The class was pretty interesting but Professor Weber, while a nice guy, is not a good lecturer. One day he spent an hour and 15 minutes on one slide. Most of his lectures aren't very helpful. The tests are pretty hard even though the material is not difficult to understand. Your grade consists of a midterm, final, paper, and debate attendance.

This course is compromised of three grades; a midterm, a final, and a debate paper. He reads off the lecture slides which are also posted on canvas. He's a really nice professor, however the fact that your grade is based off of only three assignments was stressful.

This review isn't the most helpful as I dropped the class halfway through (the day before the final deadline). However, Professor Weber has to be the worst teacher I have had at UCSB in my four years here. The lectures are boring and dated. His accent makes it difficult to understand and he goes on tangents like no other. No one pays attention.

2 tests and one debate. debate is easy but like 10 pages. nothing can really prepare you will for the tests and studying for them requires studying everything. lots of info in every lecture and even more in the readings. the book is pretty useless. if you just look over lectures its an easy C i'd say. he is very nice and has a great personality.

One of the worst class I've ever taken. The class material is easy to understand but you are graded on arbitrary things that are not based on your knowledge of the course material. Extremely unreasonable and harsh grading.

I dont know about regular quarters, but I would stay clear of this class while its online. The competitive grading scale is very harsh for the Kialo debate, especially since it is worth 20% of your grade. The grades were not dropped until the very end of the quarter, so we had no clear sense how we were doing.