This is my favorite class that I have taken at UCLA thus far. Professor Anderson is always very engaging and genuinely wants her students to learn and be active global citizens. Every lecture was inspiring and convinced me to look at the world in a different way. I originally took this class as just a GE, but am now considering adding sociology as another major because of how amazing of a professor she is.

Her class had no final and instead was 5 papers and 5 pop quizzes. If you are a strong writer/prefer writing to tests, then this is definitely a good class for you. Along with every paper, there is a rubic that tells you exactly how the paper will be graded. The quizzes seem very specific, but if you do the reading, they're pretty manageable. Plus, she drops the worst score. Every lecture is posted online so that you can go back and refer to the slides after class.

On top of Anderson being an amazing professor, my TA Alex was also amazing and really added more meaning to the class. She would hold discussions that further discussed the material we learned and would help us with all of our papers. She was very assessable during her office hours and was easy to talk to.

Overall, I would highly recommend this class, especially if you enjoy seeing and understanding the world in new and different ways.

This class is a lot of work but if you keep up with readings and ask questions in discussion you will be fine! I'm a junior and still pull from/remember material from this class for other comm major courses.

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This class is NOT easy. My grade actually really surprised me. I think my TA was just nice, because I didn't participate during discussions (I was always lost), and participation is a reasonable chunk of your grade. The pop quizzes really sucked. Classes were boring, but there were admittedly a few interesting topics. The workload was really heavy: lots of readings, lots of writing. I wouldn't say that this class should be your first choice, but if you find yourself doing it, it shouldn't be that bad.

If you're looking for an easy GE, don't take this class!!! it was a ridiculous amount of reading- sometimes 200 pages assigned on Tuesday due Thursday. To make it work, her pop quizzes are extremely specific and even if you do read you will still probably fail them. Her lectures are the same as the reading, so it's pretty boring listening to the information you just killed yourself reading. The essay topics are very difficult and, depending on the TA, hard to do well on. The material was arguably interesting, but ruined by the stress of reading and pop quizzes.

If you are reading this while trying to find an easy GE it is not too late to run away. THIS IS NOT THE CLASS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR!!! This class is not only extremely boring, but it is a lot of reading and has pop quizzes that are very specific. Also, she makes Bernie Sanders' political beliefs look like Donald Trump's and she will shove these beliefs down your throat.

If you ignore my warnings and take this class anyways, try to get Justin Kumar as your TA. He's extremely helpful and a very nice guy.

Okay, so the professor has boring lectures, but the facts are really interesting if you can get past the monotone in her voice. This class was really interesting, but there is a lot of reading. I did not do the readings, and I still passed the class with a B. She gives out five quizzes randomly throughout the quarter. They're only ten questions but they're on everything so far up to that date, so it's all fair game. Only three out of the five are taken to go towards your score, so it's your three best scores. I did poorly on all of them and didn't show up for one, and that's why I ended up with a B. There are two essays that are worth a lot, but if you go to discussion the TAs will help outline what you need to do to get a good grade on the paper. There are about four books for the class with several readings a week, so if you know how to manage your time to read them all you'll do fine in this class. Definitely not a lot of memorizing, but a lot of comprehension of the summation of the works.

Anderson is awesome, super engaging and the lectures usually reference something that's going on in the real world. She's super relatable and asks the class questions in every class. She can be a savage and call people out if they say something stupid. However there's a ton of reading; there's 4 books, one of which she wanted us to finish in about a week that was just fiction that related to some aspects of the lecture. The course reader has long articles with tiny font, usually with two pages per page, and there are pop quizzes about every two weeks on this reading with pretty specific questions. You also have to write a journal and cite two resources every week or two, and the exams are just essays. No multiple choice.

The concepts themselves were super interesting and topics that people our age should really be learning about, and Anderson had engaging lectures and even activities/experiments for us and movies. If you can bear the reading, absolutely take this course