Professor
Hannah Appel
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Fall 2024 - Hannah was very engaged with her lectures and would answer questions if you didn't know something. Attendance/Participation for the discussion section are REQUIRED, but your allowed to miss one. There were two midterm exams that we had. First exam was in-person with short answer responses, where you choose 3 prompt questions to answer, plus one cheat sheet. I honestly didn't try hard on this exam, but ended up getting 99/100. Second midterm was a group project, my TA selected the groups and it was easy. All you have to do is create a 25-35 minute presentation where I received 100/100. The final was just a reflective essay, very easy! Took this class to fulfill my Diversity requirement. 100% recommend!!!!
Fall 2024 - Hannah was very engaged with her lectures and would answer questions if you didn't know something. Attendance/Participation for the discussion section are REQUIRED, but your allowed to miss one. There were two midterm exams that we had. First exam was in-person with short answer responses, where you choose 3 prompt questions to answer, plus one cheat sheet. I honestly didn't try hard on this exam, but ended up getting 99/100. Second midterm was a group project, my TA selected the groups and it was easy. All you have to do is create a 25-35 minute presentation where I received 100/100. The final was just a reflective essay, very easy! Took this class to fulfill my Diversity requirement. 100% recommend!!!!
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Fall 2021 - Professor Appel is by far the most amazing professor I have ever had. I took her IDS 1 class last quarter and learned so much, definitely use her office hours and ask questions. She's very clear and really politically active. I have nothing but good things to say about her! The midterm was an in class written essay (4 question I believe) and the final was a group project. She's AMAZINGG....it was like watching a TEDTalk every lecture
Fall 2021 - Professor Appel is by far the most amazing professor I have ever had. I took her IDS 1 class last quarter and learned so much, definitely use her office hours and ask questions. She's very clear and really politically active. I have nothing but good things to say about her! The midterm was an in class written essay (4 question I believe) and the final was a group project. She's AMAZINGG....it was like watching a TEDTalk every lecture
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Spring 2025 - Overall, mid–class with boring material. People stopped going to lecture since week 2. The course content is easy and straightforward to understand, but the workload is very heavy. While you have no midterms or finals, you have 4 papers in total to write. The first 3 paper are 3-5 pages, and the final paper is 8-10 pages. That is a lot for any humanities/social sciences class at UCLA where usually you would only get 2 papers with 5 pages each. The instructions Appel post for the paper are also all over the place and often inconsistent, which is a pain in the ass when you're trying to make sure you hit all the rubric when submitting your paper. She would send an announcement about it, talk about it on lecture slides and have instructions attached in assignment tabs and often they're full of errors/inconsistencies, the unprofessional nature of which pissed me off. The TA (Paust) is a nice and understanding person but anal in grading, deducting points if one of your references out of 8 references is not cited properly or you didn't define a concept in the way she expected, when the instructions didn't outline clear categories on how concepts should be defined. Lastly, I agree with others that Appel just yaps about her own opinions and is a very un-neutral professor who imposes her beliefs onto students. I also HATED cold calling because it just feels forced and unnecessary when it seems like she's using it as a way of forcing students to interact with her class.
Spring 2025 - Overall, mid–class with boring material. People stopped going to lecture since week 2. The course content is easy and straightforward to understand, but the workload is very heavy. While you have no midterms or finals, you have 4 papers in total to write. The first 3 paper are 3-5 pages, and the final paper is 8-10 pages. That is a lot for any humanities/social sciences class at UCLA where usually you would only get 2 papers with 5 pages each. The instructions Appel post for the paper are also all over the place and often inconsistent, which is a pain in the ass when you're trying to make sure you hit all the rubric when submitting your paper. She would send an announcement about it, talk about it on lecture slides and have instructions attached in assignment tabs and often they're full of errors/inconsistencies, the unprofessional nature of which pissed me off. The TA (Paust) is a nice and understanding person but anal in grading, deducting points if one of your references out of 8 references is not cited properly or you didn't define a concept in the way she expected, when the instructions didn't outline clear categories on how concepts should be defined. Lastly, I agree with others that Appel just yaps about her own opinions and is a very un-neutral professor who imposes her beliefs onto students. I also HATED cold calling because it just feels forced and unnecessary when it seems like she's using it as a way of forcing students to interact with her class.
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