If you are looking for an Easy A, this is not it. The best way I can describe this class is that it was like trying to build an IKEA dresser without instructions. It was intensely frustrating and would have been a lot more efficient with more guidance, tools, and instructions. In the end, after cobbling together my best effort, I feel like I've gained something, but I'm not entirely sure what.

The group project component was exhausting. Were it not for the already infuriating and devastating events of 2020, I would've found it even worse. With a couple of classes on Tableau and no classes on HTML, CSS, or Javascript, we were expected to draw upon the limited explanations in lectures to produce a working final project. Unless you already have some knowledge of data visualization and analysis, this class will be a demanding one.

I think the instructors clearly have experience in their fields. Professor Garcia is a very compassionate and articulate professor, and she is very in tune with students' needs. She welcomes everyone to reach out to her and ask for help. Our TAs were also very skilled and helped with a lot of tasks. I think the course altogether could have benefited from a greater emphasis on the "how" of Digital Humanities rather than the "why." Perhaps in previous quarters, this class was a cop out, but now it is a lot more rigorous. Be careful.

Best professor I have had at UCLA hands down. Professor Garcia cares so much about her students and will do everything she can to make the course as easy as possible for everyone, while ensuring that you get something useful out of it. You work on an amazing group project and the TA's are super helpful as well. The class itself is very interesting and in terms of exams/quizzes is very easy. The main part of the class is the group project, and as long as you have a good group and do your part of the work, you should be fine!

I have had Professor Garcia for other DH classes after and she is just an amazing human being! I highly recommend any class with her!

This class is hard to judge remotely as as a previous reviewer stated it doesn't work incredibly well solely online. There isn't a ton of incentive to attend lecture and discussion after a while because the group project (which makes up most of your grade) can be accomplished without them.

This class is the embodiment of the phrase "you get what you put in," because in theory, you could gain a few marketable skills (Tableau, Excel, etc.) if you put in the time. In practice, however, the incentives aren't there to do this and most students put in the bare minimum.

The professor was really nice and clearly loves what she does. Ruth Livier was an awesome TA who always brought a cheery personality to what was otherwise a fairly dismal time (coronavirus). She really cared about us and was always free to answer questions or give feedback.

I hope they stop doing this class asynchronously. The lectures seemed so irrelevant to the group project it just makes it a hassle to do work for both and not have classtime for the project. It's a class where you can get an A for mediocre work but group projects are with people who don't care and don't want to try. It's just not worth the effort. Theres pretty much no dedicated attention to the group project in class or lab, even the class assignments aren't that helpful. You'd have to go to the TA directly like during lab breakout room/approach them or go to office hours. They don't really check in or clarify their expectations well.

I forgot to do my teacher evaluations and I feel bad so this is the next best thing.

This class is one of the most useful I've taken at UCLA. I love that I get to add new skills to my resume (once I build upon them more, of course) and I got to explore a field I had never encountered before. Professor Sanders and my TA Madison Faulis are both amazing, helpful, knowledgeable people. Assignments never felt pointless, there was always a purpose.

I will say taking this class during summer session made it more difficult than what my friend had described during the school year. It was hard to keep up with everything with other classes too. The professor did remove some of the website requirements that otherwise would've been required during the rest of the school year, so I blame most of this on my own bad time management and group project dynamics.

Even though I tried my best, and I felt like my assignments weren't the strongest still, the TA and Professor always had something nice and constructive to say which made me feel so much better about my work and even myself.

Take this class!

For context I took this class online during summer session C 2020 (Covid times). I assume the 6 week course is fairly different from the 10 week course so ymmv. The class had a pretty heavy workload in terms of individual and group projects with at least 2 or 3 assignments due each week, but I didn't feel like the assignments were particularly challenging as long as you have a solid group to work with, and they graded very generously.

However, I didn't feel like I learned much in the course and my group members echoed the same sentiment. The asynchronous format sucked, there were only a few lectures and the 50 minute labs once a week were too short to really learn much. Overall it felt like there simply wasn't much content in the course. I enjoyed working on the project and learning about the data visualization techniques and mapping, but I simply don't feel like I gained much from taking this class.

This is an easy A class. The professor does not really teach I think, but the TAs are most likely your teachers. The TAs really care of their students. Some say they learn not much in this course, but I think this is a very practical course depending on your role for the final project. It was really fun to figure out how to manage your dataset to make good visualization. Making a website was also fun. As long as you do all your work, getting a grade below an A is impossible, I think.

I can't recommend this class and Dr. Sanders strongly enough. She is so brilliant and SO approachable and so clearly wants to see you succeed. The topic was intimidating to me at first but seriously she makes it so manageable. Unbelievably kind and flexible with deadlines and personal conflicts. 1000/10 professor. would take literally any class with her ever

I took Dr. Sanders Garcia’s Introduction to Digital Humanities course in Fall 2020 when it was online. The course consisted of individual learning activities, team assignments, and final projects. We also had a final exam which consisted of short response questions. One takeaway I had from the class was definitely the text on intersectionality. My favorite part of the course was learning how to use Excel and Google Sheets to clean data because of how practical it was. I also left this class with a basic understanding of Tableau but not confident enough to put it on my resume. My least favorite experience in the course was the group project, where we were assigned our group members. In light of the pandemic, I tried very hard to be empathetic to my group members, but they were not very great communicators and some of them contributed nothing to the project. Although some of my group members came through at the end, I spent the first 9 weeks of the quarter anxious about trying to visualize data, edit a website, and develop a narrative mostly by myself. On the contrary, my TA, Ruth Livier Nunez, was really the highlight of the course. She was very supportive, accommodating, and knowledgeable, and I enjoyed meeting with her for office hours. The basic data cleaning and visualization skills I learned in this class also helped me earn a position as a research assistant, and the work I do as a research assistant is actually very similar to the work I did in this class. As for Dr. Sanders Garcia, I felt like it was understandably difficult to connect with her. I did appreciate how she opened herself up for office hours. Overall, this class is definitely more of a self-teach class. Your group can really make or break your experience like it did for me, but the skills you can gain are undoubtedly beneficial and applicable to many professional avenues.

Professor Sanders is great! This classes was a hybrid (lecture online/lab in-person) and the way she designed the canvas shell was amazing. Super organized and you always knew exactly what you needed to do. The entire class was based on a quarter long group project with a group you get put in around week 2 based on common interests. This class not only teaches you technical skills like data visualizations, working with data, creating a website, ect., but also you will learn how to effectively work in a group and manage tasks. While I feel like I learned a lot through working with a group, I do wish there was a bit more focus on individual skill development and not just group work.