Do not take!!! Avoid!!!! Worst teacher ever had at ucsb very very unclear boaring lectures. Test are extremely un fair and there are four 4 page papers due that are graded very harshly. Do not take this lady sucks. And her ta does too not chill. does not answer questions at all questions are so vague that they could have multiple answers avoid!

Dry, vague questions and answers , and the TA puts the average of the class at a 70%.

Excellent professor, very knowledgeable. Also super-willing to help students in office hours.

She reads directly from the slides and tells you to focus on the bold information then when you take the exam its nothing like you expected it to be. I would recommend not taking her if you can avoid it

She may like europeans more for her own reasons, but what really matters is that you don't need to do any readings. Just get the lecture slides off the net and the class is an easy "A".

I really appreciated Helen's desire to teach and help her students learn, but there were many other factors that made the class hard to deal with. There was a lot of drama with the TA and Helen's use of GauchoSpace was horrendous. Class probably will be better in the future, but it's a very easy course. Didn't touch the text once.

OMG! So difficult to pay attention bc she is so DRY! Pretty much only talks about Greece, cuz that is her home country. Totally screwed up the final! If you want to just take a class, not show, take the final, then take this class bc you can get the lecture online. The title of the class is deceiving.

Also: lazy, incomprehensible, anti-social, egotistical, favors *Europeans,* cannot directly answer a question of any sort (the most characteristic answer of hers:"well...yes and no.")

To below: you gave me a reason to be glad that you guys get charged tuition up the wazoo. This ethnocentric professor doesn't like Americans anyway, and shows foreigners favoritism. I've stuck with her for two quarters but will def. drop the class I signed up for with her in the fall. Moody, mean, feigns sincerity, TERRIBLE GRADER DONT TAKE HER

Great teacher!, I found her to be entertaining, knowledgeable, and clear if you pay attention and go to class. She's getting older and she's slow at some things, but I found myself doing really well in her class. I would recommend her to anyone with a positive attitude... this excludes most Americans.

She gave us I-clicker questions and one student asked "are the test questions this vague?" She said no, but it was a lie. Dr.Cook never told the TA what we needed to review for the final. She couldn't answer if the final was cumulative or not. Don't bother to ask a question in class either. She either won't understand it, or she won't have a g

Perhaps the worst experience I've had during my educational career. I feel completely unsatisfied by her attempts to teach or convey information regarding the topic of the course. No factual information was presented nor was there any citation for the information which she did present.