Professor
Elizabeth Ribet
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Winter 2019 - Professor Ribet is a very engaging lecturer with a soothing voice! The class is 3 hours long once a week. She is very passionate and knowledgeable about mental disability law. The class grade consists of 2 take-home exams (one midterm, one final), participation in class, a book review, and a policy paper. The exam questions are very fair and broad. The weekly readings are always posted on CCLE (so no need to buy a textbook), and they're normally either a court case or an article. The material is very applicable to disability studies, law, etc. and covers a wide range of intersectional topics (reproductive autonomy, gender, class, race, etc.). I highly recommend this course and this professor!
Winter 2019 - Professor Ribet is a very engaging lecturer with a soothing voice! The class is 3 hours long once a week. She is very passionate and knowledgeable about mental disability law. The class grade consists of 2 take-home exams (one midterm, one final), participation in class, a book review, and a policy paper. The exam questions are very fair and broad. The weekly readings are always posted on CCLE (so no need to buy a textbook), and they're normally either a court case or an article. The material is very applicable to disability studies, law, etc. and covers a wide range of intersectional topics (reproductive autonomy, gender, class, race, etc.). I highly recommend this course and this professor!
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Winter 2024 - This class was easy, interesting, and had a very light workload. Professor Ribet is super nice, approachable, and open to answering student questions. Lectures were on Zoom only and also recorded and posted on BruinLearn. Attendance was not required, but you could earn 10 points just by going to all of the lectures. There are no tests in this class, and it is all essay-based. There are also no deadlines throughout the quarter except for 11:59 on Friday of Finals week. There are many assignment options, and you can pick and choose which assignments you want to do (you do not have to do every single assignment in this class even to get an A+). Some examples of assignments were short essays on the readings, book reviews, a policy analysis (of any disability rights law in the US), and short reactions to films. Essays typically needed to be a minimum of 800 words. The class averages seemed very high, and most people got a 100% on every assignment. You can also get up to 8 bonus points for submitting assignments earlier on in the quarter. Personally, to get an A+ in the class (which was a minimum of 105 points), I had to do 5 short essays, 1 book review, 1 policy analysis, 5 short film reactions (200 words each), and attend every class to get the 10 attendance points. Overall, this class was super easy and fun, and it's a great class to take if you're pre-law, interested in disability rights, and/or just need an easy A class.
Winter 2024 - This class was easy, interesting, and had a very light workload. Professor Ribet is super nice, approachable, and open to answering student questions. Lectures were on Zoom only and also recorded and posted on BruinLearn. Attendance was not required, but you could earn 10 points just by going to all of the lectures. There are no tests in this class, and it is all essay-based. There are also no deadlines throughout the quarter except for 11:59 on Friday of Finals week. There are many assignment options, and you can pick and choose which assignments you want to do (you do not have to do every single assignment in this class even to get an A+). Some examples of assignments were short essays on the readings, book reviews, a policy analysis (of any disability rights law in the US), and short reactions to films. Essays typically needed to be a minimum of 800 words. The class averages seemed very high, and most people got a 100% on every assignment. You can also get up to 8 bonus points for submitting assignments earlier on in the quarter. Personally, to get an A+ in the class (which was a minimum of 105 points), I had to do 5 short essays, 1 book review, 1 policy analysis, 5 short film reactions (200 words each), and attend every class to get the 10 attendance points. Overall, this class was super easy and fun, and it's a great class to take if you're pre-law, interested in disability rights, and/or just need an easy A class.
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