Very enthusiastic about the subject, and has a pretty sarcastic but amusing sense of humor that keeps the class entertaining. We read Plato and Mill, which are tough to get through, but he does a good job of clarifying it in lecture. Weekly quizzes that are worth way too much, but no midterm. 3 papers. He's not as bad as everyone says, seriously.

To make it short and quick Norris is a tyrant. He force feeds the class quizzes and claims they are simple if you do the reading, strange that I have never had any complains with a class at UCSB until I ended up in this one. Norris is just a bad teacher plain and simple, he finds the hardest T.As to grade your papers to. Dont take him.

Norris is great! His humor is dry but i found it entertaining. The only time he calls people out is when youre doing something stupid like sleeping in the front row. Frequent quizes (so go to lecture!!) but as long as you do the readings youre fine. wasnt terribly interested in the subject but norris made it interesting!

His lectures can be at times, interesting, but usually they are monotonous. There are weekly pop quizzes. Oh, and he is really rude in person. Both my friend and I had a bad experience with him during his office hours. He actually YELLED at my friend for not knocking. Oh, and he humiliates people, reading some papers aloud in class.

To make it short, we had an essay due the other day, the second after we get to class and he talks about turning them in to our T.A's I quote him "Get out a peace of paper, Quiz Time! Oh I bet you all hate me, you knew it was coming, I love my job". What jerk gives a pop quiz the day an essay is due and our minds are fried. This prick of course.