Professor Zeleny is a wonderful addition to UCLA's history department. She is very knowledgeable with a background as a medical historian and is very passionate about the subject she teaches. Her class is heavily based on group work so having friends in the class is a plus as you select your own groups. She assigns lots of busywork that require you to carefully pay attention to her instructions, which one may argue to be confusing. She also allows you to resubmit assignments to not only obtain the highest grade on it but to also have a strong understanding of the topics. Participation does matter in her class and you will be marked off is not present in lectures. Overall her course is not difficult but requires the completion of several easy assignments weekly. I would recommend her class to any students on the verge of enrolling. Disregard the poor review for this course and enroll for an easy A, Professor Zeleny is great!

There's no actual real content for this class...you pretty much end up learning things about how to make a website and convert urls. So if you actually want a history course with content this won't be it for you. She doesn't really lecture. Workload is manageable but it's based on a group project the entire quarter so if you don't like group work that is pretty much the entire class. Super easy A though.