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Stephanie Pincetl
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Fall 2025 - This class with Pincetl is an easy A and honestly pretty engaging. Her lectures are recorded and she posts the slides, but at least once a week she takes attendance, but she doesn't tell you what day she's gonna take attendance, so I'd plan on going every day. Super interesting class on how energy operates in our society today, and because of that it's a tech free class, so make sure to buy a notebook. There were no midterms or finals, just group projects and essays. All of which were super easy. As long as you can demonstrate to her that you are able to reference the class and use that in your argument, you'll get full credit on your stuff. Highly recommend for an easy and interesting upper div.
Fall 2025 - This class with Pincetl is an easy A and honestly pretty engaging. Her lectures are recorded and she posts the slides, but at least once a week she takes attendance, but she doesn't tell you what day she's gonna take attendance, so I'd plan on going every day. Super interesting class on how energy operates in our society today, and because of that it's a tech free class, so make sure to buy a notebook. There were no midterms or finals, just group projects and essays. All of which were super easy. As long as you can demonstrate to her that you are able to reference the class and use that in your argument, you'll get full credit on your stuff. Highly recommend for an easy and interesting upper div.
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Course Taken: Environmental M164 - Environmental Politics and Governance Pincetl was a pretty good professor, although the class gets very tiring since it meets for 3 hrs, once a week. People got bored in lecture a lot, but I found her notes very well-organized, structured, and eloquent. She doesn't post much online, only some readings. So, if you want notes, you have to go to class and take them yourself. The class was composed of: 2 quizzes, 1 paper, and 1 take-home final. The quizzes were easy, if you did the readings. It's open notes, open book during the quizzes. The paper was graded very leniently. We just had to go to an environmental agency hearing and write a reflection on that. The take-home final was way harder than anything she gave, but it was a fair take-home final. It was long compared to the rest of the stuff we did in class, but pretty typical compared to other upper division classes. I learned quite a bit in class, and it was surprisingly interesting.
Course Taken: Environmental M164 - Environmental Politics and Governance Pincetl was a pretty good professor, although the class gets very tiring since it meets for 3 hrs, once a week. People got bored in lecture a lot, but I found her notes very well-organized, structured, and eloquent. She doesn't post much online, only some readings. So, if you want notes, you have to go to class and take them yourself. The class was composed of: 2 quizzes, 1 paper, and 1 take-home final. The quizzes were easy, if you did the readings. It's open notes, open book during the quizzes. The paper was graded very leniently. We just had to go to an environmental agency hearing and write a reflection on that. The take-home final was way harder than anything she gave, but it was a fair take-home final. It was long compared to the rest of the stuff we did in class, but pretty typical compared to other upper division classes. I learned quite a bit in class, and it was surprisingly interesting.
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Fall 2023 - I enjoyed this course. Every week there are two speakers who come to lecture and speak about Sustainability at UCLA, Sustainability as Students, Sustainability in Creative Fields, Food Sustainability, Transportation, Energy, Conservation, Environmental Justice, and Green Consumerism. We have to fill out a quick survey to ask questions for the speakers before class, and write a 150-word reflection after class. Attendance is required. Most of the speakers were great. None were bad. There's no OH or discussion or anything. It's just a P/NP class. You can miss up to 10 "points" which adds up to be like only one reflection that you can miss so make sure you go to every lecture and write the reflections in order to pass the class. You also have a Week 8 Project that is required to pass the class which was just writing a reflection on a documentary or doing some other sustainability project. There's no final. Overall, just go to lectures and write your reflections! It's pretty straightforward. I enjoyed this class and would take it again. the only thing I would change is to have only one speaker every week as the two hour lectures are a but long and to make it... not run by students.
Fall 2023 - I enjoyed this course. Every week there are two speakers who come to lecture and speak about Sustainability at UCLA, Sustainability as Students, Sustainability in Creative Fields, Food Sustainability, Transportation, Energy, Conservation, Environmental Justice, and Green Consumerism. We have to fill out a quick survey to ask questions for the speakers before class, and write a 150-word reflection after class. Attendance is required. Most of the speakers were great. None were bad. There's no OH or discussion or anything. It's just a P/NP class. You can miss up to 10 "points" which adds up to be like only one reflection that you can miss so make sure you go to every lecture and write the reflections in order to pass the class. You also have a Week 8 Project that is required to pass the class which was just writing a reflection on a documentary or doing some other sustainability project. There's no final. Overall, just go to lectures and write your reflections! It's pretty straightforward. I enjoyed this class and would take it again. the only thing I would change is to have only one speaker every week as the two hour lectures are a but long and to make it... not run by students.
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