I was one of the few people in my discussion who genuinely enjoyed attending lecture. She's adorable and a bit eccentric and quite clearly adores teaching. Her lectures tend to be quite lacking in structure, and many of my peers had difficulty ascertaining what exactly they should be taking notes on. My advice would be to make a note of which passages she discusses, as well as paying attention to the important historical contexts or styles/literary devices/themes that she points out.

She is, for the most part, extremely approachable, considerate, and kind. If your paper is randomly chosen to be graded by her, she will be a bit harsh and leave at most two comments. However, you will have 3 short essays (4 pages!) to prove yourself, and the first one will only count 10% of your grade. I found it most helpful to hound my TA when planning my essays.

There is no midterm, and the final is graded more kindly than the essays are. Our final had (if I'm remembering correctly) 17 ID terms, and you only needed to correctly identify 15 of them, with the full title and the writer's full name. There is poetry explication, and then a final long essay in which you are given two "big ideas" and you pick one to write about.

It's definitely very helpful to keep up with the reading, but I'll admit that I fell behind on most of the longer works. Reading detailed summaries and taking really good lecture notes will carry you through just fine.

I really did enjoy this class, though ultimately the most electrifying lecture had been given by one of the TAs. Nevertheless, I would highly recommend taking 10C with Jaurretche!

The amount of reading Professor Jaurretche assigned for this class for absolutely insane. I would find it hard to believe that anyone is the class was able to complete all the readings in full (and she expected you to read them twice no less).

They also made no sense, we were skipping around between authors with no connection (or a rough connection) and I was often really lost between lectures as she provided little to no background info on the works or the genre or literary eras we were covering.

She wasn't terrible, she provided really in-depth lectures on literary style and techniques, but the 10 series, especially 10C should really have a focus on contextualizing pieces of literature and she ultimately failed entirely to do so, really just giving us a historical overview on Ireland in the 19th century.

Also, her essay feedback is legitimately awful. She gave me a B on my paper with no comments other than "I thought this was well-written and well-organized, but this is not the argument I would have made," which is completely antithetical to the goals of literary analysis.

Would highly recommend not taking a 10 series class with her, but maybe a writing class would be okay.

She's a great teacher teaching a very boring class. But that's just my own personal opinion.

I loved this class. I usually hate writing and do not consider myself a great writer, but this class was way more enjoyable than I anticipated. It is all about the history of Los Angeles and its landscape. The only scary part is she grades your papers in a conference one on one with you, but it's not as bad as it sounds. I definitely recommend taking her to satisfy writing 1.

Professor Jaurretche is a very caring and passionate professor. She obviously knew tons about the texts that we covered and led really interesting discussions. We would usually read one book or play each week, in addition to supplemental historical reading. There are no pop quizzes or anything so you don’t have to stress too much about falling behind. Your grade is based on research projects/essays. The one downside of this class is that there was only one meeting each week so we didn’t get to dive very deeply into any of the materials by analyzing them for, say, two days. That being said, I feel like I truly learned so much about Irish history and culture through this class, not to mention literature. If any of those things interest you, I would highly recommend this class.

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Maybe my favorite class at UCLA. It was on Ulysses by James Joyce, which quickly became one of my favorite books after this course. 10/10 recommend if you're willing to commit to the book and class. It will become your whole life (in a good way).

Class structure: read one chapter before lecture, discuss in lecture, the professor does around a 1-hour lecture after students present.
Assignments: Class presentation on one chapter with write-up essay, midterm close reading or book review essay, final paper
Attendance: mandatory, tardiness not preferred

I took this class to satisfy my Writing I. I honestly enjoyed this class as Professor Jaurretche created a comfortable and open class (zoom) environment. All the readings and assignments were readily accessible on CCLE which made it easy to access materials. She assigns a lot of readings which vary in length. She also assigns discussion questions based on the readings where we would discuss them in class. Usually 1-2 students would voluntarily share their responses to the class, and we suggest edits as a class. In total, she assigned us 3 essays. 2/3 were apart of a research project that she assigns later in the quarter. The longest paper was the research paper which was 7-8 pages of writing. She grades "conference-style" where you'll hop onto a zoom meeting with her for ~10 minutes (or less) and she'll read your essay, provide feedback, and gives you a letter grade. Scary in the beginning, but SO relieving once you finish. Her grading style is very fair. Overall a great class and professor!

Professor Jaurretche is amazing. The reading load is intense, but you'll learn a lot if you manage to keep up. I dealt with some personal hardships during the quarter and I am so glad I reached out to her. She really cares for both her students and these texts. Go to her office hours and get to know her!!! She also makes it clear that sometimes outside research is needed and is in full support of you watching video summaries etc. of the texts we read, which is really great.

Professor Jaurretche is an okay teacher, all things considered. She genuinely tried to make the class interesting, and she seems to really care about her students. The class topic was History of Los Angeles or something, which for some reason meant a lot of geography readings? Assignments were readings (often fifty pages of some guy talking about mountains?) and write-ups for each reading that you could easily make up if you skimmed the book.

Apart from that: one essay on the LA river (field trip included but you do it on YOUR OWN TIME), one group essay on a Special Collections object, and one Final paper on a topic of your choice. She grades really easy, if you’re an ok writer you’ll be fine.

FYI: If you take this in the Fall, she WILL host class the Wednesday before Thanksgiving break, and she expects EVERYONE to be in class that day. (The lecture was useless, skip it anyways).

I loved this class but it was so much reading! The amount of reading expected for this class was really mind blowing, and there were a couple instances where I had to read a 700 page book in the span of a couple days so that I would be ready for class in addition to textbook reading due on the same day. However, the books were great and interesting and if you fall behind on some readings it's not the end of the world! I never participated in class but attended every class and got an A. The paper was a big undertaking but was manageable! Professor Jauretche was sweet and engaging in class but a little unhelpful when I reached out asking for help or advice when I joined the class late. I ended up being pretty behind for the first part of the course because I was unclear about where to find the different things assigned and what was expected of me.