I loved this class! Prof. Collett is one of the best professors I have had at my time at UCLA. Her lectures are engaging, relatable, and interesting. She has a way of speaking that keeps you paying attention and she uses great examples to support her speaking points. She is a really kind person and I would recommend visiting her at office hours if there is any confusion. I had trouble coming off the waitlist initially, but she was very helpful and got me into the class. She seems like she really cares about her students.

Yes, there are graded iClicker questions every lecture, though honestly they boosted my grade in the end. At first I didn't like them, but eventually you get used to them and do better. They also made it so the information is fresh in your head so you don't have to study as hard for the exams (which are 18% of your grade each and there are three).

I would highly recommend this professor.

Definitely an easy GE. Tests are 20 multiple choice questions, 6 short answer questions (but you only have to do four of them so you can attempt all 6 and get credit for your highest scores) and one essay (you can pick out of two prompts). If you do the readings (which are pretty interesting), the tests are super easy. Finals aren't cumulative. There are iclicker questions on the reading every day in lecture, so you have to stay on top of it. However, Professor Collett drops a ton of quizzes at the end, so don't stress about it early on- I ended up with only 1 point off in that category even though I got a ton of 4s out of 5. Professor Collett is a good professor because she gives us a lot of relatable examples during lecture that we can use on the exams. There were also some really fun lectures that made me think about things in a new way, so I felt like I gained something from this class.

Hands down my favorite class of the quarter, I learned so much from this class and Professor Collett was an amazing teacher. I took this class as a GE and I am so glad I did. Her lectures were really engaging and the videos we watched in class were really fascinating too. The class material is so interesting and the textbook readings are genuinely not bad at all. The readings were not super long and they were all really interesting and you can understand why they were assigned when you go to lecture. I would normally wake up early on the days I had lecture and did the readings. I spent about an hour and a half reading all of them each time. I stopped taking notes on the readings after the first midterm, as it was a little unnecessary for me (this is because I have a good memory and read actively, do what works best for you). Please show up to lecture on time and with the readings read. Yes, there are clicker quizzes every class but they do not hurt your grade. If you actively read the readings assigned for that lecture, you will be just fine. She also drops a question when over half the class misses it and drops a lot of your worst clicker quizzes. Discussion was also fine. We had small assignments but mainly went over the concepts discussed in class. Absolutely loved my TA Holly, shout out to her. Participation in discussion matters but don't really worry about that. The exams were not hard. If you read the assigned readings and understood the concepts we went over in class, you'll be fine. I got an A on both midterms and the final by just looking over the study guides we made in discussion and making sure I remembered what each reading talked about and how the readings related to each other. The review sessions were kinda useless though. I didn't go to office hours because I never felt the need to since the class was pretty easy to me so I don't really know what those were like BUT she answered a lot of questions in class, which really helped. There were LOTS of opportunities for extra credit so I can understand why an A+ is >100% in the course.

tl;dr If you go to lecture having actively done the readings and pay attention, you will succeed in the class. I highly recommend this class and professor.

Prof Collett is amazing, and I would highly recommend this class! She is helpful, passionate, and engaged, and she made this class easy to understand and enjoy. Her lectures are well organized and clear and she does more teaching than just reading off the powerpoint slides. She provides an abundance of resources and truly seems interested in her students' learning. The weekly readings and daily clicker quizzes contribute the most to the workload, but they were fair and easy to adjust to in my opinion. Her tests were also fair and straightforward as long as you attended lecture, did the readings, and studied.

this class was super difficult. not worth the stress of a GE. have hella readings each week, was the most workload wise of my quarter. the tests were super in depth about the readings, but the thing is that she doesn't go over the readings in lecture, only in discussion. The lectures themselves are interesting and I would totally listen to them in a podcast or something, but NOT when your GPA depends on it. Would not recommend, at least during COVID.

This was a really great GE. I have always curious about sociology and so I was excited to take this course. Light course load and overall easy class. I would definitely recommend this class to anyone looking for an easy/interesting GE. 10/10

Great class, super interesting and I found Prof Collet really engaging. I took it async, so the class was super flexible with my schedule. There's one short paper (approx. 2 pages iirc), but it's not super complicated. Exams are true/false, multiple choice, and then there's a short answer section and an essay question. Not too difficult, but definitely review the main ideas of each of the readings before starting the test, that'll really help for the short answer/essay sections. The expectations for the class and each week are clearly laid out, and so as long as you pay attention and keep on top of the work you should get at least a B no problem.

I took this my freshman fall b/c I heard it was an easy A ge, but now, in my 3rd quarter at UCLA, it really wasn't that easy lol. I think most people were happy w/ their grades at the end of the quarter, but we had like 3 timed quizzes based on accuracy a week + extensive lecture and readings to absorb + tough midterms and final. The exams were 15+ mc, 3-5 short answer, and 1 essay question and they were doable, but definitely felt tough b/c, even though they were open notes, there was no time to look at them and there was just a lot of content being asked about in a short amount of time.
It's overall a fair class w/ really interesting lectures, but definitely not as easy as older reviews make it out to be.

Loved this class!
It is mostly reading based but all the chapters and papers are engaging and interesting and all related to what we are learning. Also, you have to read! The quizzes are based on the readings and the lectures but don't worry it's only 5 questions but it is timed so you can't really check your reading notes.
We only had like 1-2 papers which were like 1-2 pages. We had a group grade so you have to participate in your group in the discussion sections because your group members will rate your participation at the end of the quarter. Also, we had weekly discussions on CCLE answering the professor's questions and responding to other students, but these are informal responses so don't worry too much.
Collett and the TA's make the concepts understandable which is why I believe I found this class to be easy, nothing is glossed over and everything is connected to one big concept, plus we had supplemental videos that really went into depth on some of the topics covered in lecture. Collett is also very supportive and hosted midterm and final review sessions and her emails are cute, the ccle page was well organized, and her motivational posts on the midterm and final tabs were really encouraging.

Also, it really requires you to stay on top of your work. 4-6 readings a week and all mentioned at least once on the midterm and final but it was not hard, do-able if you organize your time well, take good notes, and can see the bigger picture

Definitely more reading than I was expecting, but such a fun and interesting class. I loved the topics covered, from gender norms/practices, economics and poverty, institutions and corporations, etc. During COVID, class is all asynchronous except for discussions (I believe you can miss one and be fine). She sends out plenty of reminder emails and gives extra credit opportunities. Take this class for a fun GE.