He's a really nice professor but his lectures can be a bit boring because he just talks about the readings. Theres 2 assignments that are site reports (you'll have to go around sb at evaluate your site) that are very confusing and take alot of your time. The final is a synthesis essay on the data the class has collected.

McFadden is a super nice guy and his TA is just like him, super caring and easy to get along with! The course is graded on 4 field projects and that's it. Be sure to read the materials he provided and apply those terms in the projects. Highly recommended for GEOG and Non-GEOG students who need some upper division credits.

He's so nice! We had 4 field reports to do that weren't too bad. Def take!

This class is probably one of the best ones in the geog department. Class is just 3 site reports, no tests or midterms. You go out into SB and Goleta to evaluate sites and write about them. A really interesting class that makes you go out and about and explore areas outside of the school. Changed the way I viewed topics covered in class.

This class is extremely interesting, McFadden is almost aggressively average. The human embodiment of white bread. Perfectly fine, clear lecturer, assigns interesting readings, but awkward, not particularly funny, just blasé. So, take him if you're passionate enough about the course's subject material to keep yourself interested, because he won't.

Easy exams, technical but straight-forward labs. He seems like a sweetheart honestly. He had a few lectures that were pretty interactive which I liked. On the other hand, some lectures are like watching a black and white movie.