Excellent! Highly recommend. Interesting lectures, few homework assignments. Harsh grader, but gives good feedback.

I absolutely loved taking this class with Professor Jaurretche. She posts all the materials to CCLE so you don't have to worry about buying anything. She always kept the students in her best interest and provided really engaging discussions about the texts we read. She grades the first two essays conference style, meaning you schedule an appointment and she grades it right in front of you. I'd say that was pretty scary, but she is a very fair grader. I would highly recommend her to anyone and would absolutely take the class again.

Prof Jaurretche is an incredible teacher! While in her class, I learned a lot about the history of Los Angeles and the LA river, which was a great introduction to the city. She assigns multiple readings each week but only requires that you buy one or two books, as she posts the PDFs online. The final project is based on some part of LA's history that you connect with. Based on the topic you chose, you are grouped into teams and engage with artifacts from UCLA's historical collection to create a "visual map" of LA. I always enjoyed going to Prof Jaurretche's class and seeing her around campus. She is very welcoming in office hours and wants to help in whatever way she can!

Professor Jaurretche is one of my favorite professors ever at UCLA. She is super sweet and dedicated to making sure you understand what she teaches. Her class was on "Los Angeles" and I found it to be super interesting. She is very particular about what she wants in her writing. She wants very concise writing--if you can say it shorter, do it. She is very nit-picky on certain phrases and clichés, so take not on what those are in the first couple of classes. Overall she's a super sweet professor who makes her class super fun.

Great professor, very nice and helpful. You have 4 papers total: 3 papers on your own (one of them a research paper) and a group paper.

Professor Jaurretche is a great professor. Coming into college as a freshman and being worried about my writing skills, she made the class and the art of writing fun and easy. Definitely would recommend taking her. Selling "The Big Sleep". Txt msg me at **********. If you think I already sold it, I probably still have it, so shoot me a message.

Great!

She gave us a couple papers and a small group project so overall it was an easy class. She's a very nice professor and is just really interested in the topics/books she lectures about. I have always hated English classes but this was a very easy A for me.

Disclaimer: I only had this class for a week, so please do not choose/drop this class based on my review.

EngComp3 classes are very very flexible in terms of the theme, and the professor has complete discretion to choose how to interpret and utilize the theme of the class. Professor Jaurretche based the class on LA's physical environment and geography. It took me just a few classes to understand how geography-intensive this class was, and that was a straight red flag because I hate geography.

The readings for the class are from the mid and late 90's and delve into detailed and complex geographical descriptions. Since the response papers are supposed to build on the readings, it is impossible to get through this class unless you can tolerate geography.

Professor Jaurretche does seem extremely sweet and helpful, which I presume also means leniency in grading. However, she is often slow and sometimes dry in her lectures. ONLY take this class if you can survive intensive geography.

Unlike other writing classes with fixed topics, Professor Jaurretche revolves her style around Los Angeles, allowing the course to cater to students' interests. The topic is fascinating, so I enjoyed the class a lot. The class started with the background and history of Los Angeles and required students to explore Los Angeles River as a group, then write about their observations. Then, you will focus more on your research paper on any topics you are interested in. Afterward, you will be assigned to a group (based on your personal paper's interest) to use the library's artifacts in crafting your final group paper and presentation. Lastly, you will have the final essay on the readings due in the last class period.

In terms of workload, it is reasonable but could be overwhelming for people not used to intensive reading and writing classes. The number of assignments in total could be a lot relative to other writing classes, with short reading reflections, one annotated bibliography, three individual papers, one group paper, and one group presentation. Professor Jaurretche is a sweet person, and I do not think she is a harsh grader from my experiences. She gave a lot of helpful comments for improving my essay, and she is very responsive, so it is easy to contact her. Overall, I enjoyed this class and would recommend it to anyone who wants to take Writing I to take it with her.