Maybe one of the best Engcomp 3 professors. Give you opportunities to rewrite your paper based on advice provided by him and give you an A to the rewrite. Passionate about the films he shows us. Helpful to train your basic skills in writing papers. TAKE his class.

Professor Creese is super nice. I took this class during CSI and it was one of the best classes I've taken. He had office hours everyday during the week before the final paper due, which was extremely useful. Go to the writing center more often and don't panic when u get a C or D on ur first paper. Rewrite them and you'll be fine.

Amazing Professor! Shows genuine care for his students and is passionate about the subject he teaches (which was screwball comedy for my class). Some tips from a former A student who took his English Comp 3 class. DO: go to his office hours, go to class, pay attention to class, make note of the things he says during lectures (he gives some good ideas), at least read long summaries of the movies and don't procrastinate with the essays (Go to the writing center). OPTIONAL (Good but for me at least unneccsary): Read the required reading in the course reader (Read two articles out of like 11 lol), Watch the movies (I actually watched all the movies because I enjoyed them a lot), and do study groups (talked some things over with a friend). If you read the whole thing then good job lol. But honestly, please take this class with Crease. I can almost guarantee that you will not regret it! (P.S. (for any international students) he is very tolerant with grammer mistakes since he gives rewrites so don't be afraid to take this class).

MAJOR KEY REVIEW: This class is writing intensive and focuses on screwball comedy films from the 1920s through 1980s. Creese assigned three essays, two mid quarter and one final. Each paper will conclude the viewing of three movies, so you write about the first three movies in your first paper and so on. Each time you turn in an essay you will get it back with a pretty poor grade. Both of my mid quarter papers I got returned to me with Cs. However, he returns the paper with 7-12 comments giving feedback. He allows a rewrite for the mid quarter papers which he wants back in 2 weeks after he hands back the original. As long as you address his comments and put in a little bit more of your own flair or whatever, you'll get an A back. I got both mid quarter papers back with As. As for the final paper. Theoretically if you write your mid quarter paper on the right topics, you can just combine those two papers stylistically and add a few more pages on the remaining movies and turn that in as your final paper. DO: go to the Undergraduate Writing Center, watch the movies before classes, start writing sooner than later, do the readings he requires from his course reader. DON'T: fall asleep every class like I did because he turns off the lights and plays a movie.

The workload in this class is very light. There is 3 essays total if I remember correctly. Two essays that is 4 pages each and the Final essay is 6-8 pages long? I barely watched the movies when I was in class, however, I did watch some on my own because the movies were pretty good. I usually don't watch those kind of genre, but I found it interesting. The things the professor elaborated on were also interesting. Honestly, this class depends on the person as well. I attended most lectures, barely watched the movies, but did well in the class. The essays are based on the movies and if you use a lot of quotes, he likes that too. He also gives guidelines to what he wants on the essays, so the hard part is already dealt with. Overall it's not a hard class but you do walk away learning something interesting.

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Solid Professor who really does try to improve student writing.

Take his essays seriously and actually do all the rewrites. Thats basically all you need to do to get a good grade in his class.

All the classes at UCLA should be like his class. You have so much fun while you are actually learning. Take him. You will have absolutely no regret.
Also, if you really want to get an A, take him during summer. That's what I did.

Good: All you do is watch movies in his class and the paper are doable. He is nice and very caring

Downside: He criticizes harshly student's essays. This is by no means an easy class. Be prepared to do a lot of work for this class.

Here's the thing: I signed up for Professor Creese's English Comp class after reading these reviews on bruinwalk. From them, I believed he was going to be a fun professor, and that class would be enjoyable. He is no doubt a nice man; he is light-hearted and likes to crack (bad) jokes. However, I don't think he's a proficient teacher.

The class is composed of two shorter papers (3 pages), and one final paper (8-10 pages, worth the same amount as the two previous combined). On the first paper, he admitted that he gave everyone across the board bad grades: C's and D's with the occasional B thrown in. I believe he artificially deflated the grades of our first papers so we could "show improvement" throughout the rest of the course. I spent no more time on the second paper than my first. I got a C+ on my first paper and an A- on my second. For my rewrite of my first paper, I literally ONLY tweeked my conclusion, and received an A in return. I didn't go to a single one of his office hours and received an A for the year.

In his class, you usually watch SBC films in their entirety, or you watch certain scenes that he previews. He'll stop the scenes to add his own commentary and analysis to the particular scene. WRITE THESE DOWN. He likes to hear his own opinions reiterated back to him. I watched only 3 out of the 9 required films (I soon figured out it was unnecessary and immediately stopped), and managed to BS my way through the remaining 2 papers.
Also, THE READING IS UNNECESSARY. Borrow the coursereader and the books; I used mine maybe twice. You certainly don't have to do all the readings, and you just need to skim a couple of the selections out of the course reader and incorporate a couple quotes into your papers.

This isn't a terrible class. But it's not fun either. Just know the right short cuts to take and you'll get a good grade.