~Autism through the eyes of a rich white woman~
Judy Mark has to be one of the worst professors I have had at UCLA. She has no understanding of what it means to be a working student and repeatedly told her students they need to be putting school over their jobs (sorry but school isn't keeping us all fed and paying for doctors bills), pretty much avoided ever talking about socioeconomic and race intersections except for when she had one black speaker to prove shes not ~racist~ and thought it was totally okay to make fun of a students PTSD and then kiss them and proceed to refuse an apology after student expressed discomfort. Honestly was disappointed as hell with the disability studies dept after taking this nightmare professor.

~Autism through the eyes of a rich white woman~
Judy Mark has to be one of the worst professors I have had at UCLA. She has no understanding of what it means to be a working student and repeatedly told her students they need to be putting school over their jobs (sorry but school isn't keeping us all fed and paying for doctors bills), pretty much avoided ever talking about socioeconomic and race intersections except for when she had one black speaker to prove shes not ~racist~ and thought it was totally okay to make fun of a students PTSD and then refuse an apology. Honestly was disappointed as hell with the disability studies dept after taking this nightmare professor.

I completely disagree with the previous comment. Disability Studies M139 with Judy Mark was easily the best class I've taken at UCLA. Every week was super engaging and I learned so many valuable perspectives, including on the intersectionality of disability, race, and social determinants of health. The guest speeches were incredibly powerful and eye-opening, I wish it was longer than 10 weeks! This class is heavy on the writing (two 5 page papers and one 8-10 page final paper + participation) but I still felt that the workload and weekly readings were very reasonable. The articles are provided and I could skim on most weeks with no problem (be warned though you do have to integrate the reading into all three papers). Overall, an amazing class that I learned so much from and Judy, Dr. Demer, and the TA were nothing but sweet and supportive to our class!

I completely disagree with the previous comment. Disability Studies M139 with Judy Mark was easily the best class I've taken at UCLA. Every week was super engaging and I learned so many valuable perspectives, including on the intersectionality of disability, race, and social determinants of health. The guest speeches were incredibly powerful and eye-opening, I wish it was longer than 10 weeks! This class is heavy on the writing (two 5 page papers and one 8-10 page final paper + participation) but I still felt that the workload and weekly readings were very reasonable. The articles are provided and I could skim on most weeks with no problem (be warned though you do have to integrate the reading into all three papers). Overall, an amazing class that I learned so much from and Judy, Dr. Demer, and the TA were nothing but sweet and supportive to our class!