Dr. Lubin is seriously dedicated to his students. The lecture mood is extremely welcoming, and his research interests are fascinating. The negative comments are from unappreciative people; the coursework itself is nothing to complain about. A very rare experience to have an incredibly knowledgeable prof that loves students.

This class was super easy, I did the work once a week. The midterm was relatively easy and the lectures are straightforward and there was no final. If you've done basic math like algebra 2 and so forth you should be fine, especially if you took a physics class.

Horrible. There was no syllabus at the beginning, and they changed how our grading was throughout the quarter. Long & boring lectures, I stopped watching because they didn't help. The website we used cost money and was easy. Easy class but poorly taught.

Aside from not providing us with a syllabus whatsoever, Professor Lubin, as the rest of these reviews state, gave horribly long lectures that had really nothing to do with the content. There are a couple homework chapters that get fairly tough when it comes to math, but the rest of it is mindless busy work that takes forever to finish.

I feel like Prof. Lubin sometimes get's a bad rap, he can be a little boring sometimes but he is really passionate about what he is talking about. Go to office hours! He is super nice and genuinely wants to help. Warning: final was A LOT harder than the midterm (which was pretty easy) but there was a fat curve on the final which made up for it

Homework was a piece of cake but the absurdly difficult, 110 question final worth 50% of your grade was not. Lectures are hilariously useless, as the professor goes off on tangents for 3/4 of the class. The only way I managed to scrape by was by reading the chapters over & over again, and still the final seemed impossible. Save yourselves!

Awful professor. most monotone voice makes you fall asleep. Homework is pretty easy but the 110 question final was not at all. overall boring class, not interesting at all.

i took this class in S05 actually.. i'd say his lectures were straight from the textbk so they were quite boring, but the prof himself is indeed a nice person, very friendly and willing to work out difficult situations with u if u have any (like i did coz i had family emergency), not a mean person at all.

The nature of Astronomy is really hard. Therefore, the class is really hard. Lubin and his TA's are relatively helpful, just make really good notes for the exams and you'll do fine.

I really liked the class. I thought Professor Lubin was really enthusiastic and interesting. His lectures did cover what was in the book, but they really helped to clarify things. He is also very willing to speak to his students.

This class is extremely boring. Lectures were pointless and no one ever went. Go to CLAS instead of lectures. Read the book for the homework and guess on the exams and you'll do fine.

nice guy but lectures are really boring and pointless. Everything he goes over is directly from the book. Tests are totally random and a lot of the stuff is not in the reading, and they cover a lot of abstract thinking kind of applications. You do get a cheat-sheet though

Don't take this class from Lubin! it's horrible! he makes no sense and rambles for the entire lecture. His midterms don't correspond to the lectures or homework. stay away!

horrible horrible professor! stay far far away. he rambles on and on about irrelevant things and hes too lazy to make his own slides; he just uses the ones from the textbooks website. not to mention the fact that he takes pride in kids failing his midterms (which have nothing to do w/the hw btw)

Do not take Astro 1 from Lubin!

he didn't teach anything. sure it's easy to get a good grade but that doesn't matter. I dropped his class and am happy for doing so

The most fun-loving physics prof you will ever have. You'll learn about the extinction of dinosours, earth threatening asteroids, and glowing pickles. Calculate the resolution of an eye; Design a NEO scanning telescope. Lubin is always late for class.

one of the worst teachers i have ever encountred in my tenure he is a disgrace to the university. he rambles and on and says nothing

If you want an awesome teacher that just has fun teaching physics Lubin is the professor for the job.

This guy is the most relaxed teacher around. Plays sloshball, has classes on the lawn, no midterm, take home final, 3 homeworks. Really friendly guy who will tell you everything about Microwaves (the cooking kind).

Probably my favorite physics professor so far. He does go on long tangents during lecture but they're applicable to the material we're learning. Doesn't really derive equations very often so reading the textbook is pretty necessary if you want to do well. Exams are difficult but fair.

Literally one of the worst professors in UCSB. Does not even talk about physics in a physics class. It is super embarrassing to pay for this man to teach us physics. Our tuition goes to a man who talks about literally any other topic because it is interesting to him. Also encourages self studying and gives hours of homework to do. Avoid this man

A very kind professor but not the best at teaching since he got distracted easily and went off on tangents of what he found interesting rather than what was helpful to the class. Quiet and boring lecturer.

This prof teaches this class almost exclusively to electrical eng and expects all students to have same background. Often takes tangents for over 40 mins. Didn't derive anything all quarter, just talks a lot and reads from unclear slides. Also has papers due weekly, which are harshly graded and no feedback given. takes 5+ weeks to return grades.