Stella Nair is the sweetest professor who is so passionate about her class. If you do the readings and follow along, you learn so much about such a fascinating culture. It has been one of the most interesting classes I have taken at UCLA.
There are pop quizzes to see if you did the readings so you must be on top of that. there is a midterm and a final test that are pretty clear to study for because she gives a study guide. there is one paper i believe researching an incan object. i highly recommend!

I love Professor Nair, she is clearly very passionate about what she teaches and really just wants students to succeed. This was the third class i've taken with her and she does preface every class that it will be reading heavy - which it definitely is. But if you do the readings and take good notes it's hard to not do well. Not an easy A but very doable.

Nair was an easy professor to listen too, her voice is pleasant and she did not inject too much of her own political views into discussions about history. She was a bit critical on tourists, which I thought was unfair because she often generalized them. The pop quizzes were also bothersome but Nair was lenient in giving other opportunities to balance this out, i.e. being present for group discussions. She gives you a study guide for the exams, but it consist of 6 extensive prompts that she chooses from on the day of the test. Thus, if you want to do well, join a study group to help ease the heavy workload! She makes clear how to get a good grade in her class, follow her guidelines and you will do well. Also, for the paper we got to choose an object from Fowler museum to do our essay on, which was a nice break from the norm. Overall the class was very interesting, Nair's lectures were fun to listen to, and most of the readings I enjoyed studying.