Professor Ek is very interesting. She can come off harsh, but if you make time to talk to her, she will come across a lot clearer. I took this class virtually in Spring and it was basically one giant group project- which was really hard to plan considering my group had to zoom to get anything done. The subject matter was interesting and useful

The workload is not heavy at all, it takes less time to complete the tasks than the lower-division writing class. It is great that she often end the lecture early, but at the same time I did not learn much things from this course. I would say her course is a good choice for completing GE----- take little efforts but not learning things.

Auli is a fine professor but I wouldn't recommend her if you didn't have to take her class. She is extremely unclear about what she wants and constantly changes her mind. You have to email her word docs because pdfs make her computer crash but they get all messed up and she sees something unformatted and grades on that. She doesn't use gauchospace.

Easy A if you do all the assignments, which are not very hard.

This is the worst prof I have had in during my college years. She doesn't remember what she just said. Sometimes she just grades against what she just taught us. If you are an active student, you will be taking points off for "not giving her chance to speak". She feels no responsibility at all. Definitely not taking this prof again.

Avoid at all costs!! Very unclear about grading criteria, will essentially give you whatever grade she feels like without being able to explain. Most professors make this class easy but with Ek she is too unpredictable and unclear (figuratively and literally with her strong accent). Worst professor I have had at UCSB