I LOVED his class. Was in his honors section, he's so friendly and approachable. He makes concepts easy to grasp and relatable to everyday life. His own story is inspirational. It's clear he really connects with students. My favorite class I've taken at UCSB. Essay midterm and final. Allows cheat sheets but I didn't need them to get an A
Rios is a great guy who likes to interact with his students. The readings he assign are a little repetitive but they are easy reads. He allows a cheat sheet for his short answer midterm and final. The films he shows in class are extremely interesting and thought provoking. You can easily get an A in this class if you try!
Rios is great! hes down to earth and makes learning the material very engaging. Thought about being a soc major just because of his class. first office hours that i ever went to and he was very nice and encouraging. allowed page of notes for free response tests which was nice. i also had an amazing ta for this class!
Professor Rios made this class super interesting. He knows a lot about this stuff and has a passion for it. He gives you great study guides for the midterm and final, which are rather easy if you pay attention. He is a great teacher overall and one of my favorites thus far at UCSB. He is also so so hot, like damn!!!
Pretty cool teacher, defnitely biased against police officers. Went around before class and talked to students. Easy Class, just do the work.
My favorite teacher at UCSB by far. Class is not mandatory, however going to lectures is EXTREMELY helpful. If you go to lectures, pay attention, do the readings, and go to office hours as needed, you will do great! He is always willing to help students understand the material and is a very nice guy. I would definitely recommend taking Dr. Rios!
Very nice person who tries to make class interesting. There is a big project in which you choose a field site in the community and study people in the setting. For winter 2012, we had to relate it to justice. Be prepared to do a lot of work for this project. Otherwise, pulling off a B in the class was pretty easy as long as you put in the effort.
Rios would give definitions to certain sociology terms that made absolutely no sense, during test we were expected to restate it basically without any knowledge of what it meant. He's pretty nice, but VERY full of himself. You'll hear more about his life and his NPR interview than anything else.
He is Such an inspiration especially because he was one of the kids who went to Juvie that we read. He is so cool& truly cares about the kids he is helping and especially his students! Take this class to be able to learn A LOT while sitting back and soaking up all he has to say. Not much is required of his students.Best senioritus class by far!
boring class to take at 8am. all he talks about is poverty, didn't really address other aspects of sociology. Interesting guy, fun class, but i found the topics to be bland and boring.
It's unfair to rate a professor's competence in such a large and general class like Soc1. If you think he's full of himself, then you're seriously lacking in humor/ sarcasm receptors. Now, grading is divided into 5 parts, 20% ea assign. Yes, attendance is 20%. But you're paying for this right? That 20% is a freebie.
Great professor. hopefully you don't have to take class at 8am. any other time he would rock. T.A.'s are useless. the guy is approachable. talk to him directly.
Awesome professor. Knows what he is talking about, and knows what to say when people have questions. Definitely recommend this professor for Soc 1.
Rios is a good Professor. He knows his stuff and is very clear and fair. Literally goes out of his way to make sure everyone passes his class. Be careful of the TAs though. I felt like some were very incompetent.
really boring class but you have to go because he uses iclickers and that is 20% of your grade. the final and midterm are also worth 20% and both are super easy. another 20% is participation in section and the last 20% is online reading responses. not a bad class, but not super interesting either.
Very fun/informative class. Really brings a lot of things into perspective and makes you analyze the world you live in. You have to give the guy respect, he came from a difficult past and has turned his life around. His stories are not for entertainment, they are relevant to the concepts in class. He always asks for students' input as well.
Don't take this class at 8 am. You'll just fall asleep. He's got a big ego, lectures poorly, everything's about poverty. No actual textbook, the book's basically a reader so going to lectures is a good idea b/c that's where you'll hear the deffinitions needed for the exams. If you take the honors section, you might be forced to write a LONG paper.
Class was interesting, He's funny but a bit of a flake. We wrote a paper, but over all its an easy class.
Interesting topics. Professor Rios is a great speaker. He really made me think about the world around me.
Lectures were interesting once in a while but I have never met a professor that was so into himself. He really spent about 4 lectures telling his life story because he said there might be questions on the test!!! He also had the nerve to ask a question on the test about some quote he made up!!!! Overall very easy class but hes ANNOYING!!
Talks about himself at least once every lecture, brags about how he came from the ghetto and now has a PhD. Had the nerve to tell us to know his life story because we might be tested on it. EASY CLASS. I got an A+ and didn't do the readings. Interesting subject matter, just taught poorly.
EASIEST CLASS AT UCSB. Send your iclicker with someone to lecture and you never have to go. Super easy tests that were only like 30 questions. Highly recommend this class as a GPA booster. His lectures are not helpful for tests though at all because he enjoys talking about himself and his life the entire lecture.
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