I took her Milton class and found it relatively easy. As a mainly lecture class, she presents slides and takes a fair amount of time on each of them. The reading was a breeze, actually; if you're the kind of student who waits until the week before testing to cram, it is entirely possible AS LONG AS YOU GO TO ALL THE CLASSES. She will, on occasion, try to engage students in discussions, but waits only until lecture has finished so that she properly presents her information. Yes, Kareem does not upload her presentations online because she expects students to go to class. She passes around a sign-in sheet just about everyday too. Midterms/Finals are a bit difficult, but fair, and she grades them fairly as well. Kareem also has a Reader who helps out with the papers and tests, and he is quite lenient (and reads 2/3 of the papers/tests).

Overall a pretty good professor.

After taking Shuger for 10A, this class seemed super chill and easy. Professor Kareem is a pretty engaging lecturer and always made efficient use of class time. The class consisted on 2 papers, one shorter and one longer one and a final gallery assignment which was pretty easy and cool to do. The class overall is pretty straightforward and fair, I would take Kareem again if given the chance.

Professor Kareem is very organized, and her lectures show it. Overall, I think she is pretty effective in getting what she wants you to know from each of the readings across.

While there is a lot of reading, I skimmed most of them because lecture was informative in general; she covers what you need to know and links that to the themes. I will stress that there is a lot of information to take in. I always took copious amount of notes every lecture.

There are three papers and a final exam. The final exam was long; I took the whole three hours and filled my whole blue book. The final consists of literary term identification (she gives you a list out of which she will choose beforehand), short passage ID in which you ID the text and write about its significance/relation to the text as a whole (not too difficult because they were either passages covered in class or there was some clue that they were linked to the text), and an essay. For the essay, you are given some prompts to choose from and basically have to trace how a theme has changed across the literary periods covered in the class.

I thought the grading was fair. But I had a good TA who helped a lot when I was writing my papers. I know I definitely learnt quite a lot from this class.. Overall, I think this class is difficult but fair. Just be ready to dedicate a lot of time to this class.

She's an intelligent woman who is genuinely concerned with student progress but she's amongst the newbie of professors that feel they've got something to prove. It was quite difficult to follow the majority of her lectures because she emphasized the authors more than class themes. Also, she had a tendency to invite aspiring English professors to guest lecture for the day. With material presented through PowerPoint, of which isn't made available beyond lecture, she can be perceived as overwhelming given the enormous amount of info presented, or contemporary if you're the type that can soak the slides up as fast as they appear. On the other hand, she's very approachable and will help where she can.

Very smart, very efficient lecturing style. She focuses on the most interesting passages, and brings up thoughts that are new and fascinating. Very thought-provoking and organized.
Would definitely recommend!

Professor Kareem is brilliant, but isn't quite effective at communicating her ideas. Lecture can be somewhat dry, even boring, but everything she says is well thought out. I only realized how insightful her literary observations were while I was reviewing the quarter's notes in preparation for the final exam. To succeed in 10B, take long, detailed notes - nothing is too arbitrary. She doesn't provide her notes online, so be sure to copy everything down and then some (I usually typed out about 4 to 5 pages per lecture, and my fingers were always flying). The final exam was one of the most tiring exams I've ever taken at UCLA - you definitely need the 3 hours. It consists of literary term identifications, identifying passages and writing short responses on them, and a LONG (90 minute) final paper about themes spanning all the literary periods featured in 10B. All in all, I feel that Professor Kareem discussed great ideas, but not in a way that stuck with me. I couldn't really tell you the core ideas I was supposed to walk away with, which may put me at a disadvantage for 10C.

This class is honestly pretty difficult, but not too bad depending on your TA! The TA I had fall quarter (Seth) was very nice, but made us write a paper every single week... which was a lot. I much prefer my more laid back TA for winter quarter (Sean) who hosts more conversation-based sections. It's a lot of reading, so if you don't enjoy reading lengthy (and extremely difficult to decipher) dissertations written by age-old philosophers, I wouldn't suggest it. As for Professor Kareem, I found her to be a little difficult to understand at times, especially compared to Dienstag. Her points aren't nearly as precise or engaging, but she's an okay lecturer.

I liked this class overall, but I definitely think Prof. Kareem is the weaker of the two lecturers. She's a nice enough person, and she has her moments, but in general her lectures didn't add much if you did the reading. She reads off the slides and isn't as engaging as Dienstag (the other prof for the course). I mostly paid attention but for her lectures it was like a rest day because I could zone out more.

Professor Kareem gives a really good lecture! She's very passionate about her topic and it shows. Her lectures are quite interesting and engaging, and I loved her dry humor. It is an impressive feat to make such old, out of date literature seem so interesting and worth delving into. To get the most out of this class to become a better writer and analytic, make sure that you talk one on one with your TA and go to office hours.

Professor Kareem gives good lectures and is a likeable person, clearly loves what she teaches. I struggled to keep up with the readings (in lit for this time period, long readings are unavoidable) and recorded lectures, so I didn't get as much out of the class as I'd have liked. But I appreciated my laid-back and kind TA, Tony, and his feedback on my essays. Only complaint is I never actually saw my grade for the final gallery assignment and it doesn't show up in the gradebook. I think i was supposed to contact him if I wanted to see it. I didn't so. My Bad