I agree with some of the other reviewers here when they say that Art His 22 with Wilson is a pretty difficult class overall. However, I think she's a great lecturer who is clearly very knowledgeable and passionate about the subject.
The workload isn't unmanageable overall, with only a single paper due in the first half of the quarter as well as a page of notes to be turned into section each week based on the readings she posts on CCLE. What really does make this class tough though are the exams. The Midterm consists of 2 comparison essays for which you have to memorize a long list of paintings, including the name of the painting, the artist, the context, time period, medium, etc. and write 2 essays about the paintings she displays. The Final is even tougher, including 2 comparison essays as well as 2 other essays, all to be written within a little over 2 hours. The list she gives for the final has 35 paintings on it, all of which need to be studied and memorized, so it can be pretty difficult to prepare for.
The lectures are really interesting though, and I felt as though Professor Wilson was able to get through a huge amount of varying works throughout the 10 weeks. If you have any interest at all in art and don't mind taking a difficult and challenging GE, I would highly recommend taking this class. Just be mindful of the difficult exams, and the fact that the lectures aren't podcasted, so to be successful in the class, you must show up to the lectures or at the very least get notes from someone present.

Professor Wilson is passionate about her teaching. She speaks clearly and her lectures are somewhat interesting regardless if you like art history or not. Attendance in lecture isn't necessary but to have a better understanding for the Midterm and Final, you should definitely go. Honestly, if you put in the effort, this class should be a breeze. My advice: attend lectures, take a good amount of notes, participate in discussion w/ the one paper of notes, and study just a bit. Pretty light. Good luck.

This class is an extremely easy GE if you are looking for something interesting that doesn't take up too much time/effort. The content is really interesting and it gives you a new perspective/some extra background to evaluate artwork in the future. There wasn't a single assignment until about week 4 other than weekly reading (which, in my opinion, isn't necessary because I rarely read them and was fine). There is an essay around week 4, essay around week 6, a research project(fancy essay) starting around week 6, and then two essays for the final in week 10. Your TA grades all of your essays and then it is passed onto a second reader for a second-pass. My TA was super nice and was able to tell me what I could improve on which was SUPER helpful so I definitely recommend reaching out to your TAs.

Pros:
- My TA (Kersten) was very helpful and kind, and discussion sections basically taught me everything.
- Since it's asynchronous, you can always look at lecture material for review.
- Since this was online, it was a bit easier. But I know that for in-person classes, she makes you memorize like 40 paintings.
- There were synchronous review sessions every Thursday (not recorded, though). Honestly I didn't really pay attention, but they seemed to be helpful. HOWEVER, she does assume that you attend them even though they're optional.

Cons:
- Workload is extremely excessive. The amount of reading and writing that you have to do for this class is on par or even more than Writing II classes, and this isn't a Writing II class.
- You have to submit about a page of writing for homework every week, including on weeks with essays due, which gets very difficult -- especially when both the midterm and the final are two 800-1000 word essays.
- Professor Wilson is very boring to listen to and isn't succinct whatsoever. Again, I learned everything through my TA.
- My TA graded harshly and feedback wasn't helpful whatsoever (hence why I P/NP'd).

Pretty heavy weekly workload considering it's a GE, but it is possible to get by without too much trouble if you are doing the bare minimum and have decent writing skills. My TA, Tori Schmitt, was wonderful so that definitely helped.

This class was pretty interesting and easy overall (but I am an art history nerd, so...). There was very little memorization and the midterm and final were in classes essays that were almost completely analysis based. Professor Wilson uses slides, but doesn't really write anything on them so you have to pay attention to her in lecture and take notes. The TA discussion sections didn't always correlate with the lecture--the professor would assign weekly readings/videos which we could then discuss in section with our TA. We had to turn in a page of notes about the readings to our TA as well.

Along with the in-class midterm and final, there were two 2-3 page essays (but they're not too difficult). One essay did require that you go to a museum to look at and write about a piece of art, but the professor was okay if you just found a piece in the approved museum's online gallery.

When enrolling in this class I first thought it would deal with just art while providing some historical background info and that it'd be interesting and relatively easy, because after all it was an art class. Week 2 is when I realized I was going to absolutely dread and dislike this class. The readings were very dense, with the exception of maybe two or three shorter ones, and extremely boring to be honest. Lectures were just as boring and the professor's voice was very hard to listen and pay attention to. We had weekly responses to the readings and lectures due every week before your discussion, so it sucked for anyone who had to read everything early in the week. The midterm and final consisted of two essay comparisons of two separate pair of paintings, which was very annoying and hard to understand what it is they really wanted from us. We were never given examples of what was expected of us until after we had already done the assignments--which didn't make sense to me. This class became the class I absolutely dreaded and spent so much time and lost so much sleep on. I didn't learn a single thing, nor did I find any of the material covered interesting. I somehow managed a B, though I was sure I would barely pass with a C. Overall I didn't like this class at all and I don't think it was worth all the effort and time spent on it for the grade I received,

Professor Wilson is really kind and she is really helpful. Thomas D. was my TA and he was very helpful as well. I do have to agree with the other reviews and say she is a little boring. She just lectures for the whole two hours. If you have a general interest in renaissance and baroque art, this class shouldn't be too terrible. I wouldn't say this is one of the easier GEs, but I really enjoyed the content of this course. Yes, the final was a pain because we had 4 essays but overall the class wasn't too difficult. You don't really need to do the readings to have an understanding of the lecture.

By far, this has to be one of the worst classes I have ever taken. In the beginning, the class was super confusing bc she decided to give the T.a's leniency in deciding the format of these short responses due each week. Don't let the word "short" fool you. While yes, the responses were a total of 300 words, the readings which the responses were on were sometimes up to 50 pages total! As if that wasn't enough, the lectures, which were boring and not in the slightest useful, also had questions at the end which were part of the response. However, given that the T.a's had all the say for these, some T.a's, like mine, asked us only to focus on the readings, which meant we had to read the whole text in order to get our participation points. The readings themselves were super boring and difficult to understand --the one exception being Machiavelli's Prince--so the students who had to focus completely on them, struggled. But, this did mean that if you only had to use readings in your responses you could, and should as it as a big time saver, completely ignore the lectures which many students did.

The tests which were a midterm and final had the same structure as each other. Both were comparisons of two artworks of her choosing from the 50 or so that are the lectures. Luckily, since everything Is recorded and the fact that she gave us a week to do them, when the test comes out, you can just scroll through the lectures were she talks about the paintings and ignore everything else. I did this for both tests and got an A- on my midterm and a B+ on my final, despite her still giving out readings during test weeks, which by the way, were the longest ones in the class! Ignoring the lectures, if you are fortunate enough to get a T.a who only asks you to focus on the readings, is the best thing you could do as it just saves you so much time.

We had two other assignments due which were not as difficult as the tests. One was a visual analysis on a work. To sum up the visuals analysis, the goal is to describe a work as completely as possible using terms from the class in about 500 words. Write everything you see even if it does not seem important. The next assignment is based on the work you picked. It is a research project or "proposal" as she says. This assignment purely depends on your work and how 'famous' it is. The more well known the work you have, the easier it is for you to find your sources. The structure was a powerpoint that included a title page, a refined version of your visual analysis, three research questions, and three works similar to the one you chose.

I do not know if it was her idea or the T.a's but someone was generous enough to offer extra credit in the form of a self portrait in which you would take a photo of yourself that looks similar to the one you chose, although it only counted for about the same as one of the weekly responses.

In sum, do not take this class, especially if you just want to fulfill a G.E. this class is not worth the stress and sleep loss that comes with it. Even if you really enjoy the subject, I suggest you still try and look for something else. To those poor people who have to take it for one reason or another, I hope you get through it.

Professor Wilson is one of the most engaging professor I have had at UCLA. She is really passionate about art history, and that shows when she lectures. She speaks clearly, interacts with students throughout lecture, is and is very organized. All exams in the class were writing based, and were not difficult as long as you understand the facts of each artifact. There were both take - home and in - class portions of the exams, and all were writing based. In discussion, you do small worksheets/assignments that are all very easy. Participation is required in discussion. As long as you say something thoughtful about the artworks/readings, you'll be fine and should receive full participation points. Overall, a pretty easy and very interesting GE taught by an amazing professor.