Basic rundown: My favorite lecturer at UCLA. you can tell that he is extremely passionate and knowledgable of the topic. He makes the dark topics around suicide/death/trauma extremely interesting
Quizzes (2) 20 questions multiple choice (if you did bad you can write a 10 page paper to make it up)
-the quizzes were not easy, got a 50% and a 75% on them and I read each reading and attended all lectures. the make up papers saved me.
Final: take home essay - you have one week to do it (DO NOT SLACK)
OVERALL: even though this class was on the difficult class the content and the professor made it worth it. you should read the articles as this helps alot - but only going to the lecture could get you a B in the class

This class is awesome. You truly learn a lot. Professor Timmermans is funny, smart and makes his class very interesting. His quizzes are challenging but do able. He assings many readings but you can skim and be okay with just grasping the main idea . His midterm/final are 10-pg essays but he is clear and they are doable with all the content one learns and we can use his slides and notes in the essays

This class can be very interesting, but Timmermans makes it quite hard to grasp. There are two quizzes (each worth 10%) the average on both of them was a C-. No one got 100%. They were incredibly detailed and he didn't give us any kind of a study guide for them. The midterm and final were take home papers. They were 10 pages each. They are fairly broad and can be difficult to get to the point. I got an A on both the midterm and the final but since I got a C on the quizzes, i ended up with a B+ in the class. If you take this class, be ready for the quizzes.

I feel that he could have been more specific about what he wanted from his students in regards to quiz expectations, paper expectations, and grading. Otherwise, he was an entertaining and kind professor.

This was one of the most frustrating out of the classes I've taken; little steps on clarity, but the material was very interesting.

Two "reaction" papers, two quizzes, midterm and final paper, and TONS of reading.

This class had 2 one page write ups (reaction papers) which everyone recieved 5/5 on as long as they wrote something on a piece of paper, 2 quizzes that were both out of 20 points, the midterm, the final, and discussion attendance/participation. Lectures are interesting and cover the material that will be on the quizzes, but Timmermans does not take attendance and often students miss class and review his PowerPoints that are posted online after lecture. The quizzes were very difficult but a 10 page paper on the readings can be written to make up points for a quiz that a student performed poorly on. The midterm and final are both a 10 page paper on a prompt with multiple dynamics that cover information from readings. Three textbooks were required for this course (one being Timmermans' own), while the homework's articles are posted online. Overall, this class was interesting and the TA's are also awesome!

Timmermans looks like a morbid version of where's waldo, and in his death, trauma, and society class you start to feel that way. His Belgium-accent and slightly off-colored humor is characteristic of a man who would spend years in a medical examiner's office, watching countless autopsies. Ultimately, Timmermans is a smart ethnographer, his miderm and final are do-able if you do the reading.