SOCIOL 111
Social Networks
Description: Lecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour. Analysis of how social networks create social structure, how social actors utilize them, and their unexpected effects. Topics include job search, firm efficiency, and social movements. Visualization programs, computer simulations, and research project. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2019 - HE IS AMAZING! Professor Foster truly cares about his students. I loved ALL of his lectures. Yes, it is not easy, but it is the most useful info. I wish I could take all of his classes. He is very funny and uses pop-culture to relate the material. If you want an easy A, this is not it, but if you try, you can totally get an A and have a great time!
Spring 2019 - HE IS AMAZING! Professor Foster truly cares about his students. I loved ALL of his lectures. Yes, it is not easy, but it is the most useful info. I wish I could take all of his classes. He is very funny and uses pop-culture to relate the material. If you want an easy A, this is not it, but if you try, you can totally get an A and have a great time!
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Professor Grannis is so funny. He always has everyone cracking up during lectures and I find it hilarious that he doesn't have office hours (you can talk to him after class if you need to). This class had a lot of busy work & weekly group projects to help us build our social networks lol, but they were very easy & didn't take long. The topics were super interesting and the projects often had you analyze your own social networks. To be clear, the class is not on Facebook, Twitter, etc. but on actual social networks (how people know each other, how people use networks to get jobs, how networks matter in the workplace). It was fairly easy and the quizzes & exams were straightforward.
Professor Grannis is so funny. He always has everyone cracking up during lectures and I find it hilarious that he doesn't have office hours (you can talk to him after class if you need to). This class had a lot of busy work & weekly group projects to help us build our social networks lol, but they were very easy & didn't take long. The topics were super interesting and the projects often had you analyze your own social networks. To be clear, the class is not on Facebook, Twitter, etc. but on actual social networks (how people know each other, how people use networks to get jobs, how networks matter in the workplace). It was fairly easy and the quizzes & exams were straightforward.
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Winter 2016 - This has been one of the easiest classes I have taken at UCLA. Ka is an amazing professor. Some say she was hard to understand with her accent but I was able to understand her just fine. There are readings from a book which she gives you access to online-no $ for books! As long as you pay attention in class and complete ALL homework assignments, you can succeed. The homework assignments take time but you can easily get 100% if not higher. She tried using clicker questions this quarter, so attendance was important as well. This class is very interesting, so it was easy to engage in the text, slides, and homework. Take this class with Ka!! She's awesome.
Winter 2016 - This has been one of the easiest classes I have taken at UCLA. Ka is an amazing professor. Some say she was hard to understand with her accent but I was able to understand her just fine. There are readings from a book which she gives you access to online-no $ for books! As long as you pay attention in class and complete ALL homework assignments, you can succeed. The homework assignments take time but you can easily get 100% if not higher. She tried using clicker questions this quarter, so attendance was important as well. This class is very interesting, so it was easy to engage in the text, slides, and homework. Take this class with Ka!! She's awesome.
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Winter 2024 - This was a very easy class. You have 1 single homework assignment every week, it can be done in a couple hours so chill workload. Tests are done at home and open note, and it's not difficult to get 100% on them. The only issue with the class is that the content is fairly boring, as well as the lectures. Eventually I just couldn't really handle it and started skipping lectures, but the lectures are just going over the slides and aren't super necessary to attend. Although if you don't attend, you'd have to go over the slides anyway since you need to understand it in order to do the homework, so it's probably good to attend. Liz is a W prof, this is a real good class to enroll in 1st pass.
Winter 2024 - This was a very easy class. You have 1 single homework assignment every week, it can be done in a couple hours so chill workload. Tests are done at home and open note, and it's not difficult to get 100% on them. The only issue with the class is that the content is fairly boring, as well as the lectures. Eventually I just couldn't really handle it and started skipping lectures, but the lectures are just going over the slides and aren't super necessary to attend. Although if you don't attend, you'd have to go over the slides anyway since you need to understand it in order to do the homework, so it's probably good to attend. Liz is a W prof, this is a real good class to enroll in 1st pass.
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