Very hard to understand during lectures, and is very difficult to know what you actually need to learn. Unclear about what tests will be like and gave images for identification that he never discussed.
Going to his class is mandatory, which was difficult given how boring the content was. The midterm and "spot tests" were fairly easy, but the final essay prompt was extemely vague and hard to do, considering it has to be six pages long. Would not recommend.
Ogbechie can be confusing with what he wants from you, but his material is excellent and in other class will you learn more about pre-modern africa. I wanted to go to every class, because the art was incredible and the communities it came from I had never heard of before this class. I'm not an Art History major (1st class) and I loved this class.
Refrain from taking his classes at all cost. His tenure shows the decline of ucsb as a great institution. He changes his mind about midterms and final structures without notifying the students, and chuckles about it when the students are upset. Subject material is incredibly boring and not worth the time and headaches to figure out.
He is hard to understand and his notes make no sense. He got mad when someone asked about the midterm. The midterm had images on it that he didn't ever give us. Terrible, ew, don't take... EVER.
loved him as a person. so interesting and knows everything. his midterm was irrelevant, and he is very unclear as to what he expects from a student. disappointing grade in the end, considering i'm an art history major and went to every lecture.
I liked him i dont understand why you all didnt but he did a good job helping us understand the material through personal experiences. Easy A why not take it Your all weak!
Worst class of my entire undergrad years. Ogbechie is close to impossible to understand during lectures. The lectures have NO relevance to assigned readings. He is adamant about student attendance and respect, but then his cell phone rings (and he picks up!) in class! He didn't even show up for the first class and cancelled two of them. FIRE HIM!
He is easily the worst professor I have ever had. His accent is very difficult to understand. He is rude and disrespectful to students. He threatened to drop students if they didn't buy the book (even though you only read 100 pages out of it). Said that students were stupid for wanting to know about the midterm. DO NOT TAKE! He should be fired!!!!!
This class is horrible. His accent is impossible to understand, he is pretentious and a jerk. He told people that if they didnt buy the $100 text (that you dont even read in its entirety) that he would make them drop the class. He is unorganized and just uses museum websites for his info. Horrible Horrible class and professor
If you zone out in this class it sounds like he's speaking a different language. I cant say I learned one thing in his class, yet still got an A. We had to study 4 images for the midterm--piece of cake. Looking for a GPA booster? Take his class. No need to go to class either.
I HATED this class. He is very hard to follow and he bored the crap out of me. We didn't really learn about art in this class. It wasn't your typical art history class, more of an anthro class. Sitting through lecture staring at maps and trying to figure out what the heck he's talking about was not the business.
Awesome professor!!! His passion for teaching is unrivaled. Be prepared for very abstract concepts though. Thinking is required here, but essay tests give students the opportunities to express their ideas. You are about to be enlightened like never before. The key to success is to listen!!! The abstract nature of the class requires this. Good luck.
Impossible to understand. Super boring lectures. The tests had nothing to do with what was on the review slides. Avoid this class at all costs.
gets mad at you for being on your phone in lecture even though most people take this class for a GE. TAs are unnecessarily hard graders and dont explain why they give you the grade you got. class covers too much material in just 10 weeks and you have to memorize useless info for the tests which youll probably forget within a day.
This professor was rather disappointing. The most difficult part of taking this course was keeping my eyes open during lecture. It is clear that the professor has a true passion for African and Indigenous art - that is about all that is clear in this class. The TA's are no better; apple doesn't fall far from the tree eh?
Class was super interesting!! Only had a few assignments and a midterm + final which were the same structure on different artworks. You do have to memorize info on a set of selected artworks but making a simple google doc with the required info and reviewing it is enough to pass. Loved him!
Very much a class designed solely for art history students with a professor who is a giant in this particular field. I'll never take another art history class again, but overall the course was interesting enough. The memorization was terrible.
2 small projects/papers and 2 exams. Exams require you to memorize some artwork, and analyze them. The projects/papers were both really easy. The lectures are mostly boring, but occasionally interesting. I took the class P/NP, but I should have taken it for a grade, because I got an A- without much effort and missing 5 classes.
I really liked Prof Ogbechie's class! He was very passionate about the course material and I learned a lot.
Lectures are extremely unorganized and he missed several classes in the quarter. It was very unclear what we would be tested on which made it difficult to study.
Great professor and lecturer. I thought his class was interesting, informative, and the content was relevant and important. Unfortunately, I had a few very uncomfortable (mandatory) office hours sessions with him, and I felt he crossed the mandatory teacher-student boundary in multiple ways. Totally unfortunate, I loved the class up until then.
Attendance is 10% of the grade. Lecture is pretty boring, I feel like he has a lot of important things to say but he doesn't organize it well and it's hard to follow. Readings aren't tested on. Final was a 6 page paper on stuff we didn't really talk about I have no idea how I wrote that thing and passed the class
Lecture slides go from being just a single picture to having whole paragraphs. Makes you go to the useless lectures by taking random attendance. The course itself BARELY goes into depth because it attempts to cover 3(!) distinct cultures' art in 10 weeks. Final paper was the most vague and frustrating paper promt I have ever seen. Sometimes funny.