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Shira Shafir
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Spring 2020 - This review is for public health 150. She is an amazing professor! At first I was scared to take her because there wasn’t any reviews on the bruinwalk, but now I’m glad I took her! Grades are based on clicker points, a midterm, a 3 page paper, and a non cumulative final. Midterm questions are mostly based on her lecture slides so as long as you study the slides you should be good. This class is kind of on the easy side I guess. I always started studying(from scratch) like two-three days before the midterm/final and was still able to pull an A. The most important thing you should focus is not memorizing the datas , you should focus on the overall objective/concept of the lecture. There wasn’t anything to memorize for this class, if there is, she(or the TAs) will let you know that a particular percentage/statistics would be on the midterm. For the paper, you’ll get a perfect grade as long as you follow the rubric. There is also a super easy 5 point extra credit as well. Overall, this class was interesting and easy!
Spring 2020 - This review is for public health 150. She is an amazing professor! At first I was scared to take her because there wasn’t any reviews on the bruinwalk, but now I’m glad I took her! Grades are based on clicker points, a midterm, a 3 page paper, and a non cumulative final. Midterm questions are mostly based on her lecture slides so as long as you study the slides you should be good. This class is kind of on the easy side I guess. I always started studying(from scratch) like two-three days before the midterm/final and was still able to pull an A. The most important thing you should focus is not memorizing the datas , you should focus on the overall objective/concept of the lecture. There wasn’t anything to memorize for this class, if there is, she(or the TAs) will let you know that a particular percentage/statistics would be on the midterm. For the paper, you’ll get a perfect grade as long as you follow the rubric. There is also a super easy 5 point extra credit as well. Overall, this class was interesting and easy!
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Fall 2024 - This class is a very easy A. Grading scheme is: participation 15%, midterm 30%, op ed assignment 15%, final (not cumulative) 40%. She offers a few easy extra credit points throughout the quarter, as well as an op-ed revision option. Participation consists of 2 discussion posts for each half of the course on a public health topic, and you can get extra credit by posting 1 additional post for each 1/2 of the course. Exams are open note/internet and can be either taken in the lecture hall or proctored with camera on over zoom. There is also no discussion section for this class, even though there is a discussion listed in MyUCLA. Dr. Shafir is very nice, funny, and a great lecturer, but she does fly through slides pretty quickly. She also gave out a couple PTEs for the class. I would recommend at least skimming through the readings, because some (maybe 2-3 per test) exam questions asked specific things from the readings (kind of just like what the main point was from a certain reading; nothing too detailed) that were not mentioned in lecture. Exams were about 45 multiple choice/true or false/matching questions and you had about an hour to take each exam. Conceptually, this class is easy, the workload is low, and exams are extremely fair. I would highly recommend this class if you need an easy A and/or are intersted in public health.
Fall 2024 - This class is a very easy A. Grading scheme is: participation 15%, midterm 30%, op ed assignment 15%, final (not cumulative) 40%. She offers a few easy extra credit points throughout the quarter, as well as an op-ed revision option. Participation consists of 2 discussion posts for each half of the course on a public health topic, and you can get extra credit by posting 1 additional post for each 1/2 of the course. Exams are open note/internet and can be either taken in the lecture hall or proctored with camera on over zoom. There is also no discussion section for this class, even though there is a discussion listed in MyUCLA. Dr. Shafir is very nice, funny, and a great lecturer, but she does fly through slides pretty quickly. She also gave out a couple PTEs for the class. I would recommend at least skimming through the readings, because some (maybe 2-3 per test) exam questions asked specific things from the readings (kind of just like what the main point was from a certain reading; nothing too detailed) that were not mentioned in lecture. Exams were about 45 multiple choice/true or false/matching questions and you had about an hour to take each exam. Conceptually, this class is easy, the workload is low, and exams are extremely fair. I would highly recommend this class if you need an easy A and/or are intersted in public health.
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Fall 2020 - Professor Shafir is honestly the best! The material was very manageable and the tests were not bad either, I believe the average for the midterm was an A-. We had one midterm and a final which is not cumulative. It was open notes and proctored through zoom. You also do not need to attend lectures, but she had live sessions once a week and we would just talk about COVID or topics relating to the lecture for the week which she posts on CCLE. She is very helpful and one of the reasons why I am excited to minor in public health.
Fall 2020 - Professor Shafir is honestly the best! The material was very manageable and the tests were not bad either, I believe the average for the midterm was an A-. We had one midterm and a final which is not cumulative. It was open notes and proctored through zoom. You also do not need to attend lectures, but she had live sessions once a week and we would just talk about COVID or topics relating to the lecture for the week which she posts on CCLE. She is very helpful and one of the reasons why I am excited to minor in public health.
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