Mark is a great guy with a great team of TA's. The class is interesting and its content is extremely useful. Discussions in section are engaging, and homework is straightforward. If you can, definitely try to get in Maka's section, he's also a very chill dude. I'd love to take another one of Mark's classes in the future.

I loved this class! You can tell Mark is such a genuinely good person and the stuff he teaches is so valuable. I recommend his course to any student at UCSB.

Mark was great you could tell he cared. Lectures and sections were very engaging. A lot of busywork hw (quiz, worksheet, and forum) weekly. Easy to complete just time-consuming. One project that spans the course, it is relatively easy with a presentation to your section at the end. Overall an easy but engaging and interesting elective course.

Going to repeat what everyone else has said: really interesting and engaging class, but an exceeding amount of busywork that is more annoying than you would expect. Take it pass/no pass unless you have the time to treat this like one of your major classes.

Great class!! It's not an "Easy A" but if you do all the work you'll be totally fine! I did all the work and studied a bit for the tests (which are harder than you'd think but totally doable) and got an A-! You can do it :) The class was sooo worth it. Great teachers, relatable subject... TAKE IT.

The class is full of very useful material but definitely takes a LOT of time to do all the reading and do the weekly assignments. I don't regret taking the class one bit though (even though I did all readings). The tests are difficult only because there's so much information that could possibly be on the test it becomes a little overwhelming.