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.