went to class lit as fk and just used the study guides, great teacher take his class!!
Busto is a great, smart lecturer; he makes the subject interesting. he gives you a study guide for the midterm/final so if you study off those you'll get an A. skim the readings for section (mandatory!) and go to lecture b/c he doesn't put his rare slides online. great class!
Awesome professor. Great lecture and very passionate about his subject. Easy class, but still very very interesting. Great class to take for an easy A, but also a great class to take, period.
Dr. Busto is the most engaging professor I have had at UCSB, he spun Latino Religion, something I had no background and not a lot of interest in, to something I enjoyed writing a final paper about. If you come to class every day and make yourself known you won't regret it. Do the reading and assignments/writing is easy.
Good professor but very unorganized. We didn't have a syllabus until week 3, and even then, a lot of stuff was TBA. The lectures were okay; if you want to do good on papers, pander to him. He only wants to hear what he likes.
One of the best classes ever taken! The assigned readings were a few page articles that were about very interesting topics. The grading was very light and not about how good the paper was but that you followed his guidelines. He gave you the option of what kind of final you can write. A lot of creative liberty and room for open-minded discussion.
I took his First Contact class, and honestly it was one of the most fun upper divs I could have taken. The only thing is that he didn't use gauchospace to input grades throughout the quarter, so my only knowledge of my grades was from the hardcopy papers he would pass back. He respects the class's opinions and as long as you try you will do well.
Religion and Science Fiction. Signed up on a whim. Best course I've ever taken with the most interesting and philosophical prof ever. This was my first Reg Studies course but my mind was blown on a daily basis. So grateful for the opportunity to have had him as a prof. TAKE HIM!!!
This class is once a week and you have to read a book for every session. No tests. Only weekly responses and a 8-10 page essay at the end of class. Every week 3 students present the book for the entire class. Busto is amazing and gunny and always brings food for students in this seminar. He makes you think hard and makes you write harder. Great guy
Busto is awesome and this class has been by far my favorite class I've ever taken. He's really candid, but clearly respects student opinions and does a great job making the topics interesting. The class is about scifi and apocolypses, highly recommend taking this with him, you won't regret it!
Great professor, very animated and passionate about his material. Understanding and social with a very good sense of humor. If you get the rare opportunity to take Aztec Religion, take it! Extremely interesting class.
Great Profesor...funny and energetic. I would ighly recommend this class.
Busto was a good professor. He was obviously very passionate about the subject, which in turn made me more interested. Some times he was a bit scattered, but for the most part stayed on track. The class is not the most interesting of classes, but bearable. You have a super easy midterm, and a noncumulative final that is also pretty easy.
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Professor busto is great!!! good job!! keep up the great work!
Encourages discussions and is open to new interpretations. He does not have much time for individual help, but gives his all for the class.
Busto is the****.
Busto is the best professor hands down at UCSB. he's cool, understanding, totally fair, funny too! His readings are all relevant and not overwhelming. he's awesome and his classes are really interesting.
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He makes the class interesting and he's pretty easy, as long as you go to class and do somewhat of the readings. He understands the student's position and tries to be helpful to them by not making the workload too crazy.
Busto is one of the best professors at UCSB. I was intimidated by the class material at first, but he makes everything extremely interesting and easy to understand. Also, his tests are VERY fair. He gives you a thorough study guide with everything you need to know for the tests. The paper isn't too bad. Overall, I recommend you take this class!
fun, energetic vibe. nice guy and very smart.
Busto is the most interesting lecturer I've had here at UCSB in four years. He is not only interesting, but he skips the jargon and makes the lecture more like a class discussion. The readings he chooses are interesting and the test are very fair. Just remember to GO to CLASS!!
Awesome teacher! extremely helpful. Although he's super busy, he is more than wliling to help you, and he makes it perfectly clear what he's looking for. This guy commutes from San Fransisco, how hardcore is that! He's funny and extremly smart, all his classes are worthwhile.
