you should be set for the final.

This is a good class to take for an easy A. No work necessary besides cramming for the final.

The professor is boring, but it's an easy class. The readings were, in my opinion, very interesting. She just reads off the slides and it's BruinCasted, so there's honestly no need to go to class at all. My TA was wonderful, I really liked her! There are 2 to 3 papers each quarter, no midterm, and a final.

This was one of the most frustrating classes I've taken at UCLA. Of course, it is a German 3 class, but this professor did not help make it better in any way. The workload for this class was very heavy given a language class. We had 2 books over the quarter, packets, and multiple tests. This professor was unclear on what she wanted and not helpful. If you asked a question she would either seem annoyed or proceed to answer before you finished explaining your question. If you can choose a different professor for German classes, I definitely would.

selling both Maus and Night for 10 dollars. Contact: *************

DO NOT TAKE GERMAN WITH DR. FUCHS!

Dr. Fuchs is the worst language teacher I have ever had. I have studied many languages in my life but I’ve never had such a bad learning experience. Week after week, Dr. Fuchs showed us her lack of support and extreme demotivation. The worst part of her “teaching approach” is that she does not motivate her students to learn German. Dr. Fuchs looks profoundly bored during class and annoyed when students ask her questions. Once she replied to a classmate’s grammar question by saying: “Ah, yeah, that’s because in German we have many rules and many exceptions,” without providing any explanation to the student.

Here is a list of the reasons why I think Dr. Fuchs should not be teaching German language courses:

1. Lack of knowledge of the course materials: when asked about the online book, she would always tell us to contact the support team on the book’s website. However, most questions were related to the homework that she had assigned but never looked at. As an example, she assigned the same homework twice, and when asked about it, she decided to delete that whole week of homework (which was counterproductive, since we could not access that homework to study for the exam anymore). It seemed that she didn't want to grade any homework.
2. It was clear to students that someone else had prepared the course materials and that she was just using what another professor had planned.
3. Lack of support to students: when asked any kind of question, she would look irritated and start patronizing, as if we were annoying children. She also never replied to students' emails.
4. Most of the homework and midterms were graded electronically, but Dr. Fuchs never graded any of the BLINK homework that needed to be graded by her. I imagine she does that at the end of the quarter, but that is not helpful because there is no way of receiving individual feedback throughout the course.
5. Dr. Fuchs didn't know our names and didn't care about our individual learning processes. She always looked disinterested and lazy.

Of course, German is a difficult language, but precisely because of this and because of the decrease of students in her department, Dr. Fuchs should care more about her class and enjoy the opportunity that has been given to her to teach in a top university.