I love Professor Nair, she is clearly very passionate about what she teaches and really just wants students to succeed. This was the third class i've taken with her and she does preface every class that it will be reading heavy - which it definitely is. But if you do the readings and take good notes it's hard to not do well. Not an easy A but very doable.

This was an interesting GE. Appropriate workload for a GE and no background knowledge in the subject was needed to do well. Understanding and thoroughly doing the reading was necessary to do well on the in class quizzes but as long as you did the reading they were a boost to your grade. Discussion sections were also very helpful in understanding and remembering the material. Lots of guest lecturers and films shown in lecture which kept it interesting. I took it my first quarter at UCLA and still got an A. , I would like to sell the book needed for this class at a low price, contact me at ********** if you're interested.

Nair gives really engaging and interesting lectures. She shows a lot of entertaining and educational movies, and discussion sections really help apply it to real life. Easy class but still very important. Everyone should take it.

I would not recommend this class at all to anyone looking for an easy, interesting GE. The professor's lectures are disengaging as her slides have no text, making it difficult to keep up with what she says. The readings are very long and tedious, but are essentially required as there are random quizzes in lecture along with quizzes in discussion based on images shown in one of the previous lectures. The midterm and final weren't too bad since Nair gave out 6 possible essay prompts from which she would choose 2, although each prompt had several questions that needed to be answered in our essays. Overall, this class was not my favorite and I would stay away from it as much as possible.

Trust me. DONT TAKE THIS BS CLASS. Way too harsh of grading on exams, quiz in lectures with no makeup, the material is taught in typical dry slideshows, TA's in the back of the lecture hall watching peoples computers and will approach you for doing anything other than taking notes. If I haven't already convinced you to avoid this class then let me tell you about the exams. In the hour and fifteen minutes given for the midterm, you are required to answer two essay questions. Each question is comprised of at least 10 sub questions. IT IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO ANSWER ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS within the given amount of time. You will be marked down if you do not hit all of them well enough and its not just two or three measly points, I hadn't gone into enough detail on ONE of the questions and got a D on the essay. Save yourself the time, stress, energy, and grade by not taking this class.