She's intimidating only if you do not participate in class. She really wants to know your opinion and hear you speak, definitely a must in her class. Overall I would say take her class but be prepared to participate, also the reading is VERY doable.
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I was really scared to take Professor Moe for English Comp 3. The ratings on the bruinwalk are scary. But during summer you really dont have much choice to well I went ahead and took her.
I finished her class a week a ago and here is the deal.
Its certainly not easy. There is a lot of reading. And average amount of writing. There is a quiz in EVERY lecture so you have to read your stuff.
The quiz is graded check check plus and check minus.
You are allowed to bring your notes from the reading so thats good. But ya the quizzes are not very easy.
Coming to everything else. She is strict. Absentees will lose grade.
And if you participate in class, you are bound to get b's and a's.
She would not go over the writing style in class. She told us to take tutoring or got to the writing center. She would discuss the topic a lot in the class. The topic for the class is American Food Industry. Pretty interesting.
Trick to get an A in her class. Talk in class. DO YOUR READINGS. Improve on your rough drafts and be punctual.

Professor Moe is a little better than what I thought I'd end up with in a required English class. This class was really very easy until probably week 8, where it got a little more complicated because of group projects. Overall, she was very easy; reading comprehension quizzes every class (literally like 4 questions, you could get extra credit on them if she asked any extra questions and you answered them too) with check minus, check, check plus grading.
She is super strict about absences and tardies, and extremely rarely goes on a tangent unrelated to the subject.
If you are considering taking this class, be sure you are interested in her topic (which right now is), the American Fodd industry, and the conflict between organic and industrialism. (I hear her topic used to be about WWII, so just check to make sure you're interested in whatever you end up picking).

I might be in the minority here, but I actually think that Professor Moe's class isn't too bad. I mean, it's English composition, so you can't really complain about having to read and write alot. With that being said, the topic of the class is food and it is actually really interesting. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" gives us insight about the nation's food industry and shows us how skewed our food system really is. We also never had time to read the second book, "My Year of Meats", which gave us more time to focus on our papers. The papers aren't too bad if you're a good writer, but it is in no way, shape or form "easy". It requires a lot of critical thinking and extensive analyzing and if you struggle with writing, I would highly advise you sign up for tutoring. Professor Moe would recommend that, as well. Actually, she told us all to get tutoring in our first week! All in all, I really enjoyed the class and I feel that my writing has improved a lot since taking this class.

Overall, not that bad, but by no means does she teach an easy class, and certainly not a fun one.
Lectures are mostly dull and boring, and basically she'll spend most of the time talking about interesting things she saw from the books/movies. Time goes by very slowly. She's a nice, but mostly uninteresting person.
Her assigned readings for the class vary wildly. Sometimes, she'll assign no or little reading. Other times, she assign a lot of very dense reading over a short amount of time.
From time to time, she'll give quizzes on the readings. Being an English writing class, you'd expect these quizzes to be based on symbols or themes or such, but mostly the quizzes just pick out tiny, nearly impossible to remember details from the books. You are allowed to use notes on the quizzes, but the questions are so random and based on unimportant details that notes are mostly useless. However, it should be noted that quizzes account for not a huge portion of your grade and she will often not grade them, many days, especially in the 2nd half of the quarter, will not give quizzes. There's also some opportunities for extra credit to bump up these scores.
You'll have two assigned books and a paper to write on each of them. The papers are the most heavily weight part of your grade (about 80% for both). You'll have a rough draft to turn in for both, after which she'll cancel class for a day to schedule an appointment with each student to discuss your paper. If you do poorly on the first draft, she'll replace that grade with the one from the 2nd draft. She's not the hardest grader, but not the easiest; if you can write well, an A on your papers is definitely possible.
The two books, at least in my class, were The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extremely dense and hard to read nonfiction book (20 pages in this book will take you roughly an hour to read. There are times when she assigned 80 pages of reading from it), and My Year of Meats, which is actually a very entertaining book and which you will be able to read fairly quickly. You will probably actually enjoyed reading this book.
She's also big on working in groups. She'll assign you all to go to a Farmer's market and write a short 1 page paper on. This turned out not to be that bad, and you don't actually need to go with a group (hey, you'll get a day in Santa Monica out of it). As a group, you'll also need to watch two documentary movies "Food, Inc" and "The Cove," do some group discussion questions on them, and do a group presentation comparing them for the final days of class. This isn't as bad as it sounds, because you aren't graded on your presentation skills, so you are allowed to sit and read from a pre-written sheet if you want.
Overall, its not a terrible class, and Prof Moe, while boring and inconsistent, isn't horribly cruel. If you are a pretty good writer, you just might be able to squeeze out an A, though an A- or B+ is more likely. Decent writers are likely to get B's. Poor writers maybe worse. I am a pretty good writer, so I just barely managed an A.
One final note, and my biggest complaint and piece of advice: DON'T BUY THE COURSE READER! She will try to make you buy a $65 course reader, which we had readings from ONE night, and we not even quizzed or graded on the readings. I bought it and hated her so much for making me waste money like that.

I took this class my first quarter at UCLA and she really isn't as bad as some of the older comments state. However I do understand why people have such a negative view of her. Her classes sometimes get a bit boring but the theme of the class (food) is actually extremely interesting and will change the way you think about food (at least it did for me). She gives a ton of reading to do for homework and the only way I caught up was to get ahead in the reading during the weekend. Also, there are quizzes basically every time you go to lecture but the good thing is that they are open note so if you do the reading and take good notes it really shouldn't be a problem. Additionally, she makes us do, in my opinion, useless other assignments such as group projects to analyze movies and visit a farmers market. I mean, its suppose to be a English "composition" class. I would have rather written another essay (we only need to write 2) instead of doing all the other assignments she gives to us. She is a fair grader, I just wish she wrote more constructive comments on the essay she hands back to us. However, we do sign up to have a 5 minute essay conferences with her and she will answer basic questions after class. I got solid A's on both of my papers but I ended up with an A- in the class. I did not like the group projects because I was the one who ended up doing the majority of the work in my group and she assigned the groups to us (I think this is what kept me from my A). If you put the time and effort needed, getting an A is completely doable.

I entered this class thinking it was just an easy english class, like in high school. Of course, coming into my first quiz, although they are open note, I received a check minus in about 80% of my quizzes. There was a quiz on the reading in just about every lecture and the questions will be on the tiniest little details that I definitely overlooked most of the time. That being said, if you transcribe the entire book into your notes, you'll be fine. She assigns a few short essays (a page or a page and a half) and she gives you either checks, check pluses, or check minuses. There are two essays, and no midterms or a final. The final paper is worth about 50% of your grade, which is basically what saved me because my quizzes were mostly all fails. I recall her saying sometime in the 3rd quarter or 4th that if you were failing most of the quizzes then you should consider dropping the course. This scared the heck out of me but I stayed in the course because I had no choice. I got a 92% on my final paper and an 89% on my second paper, my final grade was an A, shockingly. Other than the quizzes and the TREMENDOUS amount of reading, this course is not as hard as I made it seem while i was in it. Oh and the theme is on the food industry, which was interesting but at the same time scary because I love fast food and junk food and all sorts of bad foods.

I had this professor during my first quarter here at UCLA. People write really ad reviews about her, which I think are wrong and totally unreasonable. At first, when I read those negative reviews, I was really scared and wanted to change my professor. Luckily, I counldn't find any other openings in other classes. If you do all the readings and talk to her about your papers after class, your grade will reflect that. She is a kind of person who wants intertaction with all her students and want to know how everyone is doing in the course. I got an A minus and a B on my papers and ended up with a A minus in the class. It was not a hard class but make sure to keep up with the readings because there are quizzes on readings almost every time we meet in the class. She gives extra credit and that helps a lot too. So, overall take her! She is a good professor and cares about her students. Don't let the negative reviews (that other students have written about her) change your decision.

A very good professor! I loved the food unit that was the theme of the class. i feel that i have learned something that I will take with me for the rest of my life. The reading amount is fair. Just be sure to understand the material because there is a quiz almost every class on the previous nights readings. There are two papers in the class and Moe meets with you personally to make sure you know what she expects on the papers. My writing improved significantly due to those conferences. Some people feel overburdened by the class but it really is not that bad. Just participate in class and show her that you are making an effort and the grade will take care of itself.