If you need a chill GE during COVID, I suggest taking this class. There was no midterm or final for the class, only 5 quizzes every other week (lowest score dropped) and 2 papers (lowest score dropped) Since the lowest score was dropped, you could essentially skip 1 if you got good enough scores on the previous tests/paper. I can't guarantee it will be like this in future quarters but even if it wasn't the tests weren't hard at all.

EXTREMELY easy GE! If you need to fulfill your historical analysis/ social analysis GE, I would recommend you to take this class. Your grade is determined by your best four quizzes out of five and your best paper out of two. If you do well on the first four quizzes and first paper, you do not have to do any work for that class after since they will be dropped anyway. The quizzes consisted of ten questions each and the answers could be found in the lectures. Some questions were from the readings, but they were not super specific and they tended to be more general questions about the readings. The lectures were extremely dry and the professor definitely did go off on a tangent about unrelated topics for over an hour, so thank goodness they were prerecorded + 2x speed! We did have six mandatory discussion meetings with our TAs and during those discussion sections, our TAs helped us better understand and highlighted the key points of the professor’s lectures. They also attempted to engage us by discussing the readings, but majority of us did not do it prior to the discussion section haha. I felt super bad for the TAs since they would ask questions and it would go *crickets*. But yeaahhh, I personally did not learn much from this class, but it was super easy so (:

Li Min is a lecturer, not a teacher. He obviously knows what he's talking about, and demonstrates really good knowledge. But it seems like he's more interested in talking about his material/own archaeological work than making sure the class knows the material. That being said, my man made all the quizzes extremely easy, and really made the class easier for us. He doesn't really care about the class too much, for 3 of the 5 quizzes, he forgot to scramble answers, so the right answer was just the first choice. 5 quizzes per quarter, one gets dropped, so each one is worth 10%. If you mess these up, you are an idiot ngl.

This class comes down to your TA and only your TA. Shoutout Kirie Stromberg for 1. being proposed to, huge congrats 2. probably feeling happy about getting married and giving me 100% on my essay. Final essay is 6-8 pages double spaced, you make your own topic for 30% of the grade.

Discussion participation is mandatory and counts for 30% of your grade. Camera has to be on (Li Min made it online like the mf g he is).

I took Chinese 50,but I can't find it in the course list.不要被评分吓着了，他的CHIN 50对于天朝学生来讲还是ok的，大概的历史都知道嘛。这个教授就是太喜欢地图和考古遗迹了，所以ppt略显混乱。

Chinese 50- Textbooks
<Cambridge Illustrated History China>
I got a completely new textbook and one used textbook from the Amazon.

the new one: $38 --> $20
the used(almost new) --> $12

<Chinese civilization Source book>
the used one: $22.70 -->$10

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I took Antho 116P as an incoming transfer student, not knowing what to expect from UCLA. At first it seemed confusing, but throughout the course I learned so much about Ancient China that I was able to accurately guess the date of an Ancient Chinese artifact in a middle school text book based on what I learned in this class. Really caring Professor, go to office hours to get the most out of the class. :D

Although he is sometimes difficult to understand, his class was interesting and I really enjoyed it. We had a take home midterm and final and a project that was pretty much open to whatever you wanted to do. He is a really nice guy and I would definitely take a class from him again.

I had him for 116N. Take this class. Get to know him! He is great and I really think you will enjoy him if you visit him in office hours and try to think about the interesting ideas he presents in class. He is very concerned about his students and will help you in any way he can.

Not the best teacher for Chinese 50. I could not find the course listed for chinese 50 so i just chose anthropology...sorry about that
Powerpoints and notes tend to be unorganized and confusing to understand. Class is kind of boring. Since he's more of an archaeological, his version of Chinese history is extremely confusing and different from other popular sources.

TOOK CHINESE 50

Great professor and very nice guy. His tests are multiple choice and very easy. Just memorize the lecture slides and what he says. I hardly read and got perfect scores on the midterm and quizzes. Go to office hours cause practically no one goes. I went once and he remembered me.