Stay away! His midterm and final are based on his lectures, which are largely incomprehensible, though the paper was fairly simple. Take this class with a different professor if you must take it.

He was too hard to understand; German.

So brilliant that he has no organizational skills! He loves comparative literature and it shows, but its hard to understand him through his accent. What he covers in class is helpful for the final if you can get from him what is important and what is just gabbing.

Brilliant scholar. A privilege to learn from him.

dull, difficult to understand...

by far the worst prof. I've had in my 3 years at UCSB. he makes his lectures up as he goes along, and takes up all the time he can by going off on tangents. we literally sit there and laugh at how horrible he is, how he doesn't seem to care at all, and how nobody in the class learns a single thing.

Brilliant scholar. Amazing mind. Wonderful hair.

Amazing professor. At first, you don't quite understand him or where he's going with all this. But as the weeks go on, you're just blown away by the implications of what he's teaching about language, the media, and the medium. So awesome. I HIGHLY recommend him.

This class was really hard. The reading was extremely complicated. The lectures were not very organized, since most of the time we were about two weeks behind. Maybe ok for grad students.