This professor is amazing at lecturing and clearly very passionate about ancient Rome. There are weekly quizzes that are easy if you go to lecture (which I recommend if you want to get anything from the class) and an in-class bluebook midterm and final. The midterm and final require a lot of studying for IDs and essay responses. Great class.

As someone who is not in the Classics department, I was worried this professor would be hard considering some of the reviews. As long as you go to class and read at least the primary sources, you should have no problem getting an A. He provides a lot of transparency about the midterm and final so you know exactly what to study. He's very nice!

Professor Morstein-Marx is a super caring guy but I had a super difficult time following all of the material in his course. He expects you to know a lot for the exams and he does not post the slides online so all you have to go off of is your super rushed notes because he goes through the slides so quickly.

The reading help but the lectures are practically what you see on his quizzes and exams. Just listen intently and take some notes to review and you're fine. I took this class to avoid the lefty nonsense classes on campus.

This class has been one of the best classes I've taken at UCSB. I'm an Econ major and needed an UD elective and chose this one kind of randomly. He's such a cool professor and his lectures are super interesting. The readings are pretty easy and entertaining. I'd recommend this class to everyone

My favorite professor at UCSB thus far. I went to every single 9 am MWF lecture simply because he made the lectures so interesting and I didn't want to miss one! Midterm and final were straightforward-identifications and short essays. Lots of reading is required, but you could get by with skimming if you pay attention in lecture. Would take again!