If you are looking for an Easy A, this is not it. The best way I can describe this class is that it was like trying to build an IKEA dresser without instructions. It was intensely frustrating and would have been a lot more efficient with more guidance, tools, and instructions. In the end, after cobbling together my best effort, I feel like I've gained something, but I'm not entirely sure what.

The group project component was exhausting. Were it not for the already infuriating and devastating events of 2020, I would've found it even worse. With a couple of classes on Tableau and no classes on HTML, CSS, or Javascript, we were expected to draw upon the limited explanations in lectures to produce a working final project. Unless you already have some knowledge of data visualization and analysis, this class will be a demanding one.

I think the instructors clearly have experience in their fields. Professor Garcia is a very compassionate and articulate professor, and she is very in tune with students' needs. She welcomes everyone to reach out to her and ask for help. Our TAs were also very skilled and helped with a lot of tasks. I think the course altogether could have benefited from a greater emphasis on the "how" of Digital Humanities rather than the "why." Perhaps in previous quarters, this class was a cop out, but now it is a lot more rigorous. Be careful.

Best professor I have had at UCLA hands down. Professor Garcia cares so much about her students and will do everything she can to make the course as easy as possible for everyone, while ensuring that you get something useful out of it. You work on an amazing group project and the TA's are super helpful as well. The class itself is very interesting and in terms of exams/quizzes is very easy. The main part of the class is the group project, and as long as you have a good group and do your part of the work, you should be fine!

I have had Professor Garcia for other DH classes after and she is just an amazing human being! I highly recommend any class with her!

This class is hard to judge remotely as as a previous reviewer stated it doesn't work incredibly well solely online. There isn't a ton of incentive to attend lecture and discussion after a while because the group project (which makes up most of your grade) can be accomplished without them.

This class is the embodiment of the phrase "you get what you put in," because in theory, you could gain a few marketable skills (Tableau, Excel, etc.) if you put in the time. In practice, however, the incentives aren't there to do this and most students put in the bare minimum.

The professor was really nice and clearly loves what she does. Ruth Livier was an awesome TA who always brought a cheery personality to what was otherwise a fairly dismal time (coronavirus). She really cared about us and was always free to answer questions or give feedback.

I hope they stop doing this class asynchronously. The lectures seemed so irrelevant to the group project it just makes it a hassle to do work for both and not have classtime for the project. It's a class where you can get an A for mediocre work but group projects are with people who don't care and don't want to try. It's just not worth the effort. Theres pretty much no dedicated attention to the group project in class or lab, even the class assignments aren't that helpful. You'd have to go to the TA directly like during lab breakout room/approach them or go to office hours. They don't really check in or clarify their expectations well.

This is an easy A class. The professor does not really teach I think, but the TAs are most likely your teachers. The TAs really care of their students. Some say they learn not much in this course, but I think this is a very practical course depending on your role for the final project. It was really fun to figure out how to manage your dataset to make good visualization. Making a website was also fun. As long as you do all your work, getting a grade below an A is impossible, I think.

I can't recommend this class and Dr. Sanders strongly enough. She is so brilliant and SO approachable and so clearly wants to see you succeed. The topic was intimidating to me at first but seriously she makes it so manageable. Unbelievably kind and flexible with deadlines and personal conflicts. 1000/10 professor. would take literally any class with her ever

I took Dr. Sanders Garcia’s Introduction to Digital Humanities course in Fall 2020 when it was online. The course consisted of individual learning activities, team assignments, and final projects. We also had a final exam which consisted of short response questions. One takeaway I had from the class was definitely the text on intersectionality. My favorite part of the course was learning how to use Excel and Google Sheets to clean data because of how practical it was. I also left this class with a basic understanding of Tableau but not confident enough to put it on my resume. My least favorite experience in the course was the group project, where we were assigned our group members. In light of the pandemic, I tried very hard to be empathetic to my group members, but they were not very great communicators and some of them contributed nothing to the project. Although some of my group members came through at the end, I spent the first 9 weeks of the quarter anxious about trying to visualize data, edit a website, and develop a narrative mostly by myself. On the contrary, my TA, Ruth Livier Nunez, was really the highlight of the course. She was very supportive, accommodating, and knowledgeable, and I enjoyed meeting with her for office hours. The basic data cleaning and visualization skills I learned in this class also helped me earn a position as a research assistant, and the work I do as a research assistant is actually very similar to the work I did in this class. As for Dr. Sanders Garcia, I felt like it was understandably difficult to connect with her. I did appreciate how she opened herself up for office hours. Overall, this class is definitely more of a self-teach class. Your group can really make or break your experience like it did for me, but the skills you can gain are undoubtedly beneficial and applicable to many professional avenues.

Professor Sanders is great! This classes was a hybrid (lecture online/lab in-person) and the way she designed the canvas shell was amazing. Super organized and you always knew exactly what you needed to do. The entire class was based on a quarter long group project with a group you get put in around week 2 based on common interests. This class not only teaches you technical skills like data visualizations, working with data, creating a website, ect., but also you will learn how to effectively work in a group and manage tasks. While I feel like I learned a lot through working with a group, I do wish there was a bit more focus on individual skill development and not just group work.

Dr. Sanders and my TA Elizabeth were awesome. Both were super supportive and receptive to feedback. Their feedback on assignments and their help with the project was great, and I think they both did an excellent job with the hybrid quarter.

As other reviewers mentioned, the course introduces you to a lot of different digital humanities tools. However, there is no incentive to learn these tools outside of the ones required for the project, and even then the work's divided among your group so you may not ever end up using some of the tools regardless. If you invest time and follow all of their tutorials, you'll get a lot of experience from this class. However, you can skip 60-80% of the content in this class and still receive an A.

The group project is a large chunk of your grade, and your experience with that is dependent on your groupmates.

Professor Sanders and also my TA Elizabeth were amazing. They were super understanding the entire quarter because of covid, and were always very generous with deadlines and office hours. The content of this course wasn't too bad.

But I really didn't enjoy the course overall. At first I thought it would be a fun redemption chance because I did pretty much the same class in college, but alone. When I found out it was basically the same thing, create a whole data project, but with a team, I thought, yes! I can redo it and create something bigger than I can do by myself by working with others.

Reframe that as a giant quarter-long group project and if you don't rng motivated teammates you're having a bad time. It's just a little too much with too much freedom and too few templates to do in one quarter. We learned about all these tools and there was so much support for us to learn how to use different applications that could help us with our project. But it was more of a like, if you want to spend the time going through this tutorial yourself, you can learn this tool. And here is the tutorial for this tool, but it's not required. So it felt like there was more material available to me than I had the time to actually go in and learn, so it felt like a waste that I wasn't able to get everything out of this class. Instead I was going around trying to pick up all the pieces that my teammates didn't do for our project.

I was also the only DH minor in my group, so of course I was going to take and enjoy this class, but my groupmates were just trying to pass. Hope you get other DH minors who are motivated too.