Low Effort class. The topics were silly though not sure if I learned anything useful. Gave me some interesting perspective though and background behind design I’d seen before. Literally do the work and you’re good.

Is this an easy GE? Yes. Do you really learn anything? No. I really tried hard to pay attention in class, but being a 3hr lecture at 9am and the fact that the lights were dimmed, I slowly started to just do other work during lecture or sleep. There are three pop quizzes (lowest score is dropped) throughout the quarter, and attendance is taken either at the break or at the end of class. There's a midterm paper that is individual (it was about our opinion on if ornamentation is considered a crime), the "UCLA game" which is basically a scavenger hunt across campus with a group done instead of a midterm test, and a final group paper (this year we had to write about the design of a place we liked in Westwood). You will need to get the course reader because we have to use the readings in there as our sources for our essays. Huhtamo also used concepts from the readings in some quiz questions. If I paid more attention I would have gotten more out of the class, but it is easy to get an A without listening to lecture.

I am probably not the only one get offended when the professor characterize his lamp as "look like an Asian figure" because of the "eye shape." He could have been more sensitive given the amount of Asian students in his class.

I could go on and on about why I would never take this class again and why I would never reccommend this atrocious class to anyone, but in short:

- Huhtamo has probably the worst communication skills I have experienced from a professor
- not lenient towards any type of extensions (got an extremely rude email response back for asking for a ONE day extension because I was sick for an entire week)
- expensive textbook that is required, you cannot complete assignments or write essays without the ereader
- homework is just busywork (you could easily answer each question in at least three sentences but each question required a minimum of 100 words so you found yourself repeating yourself multiple times)
- usually I enjoy GEs, but this class drained every ounce of happiness from me
- it is extremeley boring (you would think a design class would be interesting and engaging but no, it's shocking what Huhtamo can do to you) I would honestly forget about this class a lot
- you would also think that since this class is focused on design they would design this class better
- only good thing is that it is an easy A

TLDR: DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS... INSTEAD you should try PORTSGE 46 (actually interesting, engaging, you learn something useful, you don't waste a quarter, still an easy A)

This is an incredibly easy GE but you will 100% not learn a single thing that has bearing on real life. Most of the material is theoretical and the professor's lectures are not engaging whatsoever. You have to buy the textbook for the assignments, but even as somebody who read every single reading, I didn't learn a single thing. There are three pop quizzes, four event reports, a midterm, and a final, which can be done in a group. The grading is extremely lenient and there are multiple extra credit opportunities that cover you even if you fail the pop quizzes, which are stupidly specific. It's a fine class that does the job with very little work but it's a waste of time

I have really enjoyed this class so far as it is really easy and there are not many assignments. However, I feel like the context in the readings and lectures have a lot of examples and are a little hard to comprehend. The lectures are also very long on a Friday morning which is very hard some days. Overall, the class does not assign much homework besides for the one reading a week, however when spread out, it is pretty easy. This class could also get boring as it is from 9:00-11:50 and goes over a lot of examples.

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Professor Huhtamo is really passionate about design. I personally really enjoyed his class and liked his enthusiasm about the subject. The class from what I remember had 2 outside event reviews, one midterm essay where the course reader was helpful,a scavenger hunt, and the final which was a time capsule about design objects. Attendance was also taken since the class only met once a week. Most students left after attendance was taken however I personally recommend staying and listening to his lectures as they are useful when writing the midterm and final essays.
Overall it was a pretty easy GE and totally manageable. You don't really have to do the readings that are assigned but its pretty useful to skim though them as you have to refer to them and cite them in the midterm essay.
There are two group work opportunities, one was the scavenger hunt that the TAs and the Professor organized that was fairly entertaining and incorporated large portions of the campus. The other opportunity was working on the final as a group. I personally did the final on my own and it was completely manageable, however I would suggest starting on it early because part of it also includes putting together a diagram of the time capsule as well as including a specific number of citations.
This is a fairly easy GE, I got an A and really enjoyed the class.

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