While the information of the class was interesting, this class is absolutely horrible solely because Professor Anderson is a nightmare. She may act like your friend and try to talk things out with you, but she will then report you out of no where for AI use of for cheating on an exam. She reported over half the class during the Spring and half also in Winter (verified by a friend that took her during Winter) for AI use in class, even though in the Spring we were literally required to share our document with her so she could see our work process. I worked for days on the midterm paper, literally like almost a week to write this paper, and the TA's finished grading the paper within the first week after completion, but we didn't receive grades back until Week 9 (we submitted the paper Week 4 or 5 I believe). The TA's informed us that the professor had regraded every single paper dropping the class average from nearly an 85% to a 45% where every got 50% or below on the paper. We were given very little instruction and no rubric for the final exam, and because this was an online class the students turned to the GroupMe to seek help and guidance for studying. The professor then infiltrated a private class GroupMe, without making her presence known, to then take out of context many messages and reported a large sum of students to the Dean for solicitation and cheating on the final exam. Many have had to deal with these cases throughout the summer and are either prevented from graduated, or for those that have graduated, have a diploma and transcript hold. DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. I don't care if it seems like an easy class, dealing with this has been an absolute nightmare and I do not wish this on anyone.

I had physical health issues that pulled me away from the course. Emailed the teacher for an extension on an assignment which she requested proof of my health issues. She then replied "you know the late work policy" after submitting medical documentation and subsequently denied my request for an extension. Also reported the majority of the class for academic dishonesty which included me due to my midterm being "beautifully written" with the proof of "I searched on google if you can cheat". Absolutely avoid this teacher at all costs. If your work is awful, you get reported for cheating; if your work is "beautifully written," you get reported. She should not have a job at a professor if she is so paranoid about cheating that she forgoes any logical thought.

I promise you this is the worst professor you could take at UCLA. If you want to spend your time contacting the chair of sociology then take this professor. She provides extremely unclear grading criteria and contradicts herself in the rubric and when grading. Everyone failed the midterm ESSAY. She has falsely reported many students to the dean for AI use and cases were dismissed. She has a ridiculous AI policy and should not be teaching at this level nevertheless an online class. You are quite literally being set up for failure in this class. This only good part about this class was my TA. The professor goes back and re-grades what the TA's have already published just to take away points. Do yourself a favor and save yourself a headache and do not take this class with this professor. Interestingly enough, this class is about mental illness, seems like she could use some of the material for herself.

Horrible teacher, never take her classes. All the bad reviews here about her are true. At first TA gave me all the best grades, and at the end of the course the professor reviewed all my grades and gave me F. Too many assignments for the summer course.

Do not take this class if you are lazy. Yes, the professor is a bit of a crazy woman, she demands that everything be written in google docs first and you will not receive a grade if you do not provide the google doc link with your assignment. You cannot wait till sunday to turn everything in, the due dates are spread out throughout the week. Normally, all of this would deter me from a class, but I have been genuinely enjoying it. There are so many assignments, that it does not feel so high stakes, and the topics are truly interesting. My warning is this: if you want a class that you can do the bare minimum in, keep looking. But, if you feel as though you can handle the quirks of this professor and are interested in the topic, you should go for it.

Avoid this professor at all costs. She is extremely not understanding, I had a medical emergency and was not given any sort of extension or help when my other two professors were kind enough to set up a meeting with me and allow me proper extensions/resources. For a summer session class there's way too much, we are expected to submit discussions that are basically asking for a mini essay and having to cite work where unnecessary. Weekly what is due is that discussion post that require you to read 2-3 materials and even watch a long documentary or movie, 2 or more replies, annotating 5 + comments on perusall, a quiz that often has unnecessarily tricky questions on it, and throughout the course we have two 8-10 page essays. This is OVERKILL for a summer class that's 4 units, understandable for a normal quarter. She also doesn't properly upload some of the material and its annoying to have to email her to fix all of it (had maybe 2-3 instances of this happening). Don't recommend, only take if its last resort.

Honestly top 3 worst professors at UCLA. Do not listen to any of the good reviews for her, she is inconsiderate and disrespectful. I caught COVID and had a fever for 3 days straight and she refused to give me any sort of extension. I can only assume she does not care about her students at all. I underestimated the amount of work she would give for a summer course. We had 2 discussion posts (500-600 words each), 2 quizzes, and had to annotate 2 readings each week. We also had 2 papers with both of them being 8-10 pages. AVOID HER AT ALL COSTS. You’re better off taking another class. -100/10 rating

I was so excited to take this class to learn more about mental illness, which I did. Sociology of mental illness itself is such an interesting topic, but this is the only redeeming quality of this class, which made it somewhat bearable. This class is unnecessarily difficult, with three 8-page papers, including a research project which asks you to do nearly impossible "research", weekly discussion posts, and a 5-page single-spaced data write-up. I took this class as a fun, general elective to broaden my understanding of mental illness (mind you - there are essentially no prerequisites, so I'm sure most of the enrolled students are NOT sociology majors) and it was nothing but a pain because of the outrageous expectations of the professor. She was very obviously unwilling to help students, evident by her unhelpful and late responses on Slack that always seemed to be written in a condescending tone. The feedback on papers was always very negative and it would provide no insight as to what worked/went well, which was extremely discouraging. Ultimately, the workload was too heavy for the "elective" nature of the course and while this professor is definitely an expert in regards to this material, she just isn't fit for teaching it to others. Unless you're a sociology major and truly need this class, don't bother.

I was so excited to take this class winter quarter of my freshman year for the diversity requirement. The title of the class made it seem so interesting. However, the first day of lecture was already bad. The professor had a boring, monotone voice that you could easily fall asleep to while in lecture. She then said we would be reading 200+ pages a week. You could see why I started to hate this class. 200+ pages + a biweekly journal assignment + midterms/final/essays that had everything to do about the readings, only a little part was based on lecture. To make things short, this isn't what I expected out of a 4 unit class that I was taking for a GE req. However, I managed to obtain a B even when I basically didn't do any reading and rarely paid attention in lecture, I'm not sure how I managed that. But, If you are looking to take this class for the diversity GE, trust me, there are better options, don't do it. Wouldn't recommend this class to anyone that was considering it for a GE.

Just as everyone has already warned you; the workload is pretty intense. The readings are very interesting as are the lectures. However a weekly 2 page journal along with 3 writing assignments is a lot to take on. Our class did not have out first assignment due until week 7. The next on week 9 and the final research project on week 10. In total I wrote 50 pages for this class which is an average of 5 pages a week. Interesting, yes, challenging, yes, a lot of work, yes. She did warn us in the beginning that the assignments would all be due towards the end of the quarter and I have to say, it was more grueling than I first realized. It is hard to say if I would take her again, as I found the class stimulating, but a lot of work. An A is very possible but you will work hard for it.