Aranye is brilliant. If you put in the effort, her classes will make you a lot smarter. The readings are SUPPOSED to be difficult. Read things more than once, really try to understand each passage before moving on, and then go to office hours. If all you care about is grades, don't take her, but if you want a good education, definitely do.

Aranye is a sweet person. Other than that, she's easily the worst professor I've ever had at UCSB. First of all, she's really disorganized. She assigned the paper way later than she was supposed to and gave us little time to finish. second, she makes everything hard to the point where only a psych major would understand whats going on. BEWARE

Aranye is a sweet person, but is the most disorganized professor I've ever had. The lectures weren't boring, but the readings definitely were. She uses different books every time she teaches this class, but when I took it, I had only psychology texts with Macbeth as the single work of "literature". She's also a tough grader!

Super interesting class and awesome teacher. The assigned novels were amazing and kept the class interesting. Wants her students to do well and grades very fairly!

She is very passionate about the subject: Psychoanalytic Theory & the course materials were interesting. Other than that though, the objective of the course were very unclear. No idea what was going to be on the midterm or final or what was expected of us until about 2 days before. Very disorganized & unclear. Nice though. Just not really worth it

Loved her! The topic we studied was on Language and Feeling. She made it extremely interesting. Her grading isn't too bad. A little bit disorganized but it didn't affect the class too much.