gioosorio

oh. i took contemporary moral and social issues with prof schroeder. my grade wasn't that bad. but i had a few disagreements with my ta. you basically just learn about both sides of a social issue and philosophers who wrote on that issue. the tests were not that bad if you had all your notes and answered the study guide with a friend or two.

amy12

how is the law and public policy one?

UnleashedFury

anybody have an opinion on the ethics for earthlings and others course?

12layla12

haha ^
that one sounded really interesting
wonder what kind of interesting ppl you'd meet there

Hawkwings

I've heard that one is really good, and it seems to be popular opinion too, judging by how fast the class fills up.

UnleashedFury

I just came back from orientation, and it's apparently not being offered fall semester. The advisers said that sometimes a professor can't teach or something like that for various reasons.

I ended up with the grassroots class. If I end up hating it, at least it also satisfies the diversity requirement..

amy12

Does the same teacher teach both your category iv class and the corresponding writing class? or is there a different teacher for writing? because my writing teacher isn't listed on my web registration schedule...

subandrew1

different professors for writing and cat IV.

jbusc

they only assign AL's to writ-140 sections right before the semester begins

josie17

Does anyone know if you can take the catgory VI GE and WRIT 140 in the spring semester?

War Chant

Yeah, of course you can, some people can't fit it fall so they take it spring.

ajk51397

I ended up taking Film, Power, and American History. Does anyone know anything about that class and/or the professor?

forever09

How's Messner as a professor?

jbusc

I took this class before. Ross is an interesting professor, though the class can get a bit dry at times since there is a lot of emphasis on early 20th century labor movements. You watch a lot of movies in that class, some more modern hollywood style, some older.

3-4 shorter writing assignments, in-class essay midterm (the TA basically gives away the prompt beforehand), 10-15 page term paper on topic of your choice (related to the class), in-class final (same format as midterm), mandatory attendance in lecture and discussion.

I took it P/NP so I didn't pay attention to the grading.

I liked it mostly, though, because each of the writ 140 papers involved picking a movie and writing about some social theme in that movie, which I think made the papers a lot more interesting than other people's writ 140s.

pm me if there are any other questions

12layla12

how's race and class in la? anyone know?