This class consisted of 4 in-class quizzes and 2 papers: 1 paper being a collaborative essay with a partner from your discussion and the other paper being a self-reflective paper. There was no official midterm or final. Participation counts as well. Depending on your TA, you may have extra assignments, but nothing too serious.
The quizzes were based off of assigned readings, and the readings themselves were easy to understand and not too long. The readings were given to us through CCLE, meaning we did not have to invest in any textbooks. The quiz prompts were hinted or given to us ahead of time in lecture and sometimes talked about in discussion, making the quizzes fairly easy. The quizzes were essay-style and limited to 2 front pages in a blue-book. Attending lecture is definitely necessary to do well in this class. Lecture, however, is very interesting overall as Professor Basarudin takes this class very seriously and cares about her students. The papers are bit more on the difficult side, but are still very intriguing. The prompts given are based off documentaries we watch in lecture and again, assigned readings. It's definitely doable and a very interesting GE!
Important to note that tardiness is not tolerated. Doors will close and you will not be allowed to enter. Be sure to be on time! Although Basarudin may appear a bit strict at first, she will grow on you. She encourages student participation (not just for your grade) but for your own learning experience. I have genuinely enjoyed this class and 100% recommend.

While the class material was very interesting, the Professor and the TAs had very extreme views which the class had to agree with. My TA was an extremely harsh grader and I didn't hear of anyone getting above a B with her, but other TAs were more lenient. Overall an interesting class but not the easiest.

This class is made up of two group projects, participation, one midterm paper, and a sit down final. There is a lot of reading so be wary of that. The group projects were a bit more confusing than expected. Final is super easy if you actually do the readings and take a few notes so don't procrastinate studying. TAKE THIS CLASS to understand more of the world around you. It definitely changed the protectory of what I wan to do in the future.

*Since it is currently week 10 I have not received a final grade.

I have nothing against Professor Basarudin and take it that she is a genuinely nice person, however I need to address the issues with how this class is being taught and why it should not be allowed.
This professor is extremely particular in their political and cultural views and imposes them onto the students. Lectures consist of videos filming presidents giving speeches, then proceeding to ask the class “what’s wrong with what they’re saying”, students being asked to refrain from traveling to oriental countries to provide help, and papers designed to support the professor’s opinions on a topic and expecting students to agree with all claims given in the prompt.
Students should be able to express their opinions without the fear of receiving a failing grade. The topic of “Women’s Studies” is nowhere near how it should be taught, criticizing men and painting them to be rapists. Instead I would have liked this class to portray femininity in a positive light, learning how it has evolved through time, strategies of self awareness, and demonstrating support to equally oppressed groups in foreign countries.

I almost felt tricked into taking this class due to its’ misleading description on MyUCLA. I wouldn’t recommend this class to anyone, really, even if their beliefs are similar to Basarudin’s. Classes and professors should never be opinionated and close-minded, otherwise student growth can’t happen.

Side note: If you plan on coming to class late.. don’t. You will get called out and publicly embarrassed in front of all your classmates.

This has been one of my favorite classes I've taken at UCLA. It was a class I wanted to talk about with my peers, I wanted to study for the quizzes, and work on the assignments. Which has been very rare for me. The quizzes were pretty easy to get decent grades on, and we were given hints to what to focus on a lot. Sometimes Professor Basarudin even told us what it would be on. The professor is very strict with tardiness, so don't be late. However, it is obvious that Professor Basarudin cares about students and the class in general. Lectures are very important for essays and quizzes. But I always felt interested and engaged in the lectures. There are so many important discussions, you will want to be there regardless of your grades. Overall, I would take this class again and even considered minoring in Gender Studies because of it. This is the first class I took at UCLA that I genuinely felt was important for me as a person and not as a student. I highly recommend taking it!

Honestly I was very iffy about taking this class because of the reviews of the professor but in all honesty it is the opposite of what I was expecting. The class grade was based on one self reflective essay, one media literacy essay with a partner, and four quizzes. No midterm or no final. If you are an open minded person who is interested in learning about gender studies or life in general I would highly recommend this course! My TA was Nic, Nic was an amazing TA who challenges the class in critically thinking about the lectures and readings. So if you are a person who likes to challenge themselves, then this is a class for you!There is no textbook for the class but rather scholarly articles. Overall, I would take this class in a heartbeat!

Engaging lectures, interesting material, helpful professor and TAs.

However, I am saying this as someone who is genuinely interested in the course material.
Do not take this class just because you think it will be an easy A.

Take it because you want to learn more about intersectionality and various feminist theories. Take it because you realized that you don't know enough about the many topics covered in this class

If you take it thinking it will be an easy A and you don't put in effort, the professor will be able to tell and it will reflect on your grade.

This class was very tough for me due to me being a slow reader. We would get about 4-6 weekly readings. It took me about 3-5 hours to get them done to be honest. That was because I finished each reading. In reality, the professor only covered about 3 of them in class. We had two one page essays that counted as quizzes in which we discussed an important topic that one of the author's of the readings for that week discussed about. We had 3 separate essays. The first one, my quarter, was discussing how sex, gender, and sexuality are disciplined by a social institution. The second one was the midterm in which we described our positionality in a specific situation, such as "air travel while being Arab" or "Navigating as a dark-skinned disabled person". The third and final essay involved cooperation with another student on the issue of taking away one's voice from issues affecting them specifically and the issue of the white savior complex. There was no "final" for this class. Basarudin seemed strict as first since she would call out students who arrived late and even did not let a student in once for being 10 minutes tardy but over the quarter, she showed us that she just wanted us to be respectful of the effort teachers put into teaching as well as respectful of other students taking the initiative to arrive on time. She is very funny and very knowledgeable. Sometimes it felt like if you had a perspective different from hers that she would regard it as wrong though, but the TAs assured us that we were ok. This class was difficult for me personally since I wanted to complete each reading and took a while doing so. But the TAs were understanding of how we each learn differently and how the knowledge from the past still carries on with us today. I would say the essays were graded easily; for me, much better than I thought I would receive.

I was a bit hesitant to take Gender 10 with this professor due to the past reviews, but it was completely worth it. Yes, the course itself is difficult from all of the weekly readings, quizzes, and papers. The weekly readings come from various perspectives on the week's topic, and POC and WOC authors are mostly used. The readings range from around 3 or 5 articles and they come from websites/blogs, book chapters, or published articles. There are 4 quizzes, each worth 5 points, and are short essay style. You are given a prompt based on the week's topic and you must write 1 - 1 and 1/2 pages in response to the question using the weekly readings as evidence to support your answer. The TAs grade these, so make sure to ask enough questions on how they will be grading and which articles to focus on. There are two papers for this class. One is a collaborative media literacy essay (which I am not sure how it will work with an online class), and the second is a self-reflexive essay on the topic of your choice. Both essays need to be supported using the readings from the course. The professor is strict on tardiness, which is understandable as it can be very distracting. Basarudin uses slides that sum up the readings and main topics, along with important quotes and a short video/documentary, but! they are not posted online, so you have to be sure to attend every class on time (again, I'm not sure if this will change with an online setting). Basarudin also cares a lot about the students, and will always remember your face and name if you introduce yourself. She also likes to check in with students during the quarter to see how you're doing. She also personally reaches out to students enrolled with CAE, and will help you with any accommodations. She is a very kind and hardworking professor, and I hope other people get to take a class with her as well!

I thought this class was okay. I really enjoyed it but the professor does have some extreme views. I am pretty liberal though so I guess that is why I enjoyed this class. I found all of the topics interesting ,but you definitely have to have an open mind. If you are close-minded then you might not like this class. I do have to agree with the other review though that I did not like it when the professor told students to not travel to other countries to provide help. I personally don't see what's wrong with going to other countries to help out people. If someone wants to do that then I think you should just let them be. I recommend this class though, it's very interesting and very different from all my other classes.