Professor
Sarah Stein
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Summer 2025 - I would 100% recommend taking this as a GE. It was actually interesting material to learn about. The expectations weren't completely clear in the beginning but once you get a hold of things its super easy to get an A in the class. There are 2 writing questions every week and every other week one of them is an essay, with the second one being the midterm and the third being the final. It was a bit time consuming, but not terrible. My TA Avery was amazing, very quick to help and respond. Overall I would recommend this class as an easy A that you actually want to learn about.
Summer 2025 - I would 100% recommend taking this as a GE. It was actually interesting material to learn about. The expectations weren't completely clear in the beginning but once you get a hold of things its super easy to get an A in the class. There are 2 writing questions every week and every other week one of them is an essay, with the second one being the midterm and the third being the final. It was a bit time consuming, but not terrible. My TA Avery was amazing, very quick to help and respond. Overall I would recommend this class as an easy A that you actually want to learn about.
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Fall 2019 - Professor Stein is one of the best lecturers I've had at UCLA! Her class is extremely engaging and she always manages to link the objects to broader concepts that are useful to understand modern times. Besides the content being super interesting, the readings help to understand different perspectives and add a lot to your general knowledge. There are 2 papers, the midterm is a scavenger hunt and one final. Highly recommend this class to anyone!
Fall 2019 - Professor Stein is one of the best lecturers I've had at UCLA! Her class is extremely engaging and she always manages to link the objects to broader concepts that are useful to understand modern times. Besides the content being super interesting, the readings help to understand different perspectives and add a lot to your general knowledge. There are 2 papers, the midterm is a scavenger hunt and one final. Highly recommend this class to anyone!
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Fall 2019 - I honestly think this was the most interesting history course I've taken, simply because of how Stein laid out the class. Instead of focusing on dates and events, she would focus on an object and then give all the cultural history relating to this object (rubber, bananas, plastic, etc.). For someone who doesn't normally like history it was very enjoyable, but she does speak pretty quickly and I always felt like I needed to take lots of notes as quickly as I could because there is no textbook; your notes are your main study tool. If you keep up with notes and actually listen, the quizzes and discussions are pretty easy. Midterm and final do definitely require some studying because there's a lot of content, but Stein is super chill and allowed us a cheat sheet to bring with us.
Fall 2019 - I honestly think this was the most interesting history course I've taken, simply because of how Stein laid out the class. Instead of focusing on dates and events, she would focus on an object and then give all the cultural history relating to this object (rubber, bananas, plastic, etc.). For someone who doesn't normally like history it was very enjoyable, but she does speak pretty quickly and I always felt like I needed to take lots of notes as quickly as I could because there is no textbook; your notes are your main study tool. If you keep up with notes and actually listen, the quizzes and discussions are pretty easy. Midterm and final do definitely require some studying because there's a lot of content, but Stein is super chill and allowed us a cheat sheet to bring with us.
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