A consideration of major themes, issues, types of figures and phenomena, and traditions--all selected from the history of religion so as to illustrate the great variety of religious phenomena and to suggest some of the ways such things may be responsibly studied.

No Prerequisites

5

Units

Optional

Grading

1, 2, 3

Passtime

None

Level Limit

Letters and science

College
GEs Area E Writing
BUSTO R V
Rudy Busto
4.1
56 reviews
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ASAM71 . Busto R V 7 Months Ago

Just show up to lecture and pay attention and you'll get an A. The guy gives out extra credit opportunities like its candy. Skim the readings. You can really tell he's passionate about the material.

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ASAM71 . Busto R V 9 Months Ago

Not too bad if you go to class. Prof is a bit uptight about attendance and will go above and beyond to get people to show up even though attendance is not required for lectures. Overall not too bad but be prepared to got to lecture most of the time

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ASAM71 . Busto R V 10 Months Ago

sleazy and unprofessional!! do not recommend this prof/class

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ASAM71 . Busto R V 10 Months Ago

Horrible professor!! Very unprofessional and disorganized. Will go to extreme lengths to make sure students fail

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RGST71 . Busto R V 10 Months Ago

genuinely the most manipulative professor you will encounter. he refuses to post lectures until a few days before exams, refuses to upload grades into canvas (so your final grade is a complete surprise), cancelled all sections half way through the quarter, etc. for material the relatively simple, he goes beyond to make sure you can't succeed!!

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ASAM71 . Busto R V 10 Months Ago

this is the worst class i have taken at ucsb. professor busto goes above and beyond trying to manipulate his students, from not putting in grades at all into canvas and announcing assignments in class so students who don't come fail them. midterm average was a 66 and was only curved if you failed, very heavy reading load, terrible test format, etc

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