Overall it's an amazing class. Prof Stein's lectures are amazing and I also loved the book she wrote that we read. The breakdown of work is as follows: two discussion posts per week (2-3 paragraphs each); two essays (5 pages-ish each); a midterm activity (super easy - basically graded on completeness); and two discussion-post like things for the final. There is a LOTTTT of reading. However, I found most of the books very engaging and you can probably get away with not reading everything super in-depth like I did. I didn't take notes on readings, but I did on the lectures.

This was an amazing class and Professor Stein did a great job putting it together. I took it during the summer asynchronously, and learned a lot.
The class consists of lectures and readings each week. Every Friday one or two discussion posts were required, depending on if an essay was also due that day. The essays were due every two weeks, for a total of three for the six week course. The first two essays were 500-750 words, while the last was 800-1000 words. There were two prompts to choose from each time, and they were very straightforward.
The lectures were extremely informative and high quality. Professor Stein is a great lecturer, and very knowledgeable about the subject.
The readings were primary sources, as well as two books and the graphic novels Maus I and Maus II. All were very interesting, and covered some unique aspect of the Holocaust.
I would highly recommend taking this class, either for a GE or a major/minor requirement. It's one of the best classes I've taken at UCLA.

Very Good class. I enjoyed it very much. Selling all books except Maus for 30 bucks together. Contact if interested *************

This class was kinda hard and had a heavy workload, despite my grade. Also your grade depends on your TA heavily. I had Marissa and she is so kind. The workload was insane when I took it. I remember we had to write 2 mini essays (page and a half each) weekly based on longgggg, sometimes hard to understand, readings (sometimes on an entire book!) for the discussion board. We also had to write two 5 page papers that were pretty tough questions. We also had three lectures per week, and sometimes there were not short. The final was also answering some short answer questions I believe, which wasn't horrible, but again it was if your TA was a harsh grader. The easiest part was the midterm, where we did an online activity, such as watch a holocaust survivor share their story and write about it. It was really interesting, but the work load was intense and the information was dense and emotional. You can only do well if you focus a lot of time to this class.