POL SCI 143C
Politics of American Suburbanization
Description: Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of political, social, and economic evolution of American suburbs, particularly in post-WWII era. Dominant themes focus primarily on historical patterns and implications of U.S. racial/ethnic inclusion and exclusion; class conflict and gender roles; classic and contemporary theories of metropolitan governance; and civic/political implications of American suburbanization. Select topics and case studies include housing, schools, and taxes; immigrant and ethnic minority suburbanization; suburban sprawl and uneven growth; suburban decline; and regionalism. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2026 - The content of the class was fun to learn about. The professor, however, is one of the rudest professors I have met at UCLA. She is impatient and unkind, and also very easily irritable. She is unclear and inconsistent with her expectations and if you come to her for help, she gets very annoyed with you. She claims that we can find all the answers to navigating the course on BruinLearn but I had the hardest time finding things on her webpage and I’m usually fine when searching course sites for answers. It’s ironic but also baffling that professors have reached a level of entitlement where a student asking for guidance is an inconvenience for the TEACHER. She’s always ready to argue even when I would respectfully approach her and wait for email responses that took weeks for her to get back to me - sometimes never at all. She also had very unnecessary rules and told us we would take five quizzes and she would keep our top three scores, then she said we “misunderstood her wrong” and that we are actually only supposed to take three and those will count as our scores. She doesn’t give extensions on quizzes even with justifiable circumstances and sometimes even refuses to help when coming to her for guidance. She also had many unnecessary assignments that took up time for no reason and had so many requests that if we didn’t follow she would’ve given us zeroes for the entire assignment. For example, we needed to include our links to the google docs so that she could see that it was us working and not using AI, but apparently if we type too fast we’re using AI. ??? If we didn’t comment the google doc link in the submission portal, we get zeroes. Her grading system is also very inconsistent. I could honestly keep going about her. I don’t even write reviews for professors but Vega is such a disappointment to the learning system that I had to write to let other students know. Don’t take her.
Winter 2026 - The content of the class was fun to learn about. The professor, however, is one of the rudest professors I have met at UCLA. She is impatient and unkind, and also very easily irritable. She is unclear and inconsistent with her expectations and if you come to her for help, she gets very annoyed with you. She claims that we can find all the answers to navigating the course on BruinLearn but I had the hardest time finding things on her webpage and I’m usually fine when searching course sites for answers. It’s ironic but also baffling that professors have reached a level of entitlement where a student asking for guidance is an inconvenience for the TEACHER. She’s always ready to argue even when I would respectfully approach her and wait for email responses that took weeks for her to get back to me - sometimes never at all. She also had very unnecessary rules and told us we would take five quizzes and she would keep our top three scores, then she said we “misunderstood her wrong” and that we are actually only supposed to take three and those will count as our scores. She doesn’t give extensions on quizzes even with justifiable circumstances and sometimes even refuses to help when coming to her for guidance. She also had many unnecessary assignments that took up time for no reason and had so many requests that if we didn’t follow she would’ve given us zeroes for the entire assignment. For example, we needed to include our links to the google docs so that she could see that it was us working and not using AI, but apparently if we type too fast we’re using AI. ??? If we didn’t comment the google doc link in the submission portal, we get zeroes. Her grading system is also very inconsistent. I could honestly keep going about her. I don’t even write reviews for professors but Vega is such a disappointment to the learning system that I had to write to let other students know. Don’t take her.
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Fall 2021 - Frasure is a great professor: clear, to the point, no BS filler-work, definitely cares about what she's teaching. You can't say that for the majority of UCLA's tenured political science faculty. The class consists of 2 "pop" quizzes (which are actually announced the lecture before), 2 1-page "reading critiques", a short-response midterm, and a 10-page final. They're all very straightforward. There are no tricks or questions that require you to know some strange, obscure content. I didn't expect to be interested in this class's content at all, but it proved to be very valuable background knowledge. I highly recommend this class.
Fall 2021 - Frasure is a great professor: clear, to the point, no BS filler-work, definitely cares about what she's teaching. You can't say that for the majority of UCLA's tenured political science faculty. The class consists of 2 "pop" quizzes (which are actually announced the lecture before), 2 1-page "reading critiques", a short-response midterm, and a 10-page final. They're all very straightforward. There are no tricks or questions that require you to know some strange, obscure content. I didn't expect to be interested in this class's content at all, but it proved to be very valuable background knowledge. I highly recommend this class.
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Fall 2019 - Professor Yokley is one of those professors were you actually enjoy the Way she talks and conducts the class lectures. She is funny and the lectures are engaging. Even though the grade distribution for the class is super high does not mean this class is super easy. You have 3 quizzes that you don't have study guides for which was probably my least favorite aspect of the class. Its not that the quizzes were extremely hard, rather not knowing what to study for can be a bit difficult but to be fair Professor Yokley hints majority of the questions therefore it is not impossible to get a high grade. In addition your lowest quiz grade gets dropped. You have a midterm in addition to the quizzes two short one page reflection papers ( again she gives 3 but one is dropped) and one 10-12 page paper. The class involves a lot of work and since there is limited time something is assigned nearly every week but don't be discouraged by the information I am providing, the class is honestly doable. Just communicate with the professor as much as you can but be sure to establish some form of relationship with your TA so you can be guided of what you are doing wrong or right. Minus the fact that this class doesn't have study guides it is an amazing course and Professor Yokley is pretty amazing herself.
Fall 2019 - Professor Yokley is one of those professors were you actually enjoy the Way she talks and conducts the class lectures. She is funny and the lectures are engaging. Even though the grade distribution for the class is super high does not mean this class is super easy. You have 3 quizzes that you don't have study guides for which was probably my least favorite aspect of the class. Its not that the quizzes were extremely hard, rather not knowing what to study for can be a bit difficult but to be fair Professor Yokley hints majority of the questions therefore it is not impossible to get a high grade. In addition your lowest quiz grade gets dropped. You have a midterm in addition to the quizzes two short one page reflection papers ( again she gives 3 but one is dropped) and one 10-12 page paper. The class involves a lot of work and since there is limited time something is assigned nearly every week but don't be discouraged by the information I am providing, the class is honestly doable. Just communicate with the professor as much as you can but be sure to establish some form of relationship with your TA so you can be guided of what you are doing wrong or right. Minus the fact that this class doesn't have study guides it is an amazing course and Professor Yokley is pretty amazing herself.
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