Labor based contract so as long as you put in the effort, you will get an A in the class. Really nice guy and truly cares for his students.

4.9 stars, 1.6 difficulty at the time of this post. Need I say more?

10/10 would recommend. The best professor I've had at UCSB. He really cares for his students and is really passionate about what he is teaching. Would take his class again!

This is the best writing class I've taken at UCSB. Prof. Dean is a really caring and passionate teacher. The class is easy and very, very, very interesting, and the workload isn't too much. He's such an amazing instructor and I can't say enough good things about him. I really hope he teaches more classes. Definitely take him if you get the chance.

One of the best professors ever, he's one of those professors you're able to have a relationship after college.

Professor Dean is a great professor! He really cares about his students and makes succeeding in his class easy. There are two main writing assignments that make up your grade (along with attendance). As long as you show up ready to participate you should do well!

Chris really cares about his students. He encourages in class participation and classes go by quick when your talking a-lot. Really interesting and useful material that's very applicable to life. Brings candy to class everyday. Just a great dude

Absolute best guy ever.

Now that you have come to our excellent school, please take this excellent professor's class as a reward for yourself!

Chris is a great professor if you are looking at Writing courses! His assignments were really helpful for us to understand genre and the essence of writing. His grading is labor base, so as long as you do the work, he will give you the points.

Loved coming to every class as we worked through writing in a sense of getting those topics clear as opposed to grammatical stuff really. Labor based grading which made for an easy A. Tried my best with everything I wrote and tried improving from my feedback. Tons of peer review. Also had to make a presentation and lead a discussion.

It IS a writing class, so there is a ton of writing involved. Had to write in discussion boards every week & had 3? papers which he helped us break it up into smaller chunks. Was in his ACE class, but his feedback was great! It was more about topic flow instead of grammatical stuff :). Labor based grading which was refreshing. Love him!