Professor
Todd Kushigemachi
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Fall 2020 - TAKE THISSSS CLASSSSSSS WITH PROFESSOR K!!!! Man oh man is he the best most accommodating professor I have ever taken a class from EVER!!!!!! The writing assignments are graded somewhat harshly but they are super short, there aren't that many, and the films are super fun to watch. The quizzes are super easy if you watch the lectures and the films! You can definitely get an A in this class if you do the work! He frequently accommodated for covid stress, which everyone has!!! He even made the final optional because of how stressful everything right now is. Overall, I LOVEEE HIM AND I HIGHLYYYY RECCOMEND YOU TAKE THIS CLASS!!!!
Fall 2020 - TAKE THISSSS CLASSSSSSS WITH PROFESSOR K!!!! Man oh man is he the best most accommodating professor I have ever taken a class from EVER!!!!!! The writing assignments are graded somewhat harshly but they are super short, there aren't that many, and the films are super fun to watch. The quizzes are super easy if you watch the lectures and the films! You can definitely get an A in this class if you do the work! He frequently accommodated for covid stress, which everyone has!!! He even made the final optional because of how stressful everything right now is. Overall, I LOVEEE HIM AND I HIGHLYYYY RECCOMEND YOU TAKE THIS CLASS!!!!
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Winter 2021 - If you are a film major, or any major for that matter, you are doing yourself a severe injustice if you do not take this class! Professor K is one of the most charming, engaging, and accommodating professors I've had at UCLA. He has a great sense of humor and is very approachable (as approachable as one can get by interacting online). For this particular class, Film Genres, we studied 3 different spheres of East Asian Horror Cinema: Japanese, Hong Kong, and Korean cinema. Throughout the quarter we watched a great variety of films that were all interesting and engaging in their own right (don't worry if you get too freaked out by horror movies; there's something for everyone here!) The assignments are all extremely reasonable and relatively easy, too. There's just one essay for the class, and you have a lot of freedom in what you want to write about. Highly recommend!
Winter 2021 - If you are a film major, or any major for that matter, you are doing yourself a severe injustice if you do not take this class! Professor K is one of the most charming, engaging, and accommodating professors I've had at UCLA. He has a great sense of humor and is very approachable (as approachable as one can get by interacting online). For this particular class, Film Genres, we studied 3 different spheres of East Asian Horror Cinema: Japanese, Hong Kong, and Korean cinema. Throughout the quarter we watched a great variety of films that were all interesting and engaging in their own right (don't worry if you get too freaked out by horror movies; there's something for everyone here!) The assignments are all extremely reasonable and relatively easy, too. There's just one essay for the class, and you have a lot of freedom in what you want to write about. Highly recommend!