Does not use slides during lecture, which sucks if you like taking notes. Would mostly ramble and wouldn't talk about the assigned reading until the last 20 minutes of class. Very dense and boring overall. Had a great TA, so the midterm, paper, and online final were graded nicely. Fairly easy class, the lectures just drag on so horribly long.

Professor Gilmore is an INCREDIBLE professor. His lectures are incredible; he speaks about interesting and thought-provoking topics. I wish he taught more courses at UCSB! I highly recommend ENGL 122NE and just Tim overall.

Professor Gilmore's lectures are very off the cuff, using reading materials as supplements to class dialogue. Can ramble sometimes but overall very interesting lectures that get you thinking about your place in the world. The assigned novels and poems were great, two in-class essays and a research paper were majority of the grade.

I love his lecture style, doesn't make you stare at a powerpoint for an hour, allows natural discussion to flow through the class period. Loved everything we were assigned to read. He also was very open to modifications for essay prompts and would rather read passionate writing rather than AI slop or someone who's just trying to answer the prompt.

Easy class if you keep up on readings

Eh, I took this class cause I needed the credits for ES and lit but wouldn't recommend. Lectures are all over the place with very little organization. As far as ES classes go this one's pretty boring, I would much rather take pretty much any other ES class instead of this one.