This class was amazing. I loved Mr. Kelley. His lectures were engaging, funny, and informational. Easy class, definitely a good GE. I would 100% take it again and will be looking to take more of his classes in the future. A lot of reading but you can get away with skipping some, and the assigned book was pretty good. The only completely required, turned in assignments are the midterm 8 page essay which, really when you consider that it's basically the only assignment was not too bad and you have a week to do it (I actually enjoyed that assignment), a group project where you make a website, and a group paper as the final. Basically if you do most of the readings you'll be fine for the essays and discussion section, and most of the readings are interesting. Great class highly recommend.

It isn't too hard to get an A in this class, but the fact that lectures were long and the reading was boring destroyed any interest I had.

Do not listen to earlier reviews on this class as he has changed the structure of the class a lot. While his lectures are engaging and has definitely opened my worldview to real issues caused by corporations and billionaires in society, the class is definitely very politically aligned towards the left. Our graded assignments were 5 in-discussion essays every other week and each essay was worth 10% of our grade. The essays were also timed and harshly graded. The class was interesting and not too hard, but definitely not as easy as an A as it has been.

This was a challenging yet interesting and engaging class. This was my first quarter at UCLA so writing the essays was a little stressful but my TA was really helpful and the grading wasn't too strict. All the lectures were really interesting and you could tell that the professor was very passionate about the topics he was teaching. There was quite a lot of readings assigned, as to be expected from a history class. You can probably get away with not doing the readings if you're knowledgeable on the topic but I recommend at least skimming the readings. We were supposed to have 2 individual essays and a group project (which consisted of making a website), but since the prof is super into group work he made 2 group projects and 1 essay. Overall it was a pretty good class so I would recommend it to anyone who's looking for a decent GE.

I loved taking this class. Professor Kelley is sharp, funny, and super caring for all of his students. The content is an important, insightful, and engaging look at modern history of neoliberalism, and never felt dull despite my not being a huge lover of history. There were two papers (graded fairly easily) and a group project that is really not that much work if all group members do their fair share. I would take this type of class for all of my GEs if i could.

This class was awesome if you’re interested in history. The lectures were really interesting but also bruincasted which was helpful as they were at 9:30am. The general format of the class was a midterm paper, a final project with your entire section, and a final paper which was made into a group paper for our class. Your ta is going to be grading your papers so make sure you know what they’re looking for. A lot of this class is centered around group work, which I enjoyed, but if that’s not your thing this class might not be for you. There’s a lot of reading, but you definitely don’t need to do it all and you can easily get by without skimming (in fact I recommend it). Overall this class is great and graded leniently. If you are interested in the topic, you should def take this class.

I really enjoyed this class and learned so much about the injustices of capitalism and neoliberalism from professor Kelley! He gave really good lectures and while there was a lot of reading, it was overall a great class! I also had Henry Yang as my TA and he’s great.

While we had a ton of reading, we never had any tests or quizzes lol just a 6-7 page midterm essay, a 5-6 page group final essay (had to co-write it with like 4 people from my discussion), and a final website the entire discussion section worked on together. The material was super interesting too, and I feel like I learned a lot from this class! I took it as a part of my major, but this is a good ge class too if you want credit! Overall I really enjoyed my experience in it

25% midterm essay
25% final group essay
25% discussion section participation
25% final group project

If I had to take a shot every time Robin said the word “capitalism,” I’d be hammered by the 10 minute mark. It really felt like Robin, a self-described “Marxist surrealist feminist who is not just anti something but pro-emancipation, pro-liberation,” tried using this class to tell students that capitalism is to blame for everything wrong in the world. He argued that communal societies, such as Native American societies pre-colonization, were basically heaven on earth. Although we would all be equal in communal societies, he fails to realize that we would all be equally poor! He also doesn’t understand that forcing people to work for “the betterment of society” (working for nothing) kills the drive to innovate and is a form of slavery itself.

The only thing I’m going to say is that the readings he assigned us mostly came from marxists.org.

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I absolutely love Professor Kelley; he's the most engaging lecturer I've ever had. He is very radical and makes very very bold claims to grab attention, and then explains them. Very intriguing, very cool guy. The lectures for this class are an hour and fifteen minutes, and normally I get a little bored, but never during Prof Kelley's lectures. I plan on trying to take all his other classes even if they don't help me with any necessary credit. He doesn't just read off of slides, answers all questions warmly and in depth, and is overall just super cool.
This class is decently easy as long as you do the readings and attend lecture. After week 8 it's really easy because you're done with all the big assignments (besides the final). Weekly readings can be a little overwhelming but you can skim the long ones. Make sure to at least read a few because you have to use them for the final. My TA graded really easily and said all TAs have to go to norming sessions so I assume everyone was graded easily. I would recommend this class just for Prof Kelley!!