Senior coming back to drop a review on my favorite class. When I took electronic lit, ChatGPT had just launched to the public. Snelson was the first professor I had that addressed it, he changed the entire course to focus on learning about generative AI, critiquing it, understanding how it works, understanding what it means for our careers, for language and art overall.

If you want to work in writing, or archiving, or an artistic field, or anything the English major sets you up for, you NEED to really take the time to understand and properly critique AI. It's a fact of the industry now, and higher education at large hasn't caught up to that yet. I personally really dislike genAI but I recommend this class to everyone because it's just extremely relevant and useful.

Also, Snelson is very cool, gracious, and smart. If you like a more open-ended, creatively driven course, you'll enjoy this and find it relatively easy.

Professor Snelson is the best prof I've had at UCLA. He is compassionate, brilliant and engaging. Even if you have no interest in A.I., I would strongly recommend taking this class for an easy A and a fun/relaxing class atmosphere.