I'll split this review into two parts the class and the professor:

The class: The class has a lot of work, she gives a lot of work that can sometimes be too much and feel unnecessary. Participation matters and your final is a final portfolio of your essays written throughout the class. There are also presentations and attendance is taken.

The Professor: Professor Dickey is a wonderful professor. She is very funny and is very forgiving/understanding with late work and sometimes deadlines. Her lectures can give you the inspiration to write essays and her feedback for your essays are very helpful. I really do not like English but Professor Dickey made the class fun and interesting.

Professor Dickey truly cares about her students. From the engaging projects, papers, and informative group discussions, Professor Dickey has truly made me a confident and better writer. The class is discussion based which helped me develop a sense of critically analyzing a film’s underlying message in regard to race and racial identity. She strives to inspire and develop powerful writers. Like any other class at UCLA, there is a good amount of work but at the end of the day it is worth it, what you put in is the grade you will receive so make sure to participate, do the readings and watch the movies. I highly recommend this class for anyone trying to fulfill their diversity requirement or writing 2!

I took 3 STEM classes along with this class winter quarter. And honestly this class took MOST of my time. She is a great professor and you learn a lot of stuff about diversity which is very interesting. However, the workload is just INSANE. She makes you watch upwards to two movies and read passages in a span of two days. Also, your final grade is basically just one essay because you revise it and submit the final draft in your portfolio. Overall, I would seriously look into other professors because the workload is just too much and not worth it especially for an ENGCOMP3 class.

the class had an interesting concept - constructions of race and race relations in film and media - and is certainly for people who have a more mature understanding or experience surrounding these topics. however, dickey isn't particularly the most transparent when it comes to giving feedback, marks, or any gage on how well you're doing in the class until the very end. i thought i was acing these writing assignments and i got a's for those, but apparently i had not participated enough in class despite contributing at least once a lesson which led me to my a-. nearly dropped out cuz this was supposed to be the easiest class i will have ever taken. i managed to get an a+ for writing II, so dont feel too disheartened if you don't do so well for engcomp 3 (fuck this shit)

Some people would say that this class had a lot of work, and it did but it was always "fun" and very personal so in the end it isn't really as much as it looks like in my opinion. The topics and movies we watched were interesting. I really liked the professor, she was always understanding. The one thing that I kind of hated however was that we didn't get a single grade until our final one (just one for the entire quarter, no individual ones). It makes it kind of hard to figure out if you need to put in more work during the quarter and because she doesn't give her email, you have no way of contacting her if you want more details about your grade.

This class was half online and half in person. As long as you show up, participate, and turn in everything on time you will be totally fine. Dickey is super nice and tries to personally connect with the class which is great.

As someone who genuinely hates writing, this class was not terrible at all. All of the assignments are very clear and quite easy to grasp. And besides the class itself, Professor Dickey is also very nice! I recommend this class if you're looking to easily fulfill your writing requirement.

Professor Dickey is one of the best professors and person I have ever met. Classes always started off with checking in and asking how everyone's day was. Then, we went into a discussion about the movie, article, essay, or whatever there was. I really enjoyed the class, but the workload is insane. Out of all 4 of the classes I took that quarter, I was up so many nights trying to finish over 10 essays. A lot of the assignments are due back to back so I was constantly stressed over the next essay. Luckily, the prompts and assignments that Prof assigns are quite interesting and engaging, so I recommend.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!!!!!!!!!!! This is hands down the worst class I've hate to take so far at UCLA. Took this course with my cluster, math 31b, and econ 1. Originally, I entered UCLA thinking I might double with english and this class solidified that I will not be doing that.
Prof. Dickey is unclear and unorganized. She did not offer ANY feedback on any of our assignments up until week 10 when she graded two of our essays. For both of those essays, the grades she gave me (and from what I know, everyone else in the class) was ATROCIOUS. I genuinely have no idea why her BruinWalk reviews are so high. I met with her one-on-one to discuss my essays and her feedback was not helpful in any way and she seemed to ramble without making any constructive comments that I feel would actually benefit my writing in any way. My final grade was submitted on MyUCLA a week past the deadline and there are still only 2 grades on my BruinLearn so I have no idea how I got my grade. It is impossible to do well in an English class without getting any feedback the whole quarter. The majority of comments she wrote were about the EngComp3D styleguide (i.e. semantics) and had nothing to do with the content of my writing or the writing style. I was genuinely very excited to take this class with Prof. Dickey. I already fulfill the university diversity requirement through other courses and I took this class over EngComp 3 because the topic-- social constructions of race-- interested me. She has seriously butchered the content of this class and I did not take anything away from her lectures or class discussions. I could take my time to contribute something of value to the conversation but when I made a surface-level contribution about race that's what she decided to praise and focus on. I have no idea why she is still teaching at this school. Our last assignment was 500 words on why we didn't follow instructions. This class is about social constructions of race! Why aren't we writing about that???? PLEASE FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO TEACH THIS CLASS

Love this professor. I'm not a writing major but this class makes me consider it. She enphasize participation and group projects. Workload is more than average, but worth it. She gives clear instruction and feedback so you can improve. It's an easy A if you talk to her.