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.

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.

Prof Blake is super caring and funny. Her class is well put together and there is quite a bit of reading that you must do in order to understand the class and get good test scores. However, some of the readings are interesting. The papers are pretty simple. TA created a study guide that basically had all the answers for the exams. 10/10

definitely not my favorite GE but requirements weren't absurd. op-ed essay was a little confusing and there was a lot of reading but it is an english class so. wish she had a better slide deck because sometimes it was hard following what she was talking about if you zoned out for a second, but a good class to take if the topic interests you

Professor Blake is probably the most enthusiastic professor I have had at UCSB. She is incredibly passionate for the 8am and I respect her for that. It's an easy GE if you participate and do the readings.