Do not take Lalo unless you absolutely have to. His lectures are SO hard to follow and I often leave lecture even more confused than before I went. I understand major classes like these require a lot of outside work, but If I'm not even understanding the basics of the material during the lecture, how am I expected to succeed in this class at all?

The people in these comments are doing Lalo SOOO dirty. He is genuinely one of the best professors at UCSB. Him and Mike are the perfect duo and I wish they taught every single class in this school. If you get a bad grade, that means you didn't put in the work since they gave us all the resources to do amazing. Stop hating and start working!

Professor Gonzalez is the worst professor I have ever had at UCSB. His lecturing makes everything confusing and often feel so lost. He does iClickers daily, two midterms and a cumulative final. Other online videos have been my best friend. He also makes snarky remarks weekly about how we should know this stuff and it will be on the exams.

His exams are always ridiculously difficult and he’ll often test details from the lecture sides that he doesn’t even get to sometimes. If you want to pass the class, you better read the textbook instead bc his lectures are nearly impossible to follow unless you are already like 80% of the content.

Lecs are very slow, disorganized, and it doesn't seem as if he knew what he was talking about. We go at such a slow pace that he often makes the first few mins of discussion sessions his lecture time, and he'll even have to send additional videos (ranging 5-25 mins) to watch over the weekend. Also, his exams are extremely hard!

Genuinely one of the worst professors Ive had here. His lectures are confusing at best and he often mixes up his info and backtracks. Moves too quickly and doesnt put much stuff on his slides so he expects you to listen but is a horrible lecturer. Feels more like a student doing a presentation than a professor. Use ipad/print the notes before

This course moved super fast over the summer. I thought Gonzalez was a good professor but halfway through the course he gave us pre-recorded lectures from a different professor when he was teaching the course in the spring. Often Gonzalez didn't know which topics the other prof did or did not cover. Tests had tons of errors but would later be fixed

Do not take this class over summer. There's so much to cover it's crazy. Niño is good though. Very likable, not very experienced, the midterms were written poorly, but he was good about fixing it so it ended up being quite fair. He only taught the first half and his lectures were solid. You can tell he works hard and enjoys it, which is nice to see

Easily one of my favorite professors at UCSB. I took him over the summer while he was the only professor teaching the course and he made the material very understandable. Not only that, but he is an amazing professor to talk to and get to know. As a minority student, I look up to him very much in all that he has accomplished