I love his lecture style, doesn't make you stare at a powerpoint for an hour, allows natural discussion to flow through the class period. Loved everything we were assigned to read. He also was very open to modifications for essay prompts and would rather read passionate writing rather than AI slop or someone who's just trying to answer the prompt.

Easy class if you keep up on readings

Eh, I took this class cause I needed the credits for ES and lit but wouldn't recommend. Lectures are all over the place with very little organization. As far as ES classes go this one's pretty boring, I would much rather take pretty much any other ES class instead of this one.

This was his last quarter teaching so his material feels very degraded and he was not present for his material. It was all online and most interactions are through the TA's. It was all essays and his lectures really did not add anything to the work.

There is a essay midterm and final, but a heavily weighted research paper (if you get an A on the paper then you will basically pass with an A or B+). I had a great TA and discussion posts were clear of what was expected.