Im a senior and this his class has definitely been one of my favorites at UCSB since I've been here. Really nice guy but also really passionate about what he teaches. Two papers which accounted for most of the grade but I found the papers quite fun to do as the lectures and readings are really interesting and engaging.

My favorite professor at UCSB! Very well-spoken, you can tell how much effort he puts into teaching. He makes extremely confusing topics sound simple. I'm always zoned out in other lectures, but he kept me engaged the whole time. Very accommodating when I was ill and needed an extension, and at the end of the quarter with the COVID outbreak.

Professor Yaqub is a great lecturer and was super accommodating, especially amidst the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. Really nice guy who makes learning history interesting.

He's very kind, and does his best to make dry material interesting. However, there are many resources that can substitute for lecture. Barron's EZ 101 Study Keys for American history are solid gold. Unfortunately, they make lectures obsolete (and, he posts his slides on Gauchospace anyways). Very, very nice, but lectures aren't that helpful.

Salim is the best lecturer I've ever had. Makes them extremely interesting by adding videos, songs, impersonations, and other things to break the monotony of an hour+ long lecture. Can't recommend him enough. Be sure to study for the final and work hard on your essays! He's a great teacher, but that does not mean he's an easy A.

Prof Yaqub is a great lecturer, and is very adamant about his courses. I've taken three upper-div classes with him and all of them have been interesting and fairly graded. He usually assigns two short (4-5 page papers) in lieu of a midterm (woo!), and the final is very manageable. I highly recommend Prof Yaqub. He genuinely cares about his students