Not a great lecturer. It's hard to tell if he has a goal or lesson plan in mind for the day because he just stands and talks while occasionally pointing at the projected screen. However, his class activities are great and kept me engaged with assigned readings. More of a hands-on kind of person. Reading material is interesting too.

He seems to care more about teaching and literature than other teachers at UCSB. He takes time to explain the details but he doesn't dumb the material down, and he spends time with individual students, getting to know them and their work. Exactly what a professor should be.

Douglass is passionate about what he teaches, so much so that he tends to ramble. The lectures were pretty boring, but the novels you'll read are somewhat enticing. Three assignments that get progressively more time-consuming/difficult. There's a MPC Final with a notecard as a cheat sheet. You can get by in this class with low effort tbh.

Went to lecture and took notes but didn't read any of the course material except when necessary for assignments and was able to get by fine. If you pay attention and put solid effort into the assignments (3 major assignments), you can do well but it can get stressful in the moment. Final also isn't difficult.

I took this class as a mandatory course as a second year. The material felt quite confusing and as an English major, unnecessarily dense. But, I passed the course with a B, the projects/essays were simple. Prof Douglass cares deeply about what he teaches.

Class is relatively simple, graded on 2 straightforward assignments, a final essay + final multi-choice exam that's very easy with flashcard of notes. Tends to go on tangents and many are very bored during lecture, but attendance is mandatory through simple check-in quizzes. He's nice and passionate about subject, but very exhausting in lecture.