As long as you paid attention in lecture, you'd be fine. People just hated her because she didn't put a lot on her slides, but you're in college you shouldn't expect to just be able to copy off everything on the slides and not have to think for yourself. TAs were really helpful, the readings were light, she even gave extra credit opportunities.

thinks she's THE chosen one in political science and not having any words on any slides and no clear grading criteria, fair because "she said so!".

just no, she's awful... thinks she's too good to respond to emails as if a student doesn't pay thousands of dollars in tuition already.

I had Coggins last quarter(yes the infamous failed first midterm), and I want to emphasize that she is not that bad. While she was kinda mean, she ended up allowing us to drop our scores. Never had issues with emailing/office hours were helpful! She is passionate about her subject/seemed frustrated by people skipping section and not doing readings.

boring lecturer, her slides consist of irrelevant images, her quizzes consisted of inaccurate answers, and she was a nightmare to contact (the first email she EVER responded to was 3 weeks AFTER THE QUARTER ENDED about a grading discrepancy). midterm: 120 F's, 58 D's out of 279 total students. class is not hard tho just know what a tariff is lolz

She is probably…no the worst teacher at UCSB. She is very unhelpful, super sarcastic and doesn't really care about the class. Like 70% of the class failed the first midterm and had the audacity to blame the students. NEVER take any pol s class with Coggins.