I agree with the reviewer below 100%. I needed a social analysis GE last quarter, and this was the only one that fit in with my schedule. I have never met a "professor" who is so in love with himself. The 2 hour lecture/discussion was basically 110 minutes of the Ramesh show and then 10 minutes of two people sucking up by repeating his words. He seems to think that having a BS in industrial engineering makes him super special... it doesn't. I felt so much second hand embarrassment for him and the class he was trying so hard to impress. Please, if you are going to talk about information theory, don't get SNR wrong and don't call it a "transitor". It is a transistor, and a MOSFET is a type of transistor. He is very young, but so are many other professors at UCLA, and I've never met such a pompous ass.

He expected way too much for a GE. There was so much reading, and honestly a lot of it was dense pointless shit. This is a lower division class, and almost everyone here is taking it because they NEED to. There was more work to this class than any of the 4 other classes I was taking that quarter (including several upper division EE). Every part of this class was to make him feel better about himself. In the first class, the waitlist was full, and there were even more people in the classroom asking to be placed in (~35 maybe?). By fourth week, enrollment was 11/20.

This guy is too full of himself; he doesn't even have tenure yet, and I just feel that he is very immature, like he needs to remind his students every meeting that he is superior to us in every aspect. If you are okay with this, have no other classes, and want to practice brownnosing, then I suppose I can recommend Ramesh. I'm really sorry I ever met this guy.