this was perhaps one of the most interesting and insightful classes that ive ever taken at ucla. melissa is a god send of an angel and stimulates the discussion so thought-provokingly and respectfully. this content of this class is inherently political and polarizing, but melissa mediates the discussion with such grace that the discussion moves forward instead of going circular, and it becomes a nice melting pot of ideas, scholarship and stuff. this class has radicalised and i got to write about whatever i wanted tbh. take this class period