For PHIL130 not 124. Professor Roskies is a great teacher. If you're struggling with the material (which is challenging), and reach out to her with specific problems regarding it, she will help you. Incredibly intelligent, very thorough, and allows notes for exams - including the final. Grading and the feedback on graded material were both fair imo

I am surprised by all the low ratings. She is a difficult grader and assigns tough work, but is very knowledgable and if you put in the effort she is very helpful with feedback and is committed to helping you improve.

Professor Roskies is a challenging professor not because of the way she teaches but because of the breadth of her field and the lack of prerequisites for this class. I took 124G, and what really allowed me to succeed in this class was just doing the readings and taking PSY 120 (consc&cog). This class requires genuine interest and hard work.

The worst professor I've ever had. She does not lecture or teach. She gives readings otherwise the class is taught almost entirely by student presentations. If you mess up on one of the exams your grade is doomed. Gives no useful feedback and will not help you understand subjects. Slow grader.

This is the worst professor I've ever had at UCSB. She grades extremely hard for this to be an intro class, couldn't even give me a week off after my house flooded and caved in. Not very thorough teaching to the point where the TA's didn't even know what's going on. I highly suggest not taking this class.

In my opinion, very technically competent, but extremely close-minded - she knows what the truth is, and anything that contradicts what she already believes must be false, because she knows the truth, and therefore, if this new information contradicts what she already knows, she can reject it without consideration or evaluation.