I often felt very frustrated in this class. Zeleny is clearly very smart and knowledgeable, but her lectures lack cohesion and are very difficult to follow. She would frequently start one idea and abandon it mid-sentence. The written class materials she provides are often riddled with grammatical errors. The work in this class was mostly busywork relating to image and document sourcing. This course does not require you to learn many real historical events or movements. Your final is a group project setting up a website page on Scalar with a visual essay with a collection of curated images and theme. That part was fun, but the course spent too long teaching how to use the cropping tool in Canvas instead of actual historical analysis. TL;DR -- it's an easy A but you might rip your hair out over how banal it is.

This was the easiest class I’ve ever taken. If you complete every assignment, it’s hard not to do well. Professor Zeleny genuinely wants her students to succeed. If you don’t get full points on an assignment, she allows you to redo it and will adjust your grade accordingly.

The main focus of the course is building a group and individual “page” centered around the course topic throughout the quarter. The workload is very manageable. Highly recommend!

Professor Zeleny is a wonderful addition to UCLA's history department. She is very knowledgeable with a background as a medical historian and is very passionate about the subject she teaches. Her class is heavily based on group work so having friends in the class is a plus as you select your own groups. She assigns lots of busywork that require you to carefully pay attention to her instructions, which one may argue to be confusing. She also allows you to resubmit assignments to not only obtain the highest grade on it but to also have a strong understanding of the topics. Participation does matter in her class and you will be marked off is not present in lectures. Overall her course is not difficult but requires the completion of several easy assignments weekly. I would recommend her class to any students on the verge of enrolling. Disregard the poor review for this course and enroll for an easy A, Professor Zeleny is great!

I understand why Prof. Zeleny wanted us to understand how to use online resources and how to properly interact with different forms of information, but the fact that we only focused on that makes this being a history class feel very misleading. It should be an online research class or archival studies class instead. We learn next to nothing about history, and that is why I signed up for this class. The assignments are easy and simple, and she is a very forgiving grader, but anyone who is hoping to learn anything about the history of medicine with Zeleny (as I was) will be sorely disappointed. The content really has no relation to history besides the name.

There's no actual real content for this class...you pretty much end up learning things about how to make a website and convert urls. So if you actually want a history course with content this won't be it for you. She doesn't really lecture. Workload is manageable but it's based on a group project the entire quarter so if you don't like group work that is pretty much the entire class. Super easy A though.

I took this course based on all the good ratings. I found this class super interesting and interactive. There are many tedious assignments, however, they are all easy and graded off completion. There is no midterm, and the final is a group project with a small presentation. There is a lot of group work so pick a good group at the beginning of the course.
Professor Zelany is so kind and understanding and wants all of her students to get As in her class. As long as you do your work and attend class, you are almost guaranteed an A. I would recommend taking her at some point during your time at UCLA!!

I took this class with Professor Zeleny to fulfill my 187 requirements in the summer and it was wonderful. The class was centered around typewriters throughout history with small assignments throughout that were very easy and manageable. The final is an interactive group project and short presentation. Overall, Zeleny is great and I would highly recommend to any history major looking to fulfill this requirement.

Professor Zeleny was fantastic all the way through. This class is comprised of small and easy assignments due each week and there is a group project at the end that is more than manageable. She is genuinely one of the friendliest and most helpful professors I've ever had!

Learned a lot in this class. Small bite-sized assignments and readings that feel easy but add up to a lot of useful knowledge. She teaches a few really interesting subjects. Really accessible and kind, super helpful in office hours.
Clear and generous grading, not a huge time investment to do well.

Considering this was the only course I was taking over the summer, it was very manageable and didn't consume a large part of my time. The assignments were organized and included in-depth instructions on how to complete the assignment and her expectations from us. Dr. Zeleny is also a very kind professor and she puts in the effort to make sure we're engaged. Highly recommend taking a class with her!