This was probably my favorite class I've taken at UCLA so far! The content is super interesting and the professor is great and makes the material easy to understand. The syllabus may seem quite overwhelming at first, but once you get the hang of things you'll realize how easy it is to do well in this course. Homework consists of watching pre-lecture videos and answering short questions on them (for participation credit). Lectures are recorded and he posts the slides on Canvas beforehand. Attendance in lecture is not required, but there are polleverywhere questions (like clicker Q's) for participation credit, but I honestly didn't even go to lecture most days and just answered the questions from home. There were 3 midterms (19 multiple choice questions, 2 reflection papers (you only need to do these if you get less than 17/19 on M1 and M2), 1 disparities paper (2 pages max), and a final. You have the entire lecture time (1hr 15) to finish the midterm, but most people finish in ~30 minutes. Also, if you pass the 3 midterms you don't have to take the final. There are tons of extra credit opportunities as well! I highly recommend this class!

This was definitely the easiest class of my four classes this quarter. A lot of the reviews here about his weird grading system scared me when I first enrolled. However, I'm here to say that the grading system is not bad at all. In fact, it works well to your advantage and makes the class a lot easier. You only have to score 75% of three out of the four exams, and you can use one of his tokens to add a point to any of these exams. There is literally no advantage to you if you score higher than that, accept that if you score higher than 80-something percent on either of the first two exams you can skip writing one of the reflection papers.

The material covered in class is definitely interesting. It's extremely manageable and a lot less material per lecture than any of the other psych classes I was taking at the same time (115, 127B). He has online modules that also cover a lot of the same material and are supplementary to the lectures, which are nice cause they're asynchronous and you can just do them real quick before each exam.

The disparities paper is the one at the end that determines if you get an A-, A or A+. Its only really two pages long though, and if you don't pass it you can resubmit it for one of his tokens. Also, I didn't agree with the grading on mine and I talked to him on office hours and he revised some things so he's extremely accommodating and nice in that way.

Overall, definitely recommend taking this class, especially alongside a more packed class like 115.