Great dude. Without a doubt, will make himself available to you if you have questions or a general interest in the material. Really enjoyed the class and would take again.

Really dope professor and was super understaning. If you try you will easily pass the class. Even if you dont really try you'll still at least get a B. Tries to lighten the mood and crack jokes and will stay after to talk about anything with you.

Very clearly cares about his students, and made my life a little easier/more interesting during a pretty crappy time to be alive.

The textbook that this class uses is unnecessarily dense. I did fine on the midterm (2 essays) and 2 pop quizzes without doing the readings. Professor Moak cares about his students and it shows when attending office hours. The lectures are when you learn the most!

Given the COVID/protest circumstances, Prof. Moak was very fair, in that his tests (including his pop quizzes) were doable if you followed his lectures. The class isn't too much work and he's clear and very informative in the way he presents the material. He clearly cares about his students.

The class was presented very nicely as a chronological survey of globalizing processes. The grading was fairly generous (remember though that this is the COVID online quarter) and the professor was very attentive to the students.

Prof. Moak is passionate about French history. The class was extremely interesting and engaging. Grade is based solely on attendance & two 5-8 page essays. The first essay's prompt was given a week in advance and the final paper, which was an open prompt, was given two weeks in advance. Clear structure, interesting lecture. Overall, good prof.

his lectures are very boring and difficult to pay attention to. i don't know WHAT he's thinking with his powerpoints because every slide has a minimum of 3 PARAGRAPHS copied and pasted onto it from the book so you have no idea what to write down. overall class is pretty easy, don't really need to go to lecture

Of the 17 lectures for this class, I attended maybe 7 at the most, only did a handful of the assigned readings yet I still got an A. His slides are ridiculous and completely impossible to read. His speech is always overly complex and jumbled. Going to class is a complete waste of time, just attend sections and go through slides at home.

Not great, but he's very approachable and you can tell he cares

Professor Moak is a nice guy who knows a lot about Global. Lectures are based on powerpoints that have A LOT of info on each slide so its kind of hard to pay attention. Slides are posted on GS so you don't really need to go to class. Pop quizzes were super easy and also on GS. This class was pretty easy overall

I don't know why people are so harsh here. He's honestly not that bad and he's well-intentioned. He just should focus on his powerpoints

Yo this guy is too much Fr. He literally just made a bunch of good reviews on this page to cover how terrible of a teacher he is. I honestly dont know how this guy got a job here bc he is bottom of the barrel quality! I came to UCSB for the high level of quality education and this dude doesnt exemplify anything relatively close to that.

A bit boring but very kind

Enjoyable for the most part

Excellent professor. You can tell he's starting out, but very encouraging

Professor Moak is highly knowledgeable and extremely kind. This was his first time teaching this course, so he had a learning curve, but he definitely engaged me in the material

i just wanna know who taught this man how to create powerpoints

Prof Moak lacks a focus for all of his slides and his case studies fail to actually reinforce the point he's trying to make. There is no need to include huge chunks of text from the book (we all own the book too!) to "cite your sources", a powerpoint isn't an essay. His lecture slides are super dense but not helpful at all.

This class was harder than my ochem class LMFAO. You would think a Princeton degree would teach you how to make proper powerpoints but nope, lets just copy paste the textbook onto slides anyway and refute everything that was said in the book. No organization and proper resources were given to us in this class to succeed

Professor Moak is highly knowledgeable & you can tell he genuinely enjoys the material. However he does not do a great job of delivering it. His slides are super packed with words and mostly quotes directly from the text. Lecture can get boring hes a bit monotone but the material is interesting

His slides are terrible. They look like whole articles shrunken to fit onto the screen, & you can barely read them. He also doesn't post notes beforehand (he does it after class) which doesn't make sense bc no one is able to follow along. EVERY ppt slide ends with him saying "however, I disagree with this bc..." therefore refuting the whole thing.

dont take. feel regret now. I have to say sorry to myself....

Horrible PPT... I believe he doesn't know how to make a conclusion......