Everyone has a different style of teaching/learning. I personally liked Professor Yeritsian's method. You need to attend lectures to get the notes. The readings are helpful, but they are complex, so you will get the best bang for your buck attending lectures because the wording of the exams is based on the way the professor explains the readings/ theorist. My grade was based on 3 exams. !st exam, midterm, and final. There were about 20 multiple-choice questions and an essay question. No big crazy paper was due at the end of the quarter, which was refreshing for me. I've been doing research papers left and right because it's UCLA, but I liked testing on the material instead. Prof. was more forgiving in his grading of the essays as opposed to the TA. My TA was a harsh grader and didn't want to give points for being nearly off the concepts. Overall, I definitely like prof Yeritsian; he is straight to the point, and I like that. I could have perhaps gotten an A vs. A- if I practiced the written questions more. ( they go over questions in discussion, and 9/10 of those questions were the same ones we got in the exam) Very doable class, as long as you are present and willing to study a bit. For reference, I studied for the exams for about 5 hours 2 days before. The multiple-choice qs are straightforward. As long as you attended the lecture, you will be fine, but my advice is to definitely practice doing the written question prompts, and an A is achievable.

Professor Yeritsian is tough, but fair. His lectures are very informative, but you have to take good notes on them if you want to do well on the tests. The only reason to do the readings is to get a good score on the pop quizzes, but, if you test well, you don't have to worry too much about those points. The class is broken down into three modules, covering Marx, Simmel, Weber, and Durkheim. The lectures are divided into sections that the professor wants to focus on and those sections will serve as topics for you to study for the exam. The exams (3) were 30 multiple choice and 2 essay questions. If you know how to connect the topics to one another, you'll do well.

Actually a very insightful class if you are engaged. Tough class though overall as the readings are extensive with pop quizzes. Exams were ok but my hand felt like it was gonna fall off from writing after each one.

Interesting subject matter from a dry instructor. He likes to hear himself talk, and does not appreciate audience participation. No, not student, audience. He wants to make sure everyone knows how smart he is; very academic in his lectures and needlessly complicates subject matter with a lot of theory. Tests are hard, he does not give a study guide, and when asked, he told the class to be responsible for everything he taught. Essay questions were overly broad and graded very specifically.

Overall, walking into this class I knew it would be a challenge. The material is definitely challenging, however going to professors office hours was very helpful as he would take time and make sure the students understand the material on a one on one setting. Professor Yeritsian really cares about his students as he held review sessions on zoom for office hours during the holiday in order for us to be prepared for the assessment. This class is definitely a class where the work needs to be put in order to receive a good grade! All in all, I would recommend taking Professor Yeritsian. I am definitely going to take future classes he teaches!

Professor Yeritsian is one of the best professors I’ve had at UCLA. At first I found it a bit hard to adapt to his teaching style which is mostly lecturing with very few to no slides but I actually found that this kept me a lot more engaged. He mainly goes over the assigned readings in class (which he provides for FREE online so you don’t have to buy any textbooks) and makes sure to emphasize on 3-5 key points throughout the entire lecture, it’s very straight forward! I was surprised to see a bad review on him, one saying he doesn’t ‘care’ about his students but I actually think the exact opposite. He curves every test depending on how the class does (which only always ends up helping) and is very good at communicating both through canvas and during office hours, even after class. I felt a lot of support from him as well as the TA’s. I would take him again for a different class.

Professor Yeritsian is one of the best in the sociology department. I enjoyed his class so much since he is very clear with his explanations and provides many resources. Socio 101 was very clearly organized and straight forward with the syllabus. He knows the information very well and is knowledgable about the subject. I noticed how this professor is attempting to help you and work with you to succeed in his class. During his office hours, he will go over whatever concept you are confused about and assist you with beneficial tips on how to achieve your desired grade in the class. I would highly recommend anyone to take his class.

Find any other professor to take this class with. Prof Yeritsian talks FAST and overcomplicates subjects when they could be simplified. The material in this class is dense, and it is helpful when professors can help dissect it, but when you would ask questions, Yeritsian was always rude and condescending. You're out of luck if you a difficult time grasping the subject, props to those who did. The only nice thing about this class was the set up of the 3 tests. None of them were cumulative and they were all curved. Essentially no homework or writing, only readings.

was not accommodating at all in terms of people missing class due to sickness or covid. His course, I do enjoy how it was structured. 3 midterms that are MC and short answers, but are not cumulative of one another, and no final in his class. I loved how he formatted this class and if he does this format again in SOC102, I think I would take it with him again...maybe. He does explain stuff clearly if you ask him again, low-key kinda condescending but if you have a good TA that answers your questions well you should be good. Talks EXTREMELY FAST and NO SLIDES really!! His readings you could get away with not reading them all because he goes over them in class, but would highly recommend looking over the reading again after class because it'll make more sense. Did had to work for this A- though

Soc 101 is a difficult class, and in my opinion Yeritsian did not help to make it easier. I appreciated that all of our readings were free and accessible on bruinlearn, but I did not love the grading structure, in which we had 3 assessments which were each 1/3 of our final grade. While never bluntly stated, it did not seem like discussion attendance or participation aided one’s grade. Each exam was curved, and I appreciated that Yeritsian curved the last assessment more due to the TA strike. Also, I believe he curved the grades one final time after all of our curved assessment grades were tallied up. For some reason, the class was blocked for 1 hour and 50 minutes, even though the other soc 101 class at the time was only blocked for 1 hr and 15 minutes. The lectures were not recorded. Yeritsian went back and forth between taking up the entire time and letting us out halfway through class. If you do the readings in this course, take notes and attend lecture, you will be at a good place to study for the assessments. The content is not easy, but yeritsian uses most of lecture time to break down what the readings meant, which was helpful. I probably would not take this class again, but it is very doable, and the curve only benefits you.