Anna is intimidating at first, but she genuinely cares. If you have any ecology background, this class is a breeze. Lots of different types of assignments in the class, but overall, it makes it easier to get a good grade. If you are a GEOG major, take her for your physical geography requirements. Not the easiest, but so doable to get an A.

very sweet but moves through material fast, lecture participation graded through clicker

Professor Trugman was great in terms of truly wanting you to pass and receive a good grade. She provided thorough lectures, interacted with the class, and knocked several iclicker & quiz grades off in hopes we'd pass. Although, coming from someone who isn't Geography smart whatsoever, prepare to study & ready HEAVILY if you want to pass your exams.

Prof. Trugman was caring and encouraged students to go to office hours. This class was pretty difficult due to the content of it. If you want an easy GE this is not it. There were two midterms, one on tectonic activity, ITCZ, climograph, and the other on soils, stream activity, weathering processes, and one cumulative final; glaciers+ biogeography.

Anna Trugman really knows her material and is very caring for her students. She was going pretty fast in her lectures but it is understandable. Provides extra credit when the class asks her to. Prepare for weekly quizzes and assignments outside of class via online. No cheat sheet for exams; therefore, you have to study the material.

Tests are WAY harder than practice tests!!!! She goes very fast during lecture, but does post the slides. There is a ton of content and the questions on the tests ask for the most minuscule details that are not emphasized on the slides or in lecture. Didn't add any grades for participation for lecture until after the final was over!!!!!

Fantastic teacher and really great lecturer. Some of the content was challenging but she was very available and helpful during office hours.

Her lectures and assignments were straightforward and interesting. It was cool to read recent papers from the field.

Took this class online so it was very easy to get points just do short response and quizzes, but tests were ridiculous. She provides study guides that barely relate to the actual test questions. Midterms and finals were way more specific than she led on and was way too much info to be able to memorize. Would not take her again.

Good teacher makes this intro course really interesting, and very doable for someone who was not familiar with geography before.

She is a new professor here but she really knows her stuff well. A very approachable person and really cares about the students. She explained everything very clear and in good organization. Online labs were like exercise that were helpful to exams. Open book and open notes, easy A if you complete everything.

I am not a huge fan of physical geography, but professor Trugman made it so interesting! I really loved her teaching style and I think she was extremely understanding considering the current circumstances. She is very generous about grading, so I believe this class is easy if you put in the effort!

She never make clear with the extra credit. She said she will give 3 points extra credit if 80% write the survey. When students assume the 3 points extra credit is adding to the final grade out of 100. She emailed after everyone complete the survey that the extra credit is 3 out of 1000 course point, which is 0.3 to 100. :))))

her extra credit matters nothing that just takes up a decimal out of overall course grade.

Prof Trugman is new but there were really no problems at all with the class structure. 3 exams, 10 quizzes, 5 assignments (basically longer quizzes), and section attendance make up the grade. She is kind and approachable, and the class is organized well enough so that passing is easy. Didnt read textbook and got a B+ easily. Easy A if you read it.

Love doesn't do the course material justice. We read great texts but class discussions were sub-par and demanded very little analytical thinking. He had very low standards for writing and tests were very easy (the average grade for our last 2 exams was above a 95). Sociology is a great discipline but I wouldn't recommend Love if you want to learn.

Great class, great teacher, never dull, great films, I learned a lot, he is easy to approach, funny and passionate about the subject, if you can, take his class. The tests are not easy, so read and study, go to class

I am in Love with Professor Love! He has been my favorite teacher at UCSB so far. I took his class last spring and it was awesome, I learned so much from him! The material was dense but he made it pretty easy to understand. There were two essays that just asked to write about our experiences with race. Take his classes!

Professor Love is helpful when approached, fair on exams, and laudably up-to-date on current events. One 7-10 paper. He tries to make class interactive. Teaches mostly from the text, as textbooks form the backbone of the course (Giddens and Massey). It wasn't a life-changing class, but it was solid material with a respectable lecturer.

Sure, he makes lots of jokes, but they're quite dull and off topic. He was not inspiring, passionate, or deep. Much of the class time he spends letting the students talk about what they're thinking. Very easy class, tests straight from the lecture. Rather boring.

So everyone below says Love's class was easy? Not this Spring, the midterm was ridiculous, class average on that was a D. And he refused to curve that test too. I got a B on the midterm, but thats even after studying all night. Makes no sense, maybe he saw this sight and felt like he had to be harder.

Hi, I totally just found this site just now. anyway, Mr. Love's class last fall was really easy. you should have no problem getting an A. He is proficient in the subject. The only thing I can say that was annoying about my experience was the smarmy way he tried to vie for acceptance with the students. Maybe that's because he's new.

Great instructor for Soc 1. Midterms/finals are pretty straight forward. He doesn't like to tell you what's going to be on it but it's basically straight from the lecture and some from the reading. Paper was pretty easy too. I just read, went to lecture, studied a bit and got an A.

I was so in love with Erik when I was an undergrad, he was so smart and witty, and always wore this cool motown shirt...anyway, he has since inspired me to go to grad school, and now i want to be his teacher! take his class, it will wake you up to more than islam...