Professor Vesna has little control of her class. After about week 3 she only attended one of our weekly lectures, leaving it up to her TAs to lecture or making us listen to her podcasts. The content of the class inspired little creativity. Everything graded in the class was HIGLY SUBJECTIVE - left up to how the TAs felt about you. My TA was Joanna Cheung. This woman had no confidence, motivation, and was Professor Vesna's only TA to have a pathetic resume (the others were models and physics scientists, or were at least into making creative products). What's more, Cheung would show up at least 15 minutes late to every discussion (once missing an entire discussion without noticing because she had a conference). Cheung is the ONLY SUBJECTIVE TA I have had at UCLA, she grades on (1) your personal beauty, (2) how well you can ignore her excuses for not caring about the class, (3) how much you can exaggerate your appreciation of the pathetic pictures she shows you in discussion without any explanation how it connects to the week's topic. I expressed these concerns to Professor Vesna off the bat. She said she'd investigate it, but Cheung only got worst. Professor Vesna has NO CONTROL over her class, or gives any instructions. This is why her TA Cheung resorted to grading in the most Neanderthal-mode of grading: her feelings.

The class is boring; Vesna is an incredibly un-compelling speaker. The class is a hodgepodge of stuff that Vesna thinks is cool. There is never anything rigorous; never are students actually asked to relate science to art, since the blogs only require you to go on Google and find something cool related to the topic of the week. For the projects, you need to invent something cool (see a theme developing here?)

The projects are insanely easy both because the TAs grade them pretty easily and because half the class comes up with terrible ideas (for example, the guy whose project "proposal" was to make iPads. Seriously?)

The most annoying part of the class was that Vesna does not know how to assign work. Many times, she would mention an assignment three different times and each time it had different requirements; it was up to the TAs to figure out what she wanted and explain it to us. Same with her being gone half the time: We presented our midterms in class, but she didn't attend. It was all run by the TAs.

My TA, Tiffany, was really good but unfortunately the entirety of section was spent sorting out what we were supposed to be doing for Vesna because she is unable to keep track of what she has assigned or what is on the syllabus.

As others have said, this is an excellent class if you're looking for an A in a GE. I'm not sure how I could have gotten below an A other than by not turning anything in. Be ready to write a bunch of blogs, though, and try not to fall asleep when Vesna lectures.

Anyone who needs to fulfill an Visual Art G.E. should definitely take this class! Although you have no idea what the professor is talking about but it doesn't even matter!

Every week Professor Vesna lectures about a new topic and the students will have to blog about it and post it. But what I did with the blog is search on Google to look for related articles about that week's topic and basically write a 500 word blog about it. It is really simple!

There are also weekly readings but you don't even need to read it because your T.A. will most likely talk about it in discussion.

For midterm, there is 10 slide powerpoint project and a blog about what we learned for the past 4 weeks. For the Powerpoint you basically think of some innovative idea/creation and explain in your powerpoint how you will create it. For example I designed an "Artifical Womb" which got me like an A.

For final, it is another powerpoint project with just 1 or 2 more slides. The TAs' allow us to expand on our midterm projects but I recommend to think of new idea. I bs-ed my final too and got another A

Attendance is part of the grade, all you do is sign in after class or during break. (Usually, whenever the attendance guy decides to put up the sign-in papers in front of the lecture)If you sign in during break, then it is your choice to leave or stay for the rest of the lecture.

EXTRA CREDIT- Professor Vesna gives out tons of extra credit and you can do up to 5 of them and receive 10% boost towards your final grade. So basically the extra credit will raise a letter grade for you! To do the extra credit all you have to do is attend the extra credit exhibits/lectures and blog 500 words about it.

If you follow every step here, you will most likely get an A+ like me.

When I read the course description, I was very interested in the topics we were supposedly going to talk about. Little did I know, this class would end up being the biggest waste of my life and money. This class is a joke as far as difficulty, but also as far as content. If you want to get a really easy "A," but also waste 5 hours of your time every week, do pointless online assignments, and bullshit two projects, take this class.