The workload for this class was somewhat heavy because we had to do long readings each week and watch two hour recorded lectures, which took up a lot of time. You also can't decide to not read the assigned readings because there's a possibility you'll get a pop quiz each week. Depending on the pop quizzes given by your specific TA, the questions can be pretty easy but the time preparing for the quiz is not worth it. Throughout the quarter, we got points for writing two papers and a couple papers for the final exam (which was take-home), which were not too difficult. We also had to post a comment about the readings each week on Slack for participation points. There's a textbook required but you can find a free pdf for it online. Overall, the class wasn't difficult, but the weekly readings were just time-consuming.

This class is my favorite class i've ever taken at UCLA! Even though I took it as GE and am not that into art, it got me so interested in indigenous rights, and prof nair and the book you read for class kind of blew my mind. I wouldn't say it's an easy GE, but if you want to learn about history of indigenous people in the americas, common misconceptions about them, and also the natural spaces around them, HIGHLY recommend. I've never written a bruinwalk review but i had to for this class

This class was honestly not bad in terms of GEs. The workload is manageable but there are a lot of readings and films to watch each week, and the TAs do pop quizzes on them in discussion. The Professor Nair is pretty friendly but is unfortunately a rambler and her slides have barely any content on them so you don't have much to go back to. You have to pay a lot of attention in lecture to have notes that make any sense, and the lectures aren't recorded. This is an issue for the final, which was a handwritten essay in bluebook and based only on lecture and reading topics(outside facts and sources would be penalized because of concerns with AI). It wasn't that bad this quarter because she gave us the list of ancient cities that she would test us on a week beforehand. Overall, just don't take this class if you hate reading a ton and writing.

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.

Overall, while I was taking this class I was really stressed out because I felt like I wasn't totally sure about all of the material that I had to know for the class. I attribute this to the lectures because there are no formal slides besides pictures and they are not recorded, so you MUST go to lecture and take detailed notes QUICKLY! Our grades were based off of participation (included reading quizzes and discussion assignments), 2 papers, and the final. There was no official midterm.

The reading is pretty manageable. Some of the textbook reading was dense, but if you read it and understand the broader concepts you'll be fine. The articles are important for the final and I would make sure you can understand the claims that the authors make.

The essays were super chill for me. We were given ~2 weeks to write them, and I met with my TA and went over it and got high grades on them!

For the final, I was honestly stressed because all I had to go on were my notes (which I didn't fully trust lol) but my best piece of advice is to meet with other people and collect all of your notes together. Then I wrote practice outlines and made sure I had them memorized. I also met with Professor Nair multiple times in office hours for clarification which I highly recommend.

Professor Nair is so so sweet, and you can tell that she genuinely cares so much about the information. I would say although this is an art and architecture class, I learned so much about Indigenous Theory and I think that I really do go about my life differently after taking this class. My main pieces of advice for this class are to just really put effort into understanding material and take it seriously. I know for me I was looking for an easy GE (I'm pre-med) and its easy to fall into the trap of putting your GE work to the side to focus on other classes, but you will be successful in this class if you take it seriously. GO TO LECTURE!!! DO THE READINGS!! You'll be okay!

This class was honestly so easy, never did the readings, there were only pop quizzes like 3 times during discussion but they’re only like 5 questions each. The first and final paper of this class were honestly fun to do. I enjoyed having documentaries to watch as homework and enjoyed going to the Fowler museum.

I took this class as a GE. The lectures are pretty boring (professor Nair seems nice overall though) and there is in fact a good amount of reading you have to do each week, but I found it manageable and not even that bad. The overall topics are actually quite interesting and there are really only two major assignments (paper 1 and paper 2 which also has a project component). Both essays are honestly really chill because you get to pick what you write about, and I had such a fun time doing the second paper/project (I wrote it on Genshin Impact - yes, the gacha game). If you get a good TA (mine was absolutely amazing but unfortunately she won't be TA'ing next year), the discussions are really fun and engaging as well. The final was okay (an essay on a random city you learned about + short responses on lecture material), but it sort of banks on you having done some reading and paid some attention to lecture. Overall I wouldn't exactly recommend this class especially if you know you won't do the readings (there's pop quizzes) but if you are at least slightly interested and can do at least one 18-ish page reading a week then it should be a relatively free A.

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.