She was not bad. Her lectures were sometimes interesting and other times were not. Exams were more focused on the lecture slides than in the book readings. Memorize the slides and you are guaranteed a B for sure. Do the readings and there's your A. She cancelled 4 of the lectures, 2 of them without previos notice. She cares about students and she is a very nice professor overall. Extremely unorganized though, you will notice that from day one. I do recommend her.

Prof Taub is very nice, but sooooo disorganized. I did well in the class, but only because my friend and i crammed before the test. She gives you a bunch of wikipedia facts then gives test that are essay based. She doesn't go over anything really in class. The class is somewhat interesting.
I ACTUALLY TOOK INFORMATION AREA STUDIES 50

IA STD 50
B+
I went to her office hour and waited for 50 minutes before she came...

Don't take her

If you HAVE to take this class, make sure take it with lots of friends and divide up the reading and study together because it's a lot of reading and books to buy.

132 was one of the hardest class to take. I am a neuroscience major taking this class for fun, but the material was downright boring, extensive, and unneccessary. Taub is dry, not funny, and simply needs to retire. AVOID THIS CLASS and take it with another professor. I received a B- in the class

cant say that it was the most interesting class ive taken, but it was definitely one of the most laid back classes i have had. i never really stressed out about it. the material was easy if u just memorize all the slides and slightly pay attention in lecture, mostly to her lectures since the guest lecturers were sometimes boring and we werent as heavily tested on them. this class can either get u a really good grade or a really bad one. dont think its easy enough to just not study because u MUST memorize everything if u want to tackle her test, which isnt hard since the material itself is easy and very understandable. much of it is common sense just talking about poverty and how it affects peoples health. u do need the books because she will ask some questions about specific studies from the books but she will tell you what they are on her study guides..etc.

Hard Class and Hard curve. Professor was super boring and dry. DO NOT TAKE! THE ABOVE CURVE IS NOT TRUE!

IA STD 50
B+
Worst.
She is nice. But she was gone for 3 weeks and gave us midterm on week 6 saying "not all the things we covered in the class will be on the midterm."
One thing we did do in class a lot was watch documentaries which we were tested on.
WTF
She is extremely unorganized.
Her powerpoints slides are just sad.
She didn't even let us know our midterm grades until the final grades came out... so we didn't know how well we did on the midterm until we got our final grade.

Don't take any class with Bonnie.

Prof. Taub is a wonderful lecturer. She organizes a lot of guest lecturers to come in and talk about the health issues that are usually overlooked in your Daily Bruin. She's very concerned about student learning, approachable for office hours, and cares about her students. Don't slack in this class, you'll be missing out on interesting lectures and dialogues. Midterm paper isn't bad, and the getting the general concept of major health issues and important names will help you for the final. Visit her office and appreciate how much knowledge/kindness she has to offer.

I loved prof Taub. She is such a nice and caring professor, something which I find rare at UCLA. She really wants her students to learn the material, and she makes it very easy to enjoy learning it. Though the class is 3 hours, we normally got out after 2 hrs and 15 min. There are a lot of guest lecturers, but most of them are pretty interesting and they bring a lot of diversity to the class. The class is pretty easy, but I still ended up learning a ton. I would definitely recommend both her and the class.

I ACTUALLY Took IA STD 50 back in winter. Dr. Taub is very knowledgable about Latin America. She assigned a lot of readings but most of them are fun to read. We end up reading three novels (little school, one hundred years of solitude, I Rigoberta Menchu:an Indian woman in Guatemala) and a textbook. Good thing is, lectures were fun (but not really well organized). Dr. Taub is very concerned about her students and is willing to help out of the class. Bad thing is, you have to put much work in the class (a lot of things to memorize). I ended up with a A- (messed up the midterm).
But still, you'll learn a lot from ONE OF THE BEST PROFESSORS IN UCLA