Professor Park is an exceedingly empathetic, kind, knowledgable, and caring human being. He explains things wonderfully and is always open to comments/questions. As long as you attend class and listen to his lectures you will be fine. I highly recommend him for any student at UCSB.

I also enjoyed his class, he uses powerpoint lectures and expects you to do the reading. He is VERY accomodating, just talk to him, encourages students to use office hours, esp to talk about paper, even provides books to use if you're stuck.

I started off poorly in Professor Park's class because I didn't cite readings. While I felt discouraged at first, I enjoyed his lectures and found the subject engaging. Once I went to his office hours I saw how easy it was to succeed if you do the readings for understanding. I ended up going from a B- to an A in the class.

Professor Park may have a tough teaching style, but if you put in the work, you'll learn a lot. The readings can be overwhelming, but resources like Unstuckstudy and study sessions make it manageable. Overall, an engaging class worth taking.

I really liked this class. I took ASAM130 and it was very reading heavy (like a book every two weeks), but his lectures were interesting and he posted all the lecture audio and slide so you could miss class. I was expecting him to be a harsher grader but he was more generous. Very interesting and knowledgable professor as well.

Professor Park is very a knowledgeable and inspiring lecturer, and the content of this class is fascinating. However, this class has a huge amount of dense reading (up to ~120 pages/week). Your grade will mainly be based on three essays on select readings, and grading heavily varies by TA, so a C paper to one TA may be an A paper to another.