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Christopher Mott
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The best professor I've had at UCLA. I'm a south campus student, and was expecting something awful, but this turned out to be one of the best classes I've taken. He taught this class without a TA and he really helped out all students with their writing, formation of thesis and analysis of literature. He grades fairly and pushes students to be better analytical writers--if they want it. Mott's a really likable guy, his office hours usually has students throughout the quarter.
The best professor I've had at UCLA. I'm a south campus student, and was expecting something awful, but this turned out to be one of the best classes I've taken. He taught this class without a TA and he really helped out all students with their writing, formation of thesis and analysis of literature. He grades fairly and pushes students to be better analytical writers--if they want it. Mott's a really likable guy, his office hours usually has students throughout the quarter.
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Fall 2020 - TLDR: Great class, lots of social interaction and fairly easy overall With online school it's tough to be social, but Mott wanted to change that. He did a number of things to facilitate social interaction. *Cut the lectures short by 15 min to give people time to talk to each other before their next class *Gave group work assignments every week *Engaged with a student at the start of every class, asking them about their country/ zoom background/ their day *Told people to come to office hours if they just wanted to casually talk I really appreciated all this because Mott and my TA Rebecca are the only instructors I connected with this quarter. The coursework was different since the quarter was online: As far as the work of the class goes for every novel you had to write a paragraph or so linking a passage in the novel to a social issue in the world. There would also be weekly group work to combine the ideas each person wrote in the previous assignment into a group hypothesis. These assignments were graded solely on participation so it was never something I stressed about. There are no tests for the class. Instead your midterm 1 is an essay and midterm 2 is an outline of an essay. Mott pushed the due date for both of these back by 3 days the week it was due and it seemed like he and the TAs were very willing to give extensions. The final was a presentation diving into one of the objects found in the novel. It was pretty easy and interesting The only thing I didn't like is that sometimes Mott would lose me during his presentations. He's super fun and interesting up until he puts up a Powerpoint. Also pray that one of your TAs knows how tech because Mott does not
Fall 2020 - TLDR: Great class, lots of social interaction and fairly easy overall With online school it's tough to be social, but Mott wanted to change that. He did a number of things to facilitate social interaction. *Cut the lectures short by 15 min to give people time to talk to each other before their next class *Gave group work assignments every week *Engaged with a student at the start of every class, asking them about their country/ zoom background/ their day *Told people to come to office hours if they just wanted to casually talk I really appreciated all this because Mott and my TA Rebecca are the only instructors I connected with this quarter. The coursework was different since the quarter was online: As far as the work of the class goes for every novel you had to write a paragraph or so linking a passage in the novel to a social issue in the world. There would also be weekly group work to combine the ideas each person wrote in the previous assignment into a group hypothesis. These assignments were graded solely on participation so it was never something I stressed about. There are no tests for the class. Instead your midterm 1 is an essay and midterm 2 is an outline of an essay. Mott pushed the due date for both of these back by 3 days the week it was due and it seemed like he and the TAs were very willing to give extensions. The final was a presentation diving into one of the objects found in the novel. It was pretty easy and interesting The only thing I didn't like is that sometimes Mott would lose me during his presentations. He's super fun and interesting up until he puts up a Powerpoint. Also pray that one of your TAs knows how tech because Mott does not
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Fall 2013 - Love Mott! An excellent lecturer/professor. Visit him in office hours and he'll give excellent constructive feedback on your work, or just shoot the breeze with you. Very understanding and supportive. I learned a lot from this class, and would make the same choice any day.
Fall 2013 - Love Mott! An excellent lecturer/professor. Visit him in office hours and he'll give excellent constructive feedback on your work, or just shoot the breeze with you. Very understanding and supportive. I learned a lot from this class, and would make the same choice any day.
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