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Sule Ozler
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Winter 2018 - I'm not really sure if the people who gave her positive reviews actually went to lectures. Professor Ozler makes me cringe at least twice in every class. Before I had this class, I didn't realize professors had the right to be so rude to students. She's probably the rudest person I've ever seen, and she blames it on her being tired or whatever but uh, yeah, who isn't? Every time she does attempt to apologize to students she's rude to, it's pretty half-assed and she's even said, "I already apologized, what do you want me to do?" If you ask her about a concept, she'll either repeat exactly what she had in the powerpoint slide or rudely tell you to go back to the slides yourself. As for the material itself, it's rightfully dense. Still, I thought it'd be a comparatively easier elective but it's actually a huge pain in the butt with Ozler as the professor. Yes, you can drill the fundamentals through her study questions and study all her lecture notes but she'll still manage to pinpoint the most specific, minute details to ask about on the exams. Sometimes her exam questions are extremely broad and yet she'll have such specific answers on the key so the graders will still mark points off. I studied for this class more than I have for any other class, and I got a raw B, curved to an A- on the midterm. It's not worth it at all for the amount of work you have to put in to organize all the material yourself and memorize every single word from lectures. Don't do it. It doesn't matter that she eliminated the department curve and now you're "competing with yourself"; not really. You're competing with the vicious professor and exams. Just do yourself a favor and avoid this class at all costs.
Winter 2018 - I'm not really sure if the people who gave her positive reviews actually went to lectures. Professor Ozler makes me cringe at least twice in every class. Before I had this class, I didn't realize professors had the right to be so rude to students. She's probably the rudest person I've ever seen, and she blames it on her being tired or whatever but uh, yeah, who isn't? Every time she does attempt to apologize to students she's rude to, it's pretty half-assed and she's even said, "I already apologized, what do you want me to do?" If you ask her about a concept, she'll either repeat exactly what she had in the powerpoint slide or rudely tell you to go back to the slides yourself. As for the material itself, it's rightfully dense. Still, I thought it'd be a comparatively easier elective but it's actually a huge pain in the butt with Ozler as the professor. Yes, you can drill the fundamentals through her study questions and study all her lecture notes but she'll still manage to pinpoint the most specific, minute details to ask about on the exams. Sometimes her exam questions are extremely broad and yet she'll have such specific answers on the key so the graders will still mark points off. I studied for this class more than I have for any other class, and I got a raw B, curved to an A- on the midterm. It's not worth it at all for the amount of work you have to put in to organize all the material yourself and memorize every single word from lectures. Don't do it. It doesn't matter that she eliminated the department curve and now you're "competing with yourself"; not really. You're competing with the vicious professor and exams. Just do yourself a favor and avoid this class at all costs.
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Spring 2020 - I took this class during Spring 2020, meaning that everything was entirely online. I took this class as an engineering major who needed to take an upper-div econ class (as part of my sci-tech requirement), but was looking for something easier than the core upper-div econ classes (like 101 or 102). Overall, I found it pretty dull but easy. The course material for the first few weeks was very uninteresting to me. I had to force myself to pay attention while watching the lectures, and I found it difficult to stay engaged enough to continue taking notes. That said, taking detailed notes really paid off on the midterm. The lecture slides were helpful but cryptic. The professor mainly just reads off the slides, so towards the end of the quarter I started to just skim the videos at 2x speed rather than watching them thoroughly. The midterm exam was pretty easy in my opinion. Since it was online, it was open-book, open-notes. I found it easy since I could just search my typed notes for whatever the question was asking for. I ended up finishing it pretty quickly, and got a good score. Professor Ozler was kind enough to make the final optional due to the difficult circumstances at the time; I chose not to take it, so I can't comment on its difficulty. Overall, I thought this class was a bit uninteresting, but it was easy to do well in, so if that's what you're looking for, then go for it.
Spring 2020 - I took this class during Spring 2020, meaning that everything was entirely online. I took this class as an engineering major who needed to take an upper-div econ class (as part of my sci-tech requirement), but was looking for something easier than the core upper-div econ classes (like 101 or 102). Overall, I found it pretty dull but easy. The course material for the first few weeks was very uninteresting to me. I had to force myself to pay attention while watching the lectures, and I found it difficult to stay engaged enough to continue taking notes. That said, taking detailed notes really paid off on the midterm. The lecture slides were helpful but cryptic. The professor mainly just reads off the slides, so towards the end of the quarter I started to just skim the videos at 2x speed rather than watching them thoroughly. The midterm exam was pretty easy in my opinion. Since it was online, it was open-book, open-notes. I found it easy since I could just search my typed notes for whatever the question was asking for. I ended up finishing it pretty quickly, and got a good score. Professor Ozler was kind enough to make the final optional due to the difficult circumstances at the time; I chose not to take it, so I can't comment on its difficulty. Overall, I thought this class was a bit uninteresting, but it was easy to do well in, so if that's what you're looking for, then go for it.
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Winter 2019 - It's hard to describe the exact reason why you shouldn't take this class. There isn't one specific thing that makes it so bad - it's the culmination of a lot of little things that made it the worst Econ class I've taken at UCLA. The first thing out of Professor Ozler's mouth was "I am combative." Not a good sign, right? She then proceeded to present disorganized lectures in mildly broken English and expected us to understand every single piece of information she gave. The exams were my least favorite part of the class. The final was cumulative, so we were expected to know an ungodly amount of information about a WIDE variety of topics. She actually told us that we needed to know everything we had learned in class. Literally everything (?). But once I actually saw the final, it became clear that she was only testing us on MAYBE 10% of the material covered in class, and she wanted SPECIFIC answers. These were subsets to side sections to additions to lectures-type answers - quite vague and seemingly useless compared to the main points outlined in the course. This was truly the biggest waste of my time. If you want to learn about Globalization, take a Global Studies class. If gender, take a gender studies class. Unless someone else teaches this, don't waste your time in a class where the material is made so incredibly over complex that it drives you crazy. Rant over, but seriously, would not recommend.
Winter 2019 - It's hard to describe the exact reason why you shouldn't take this class. There isn't one specific thing that makes it so bad - it's the culmination of a lot of little things that made it the worst Econ class I've taken at UCLA. The first thing out of Professor Ozler's mouth was "I am combative." Not a good sign, right? She then proceeded to present disorganized lectures in mildly broken English and expected us to understand every single piece of information she gave. The exams were my least favorite part of the class. The final was cumulative, so we were expected to know an ungodly amount of information about a WIDE variety of topics. She actually told us that we needed to know everything we had learned in class. Literally everything (?). But once I actually saw the final, it became clear that she was only testing us on MAYBE 10% of the material covered in class, and she wanted SPECIFIC answers. These were subsets to side sections to additions to lectures-type answers - quite vague and seemingly useless compared to the main points outlined in the course. This was truly the biggest waste of my time. If you want to learn about Globalization, take a Global Studies class. If gender, take a gender studies class. Unless someone else teaches this, don't waste your time in a class where the material is made so incredibly over complex that it drives you crazy. Rant over, but seriously, would not recommend.
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She complained a lot about what we should have learned in Econ 101 and didn't. Or at least she thought we didn't just because students rarely raised their hands to participate. She tried to make the class interactive, but we would have learned a lot more if she had spent more time actually lecturing and less time waiting for students to explain things. The tests were fair, but I was still disappointed that I learned more about trade theory in my other econ classes or even poli sci classes.
She complained a lot about what we should have learned in Econ 101 and didn't. Or at least she thought we didn't just because students rarely raised their hands to participate. She tried to make the class interactive, but we would have learned a lot more if she had spent more time actually lecturing and less time waiting for students to explain things. The tests were fair, but I was still disappointed that I learned more about trade theory in my other econ classes or even poli sci classes.
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I took this course in Fall 2010 and was disappointed. Professor Ozler seemed to always have excuses for being late, and while some seemed legitimate, she came across as lazy. Along the same lines, she used slides almost directly from the book, that were somehow still filled with misspellings and awkwardly worded sentences. She was nice for the most part, and I understand her occasional frustration when our class participation was low, but she was often defensive and demeaning when the class did not understand a concept, blaming the students instead of trying to teach it in a more comprehensible way. Maybe if her students didn't feel intimidated asking questions, there would have been more participation in the first place. To top it all off, she did not notify us that she would be hiring a proctor for the final exam, and that she herself would not be present. This proctor never showed up due to incorrect information provided to her by the professor, and we were not able to take our final. Luckily she gave us all 100% on the test, but this was purely due to her own laziness and carelessness.
I took this course in Fall 2010 and was disappointed. Professor Ozler seemed to always have excuses for being late, and while some seemed legitimate, she came across as lazy. Along the same lines, she used slides almost directly from the book, that were somehow still filled with misspellings and awkwardly worded sentences. She was nice for the most part, and I understand her occasional frustration when our class participation was low, but she was often defensive and demeaning when the class did not understand a concept, blaming the students instead of trying to teach it in a more comprehensible way. Maybe if her students didn't feel intimidated asking questions, there would have been more participation in the first place. To top it all off, she did not notify us that she would be hiring a proctor for the final exam, and that she herself would not be present. This proctor never showed up due to incorrect information provided to her by the professor, and we were not able to take our final. Luckily she gave us all 100% on the test, but this was purely due to her own laziness and carelessness.
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Hello fellow Bruins, I wanted to say that I really enjoyed this class in my final quarter at UCLA. It covers a broad range of information and you can choose what areas of study you want to be able to focus upon without being penalized. The Professor is really nice and flexible as I was seeking to design a final paper that was a bit different from the normal prompt. The Professor was also extremely understanding of personal matters which left me with the feeling that she cared about her students. It's a smaller class so she urges people to participate which I feel is great because you get to hear different perspectives. There is no group project or activities which might be uncomfortable for some people. She grades correctly and is a good UCLA professor. I really enjoyed this class as it was one of my final classes at UCLA! GO BRUINS!
Hello fellow Bruins, I wanted to say that I really enjoyed this class in my final quarter at UCLA. It covers a broad range of information and you can choose what areas of study you want to be able to focus upon without being penalized. The Professor is really nice and flexible as I was seeking to design a final paper that was a bit different from the normal prompt. The Professor was also extremely understanding of personal matters which left me with the feeling that she cared about her students. It's a smaller class so she urges people to participate which I feel is great because you get to hear different perspectives. There is no group project or activities which might be uncomfortable for some people. She grades correctly and is a good UCLA professor. I really enjoyed this class as it was one of my final classes at UCLA! GO BRUINS!
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Hello fellow Bruins, I wanted to say that I really enjoyed this class in my final quarter at UCLA. It covers a broad range of information and you can choose what areas of study you want to be able to focus upon without being penalized. The Professor is really nice and flexible as I was seeking to design a final paper that was a bit different from the normal prompt. The Professor was also extremely understanding of personal matters which left me with the feeling that she cared about her students. It's a smaller class so she urges people to participate which I feel is great because you get to hear different perspectives. There is no group project or activities which might be uncomfortable for some people. She grades correctly and is a good UCLA professor. I really enjoyed this class as it was one of my final classes at UCLA! GO BRUINS!
Hello fellow Bruins, I wanted to say that I really enjoyed this class in my final quarter at UCLA. It covers a broad range of information and you can choose what areas of study you want to be able to focus upon without being penalized. The Professor is really nice and flexible as I was seeking to design a final paper that was a bit different from the normal prompt. The Professor was also extremely understanding of personal matters which left me with the feeling that she cared about her students. It's a smaller class so she urges people to participate which I feel is great because you get to hear different perspectives. There is no group project or activities which might be uncomfortable for some people. She grades correctly and is a good UCLA professor. I really enjoyed this class as it was one of my final classes at UCLA! GO BRUINS!
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IDS 191 DONT TAKE HER CLASS lectures are a total waste of time. Boring and doesn't prepare you at all for the exams. Her tests are very confusing and sometimes contain material that she doesn't teach in class. she's a bad professor who didn't even show up for our final! she just doesn't care about her students. participation is so important, need to speak a LOT & you will lose your point if you don't show up !
IDS 191 DONT TAKE HER CLASS lectures are a total waste of time. Boring and doesn't prepare you at all for the exams. Her tests are very confusing and sometimes contain material that she doesn't teach in class. she's a bad professor who didn't even show up for our final! she just doesn't care about her students. participation is so important, need to speak a LOT & you will lose your point if you don't show up !
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