Professor Blake is one of the best professors I ever had at UCSB! She is so caring and gives phenomenal feedback on everything whether it be a paragraph, a thesis statement, or a paper draft. She made every text so interesting and her lectures are so enriching. She is very approachable and makes every student feel special. Take her if you can!!

Amazing professor. She will change the way you think about everything. So intelligent, so caring and helpful. It would be a mistake to not take at least one class with her. Highly, highly recommend.

The essays, readings, and pop quizzes weren't bad. The material as a whole is well put together. Requires a decent amount of effort, but reasonable for a GE. Her tangents were off-putting though, so I prob wouldn't take her again.

Disorganized rambles, there's a difference between "amazing inspirational Iectures" and "won't stop talking." 3 pop quizzes, each has questions on board for students to pick from, the answer 1 person gives determines EVERYONE'S SC0RE. Low-quality slides. 2 writing assignments, midterm, final. Extremely TA dependent, but otherwise easy.

amazing lectures and readings, great discussion with students. very passionate. lack of rubrics confused me for various assignments. historical context, discussed in lecture, not posted on canvas, but important for quizzes. if you want a *really* easy A ❌️ but if you want an engaging class & are okay with putting in more effort ✔️

Lectures are near 100% Verbal, with little to no visual reinforcement. No lecture notes are posted. I'm pretty sure the notes she reads off of are entire paragraphs which she just reads to us word for word. Easy to zone out and impossible to catch up.