Professor
Sarah Stein
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Summer 2024 - Stein's lectures are all online, so it was easy to watch the videos on BruinLearn and follow the course content. She sounds very well versed in the subject of the Holocaust and the coursework is manageable for it being asynchronous. Stein put so much detail into every aspect of the weekly lectures, readings, and questions to the three assigned papers that it makes you think more in-depth about the events of the Holocaust. I highly recommend this course to anyone needing an easy GE over the summer.
Summer 2024 - Stein's lectures are all online, so it was easy to watch the videos on BruinLearn and follow the course content. She sounds very well versed in the subject of the Holocaust and the coursework is manageable for it being asynchronous. Stein put so much detail into every aspect of the weekly lectures, readings, and questions to the three assigned papers that it makes you think more in-depth about the events of the Holocaust. I highly recommend this course to anyone needing an easy GE over the summer.
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Fall 2019 - Professor Stein is one of the best lecturers I've had at UCLA! Her class is extremely engaging and she always manages to link the objects to broader concepts that are useful to understand modern times. Besides the content being super interesting, the readings help to understand different perspectives and add a lot to your general knowledge. There are 2 papers, the midterm is a scavenger hunt and one final. Highly recommend this class to anyone!
Fall 2019 - Professor Stein is one of the best lecturers I've had at UCLA! Her class is extremely engaging and she always manages to link the objects to broader concepts that are useful to understand modern times. Besides the content being super interesting, the readings help to understand different perspectives and add a lot to your general knowledge. There are 2 papers, the midterm is a scavenger hunt and one final. Highly recommend this class to anyone!
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Fall 2019 - I honestly think this was the most interesting history course I've taken, simply because of how Stein laid out the class. Instead of focusing on dates and events, she would focus on an object and then give all the cultural history relating to this object (rubber, bananas, plastic, etc.). For someone who doesn't normally like history it was very enjoyable, but she does speak pretty quickly and I always felt like I needed to take lots of notes as quickly as I could because there is no textbook; your notes are your main study tool. If you keep up with notes and actually listen, the quizzes and discussions are pretty easy. Midterm and final do definitely require some studying because there's a lot of content, but Stein is super chill and allowed us a cheat sheet to bring with us.
Fall 2019 - I honestly think this was the most interesting history course I've taken, simply because of how Stein laid out the class. Instead of focusing on dates and events, she would focus on an object and then give all the cultural history relating to this object (rubber, bananas, plastic, etc.). For someone who doesn't normally like history it was very enjoyable, but she does speak pretty quickly and I always felt like I needed to take lots of notes as quickly as I could because there is no textbook; your notes are your main study tool. If you keep up with notes and actually listen, the quizzes and discussions are pretty easy. Midterm and final do definitely require some studying because there's a lot of content, but Stein is super chill and allowed us a cheat sheet to bring with us.
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