She was nice if you are on her good side -- there is DEFINITELY favoritism. This one poor girl in my class totally got verbally bullied for several by the professor after her first presentation, that she "didn't follow instructions," it was "ungradable," etc...when in reality I genuinely thought it was a very good presentation. There were certainly students who did worse and didn't prepare and didn't receive that kind of treatment. Furthermore, some students clearly were doing other homework during the class, but only certain students would be called out for not paying enough attention. The favoritism really, really bothered me. She was helpful and nice if she liked you. I wasn't necessarily on her bad side but I felt very bad for the people who were.

I feel as though I came in eager to learn the ins and outs of true American conspiracy theories and I was left with a bunch of conspiratorial mush about theorists. Not quite sure how this class is an upper-division offering, or an offering at all. She has a disdain for AI, and thanks to a student in her prior class that got caught for cheating, our tests were in person and closed note. A midterm and a final, with both weighing equally in your final grade is tough especially when lectures and parameters for what we were going to be tested on was unclear. I honestly don't know if I would've been better off skipping lecture than going, but she did drill us that students who didn't come would fail. I signed up for this for the seemingly interesting material, and take home exams, so if you're on my same wave length AVOID! OR if you're up for the challenge, enroll. Either way I am glad to have finished the course with some sanity left, but I do get trauma when "anomaly" or "karl popper" is mentioned.

really sweet professor. only hard part is you have to memorize your speeches and present them to the class. but you can make them on anything.

Professor Arbabzadah has such a deep understanding of what she teaches that it makes it so enjoyable to hear her speak.
Though I loved going to her lectures, it is very manageable to skip and still do good on the exams as she uploads slides for every lecture.
A downside is that her content may be just a little confusing at times. She might not be clear on what the exam entails, or she might display information in a super confusing and contradicting manner.
However, the class is easy. She goes over any required reading in class, the exams are super simple, and the workload is very minimal (three exams, 33% each).

Professor Nushin’s class has definitely been my favorite class at UCLA so far. I really feel like I became more of a confident and articulate speaker given all the practice that was offered in her class. The class contains of 3 speeches, and you can talk about whatever you want on them which I thought made the class very fun. But, the class doesn’t consist of just speeches, it also consists of a lot of talking and a lot of participation. Additionally, Professor Nushin is very nice and sweet, but isn’t nice and sweet when it comes down to people flaking on the class; she hates the flakes! One thing I found really helpful about this class was not only the relationships I built with my classmates and the professor because it was so small, but also the feedback I received from them when I practiced my speaking. I definitely recommend you take this class with Professor Nushin, because she is outstanding!