<p>I just came back from orientation, and it’s apparently not being offered fall semester. The advisers said that sometimes a professor can’t teach or something like that for various reasons.</p>
<p>I ended up with the grassroots class. If I end up hating it, at least it also satisfies the diversity requirement…</p>
<p>Does the same teacher teach both your category iv class and the corresponding writing class? or is there a different teacher for writing? because my writing teacher isn’t listed on my web registration schedule…</p>
<p>different professors for writing and cat IV.</p>
<p>they only assign AL’s to writ-140 sections right before the semester begins</p>
<p>Does anyone know if you can take the catgory VI GE and WRIT 140 in the spring semester?</p>
<p>Yeah, of course you can, some people can’t fit it fall so they take it spring.</p>
<p>I ended up taking Film, Power, and American History. Does anyone know anything about that class and/or the professor?</p>
<p>How’s Messner as a professor?</p>
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<p>I took this class before. Ross is an interesting professor, though the class can get a bit dry at times since there is a lot of emphasis on early 20th century labor movements. You watch a lot of movies in that class, some more modern hollywood style, some older.</p>
<p>3-4 shorter writing assignments, in-class essay midterm (the TA basically gives away the prompt beforehand), 10-15 page term paper on topic of your choice (related to the class), in-class final (same format as midterm), mandatory attendance in lecture and discussion.</p>
<p>I took it P/NP so I didn’t pay attention to the grading.</p>
<p>I liked it mostly, though, because each of the writ 140 papers involved picking a movie and writing about some social theme in that movie, which I think made the papers a lot more interesting than other people’s writ 140s.</p>
<p>pm me if there are any other questions :)</p>
<p>how’s race and class in la? anyone know?</p>
<p>how is HIST-265 Understanding Race and Sex Historically?</p>
<p>My D took Social Problems (SOCI 150) - she said it was reasonably interesting and an easy A - maybe because the class had a bunch of football players :-)</p>
<p>I highly recommend PHIL 137g if it is offered, “Social Ethics for Earthlings and Others”. Professor Lloyd is from Harvard and she is amazing, plus the class is super fun and we got to watch sci-fi movies half the time!!</p>
<p>how is the law politics and public policy one? anyone?</p>
<p>Definitely recommend SOCI169gm: Changing Family Forms with Dr. Merril Silverstein. Very easy class PLUS you get rid of the diversity req. Professor gets a little boring, but you don’t really have to attend lectures because he posts up slides and says the same thing that’s on them, really. Guest lecturers were extremely interesting because you get to talk about controversial issues in class. I remember there were 2 essays in this class in addition to the essays in WRIT-140, but both of them were super easy, especially if you have a great TA. I believe I turned both of my essays in late and still ended up with a 99% or something in the class. xD You can take JEP as extra credit, which I also did, but ultimately ended up not needing it at all. Dr. Silverstein also offers other extra credit opportunities throughout the semester. There are midterms and a final but they were all pretty easy if you either read the book and didn’t go to class, or did both (read the book and went to class). I felt that the book was incredibly useful, but the classes were not. BUT you still have to go to some of them because there’s a sign-in sheet (or you could have someone forge your signature like I know some people did).</p>