The most boring and unengaging lectures I have ever attended at UCSB. Slides are all hand-written as he lectures, and he has entirely illegible handwriting so lectures are absolutely pointless. Only graded assignments in the entire class are a midterm and a final, without ANY study material aside from the $100 textbook and a single practice test

The final grade is determined only by the midterm and final. The course structure was updated throughout the quarter, so the syllabus was quickly irrelevant. Occasionally he would drop some interesting anecdotes. Overall, the expectations of this course were too unclear.

worst professor in UCSB . No homework no practice questions no lecture slides. The only thing he provides is one past exam WITHOUT CORRECT ANSWERS, and 300page of weekly readings. Midterm 40% and final 60%. The lecture has almost nothing to do with the exam, so you literally have to educate yourself by reading the textbook and weekly readings.

This man did not care about educating. I am upset that my tuition even went towards something as loosely put together as this class. I did not learn anything, I instead had to teach myself everything through a loose collection of lectures he posted over 5 years ago, a textbook meant for law students, and ONE old test he provided.

He post "lecture slides" that are photo copies of his notes from the reading that are impossible to read bc the ink is so faint and his cursive is extremely sloppy. But he will also get on you about your hand writing not being legible and will threaten to not grade your tests. Lecture is awful, he is too quiet and you cant read his writting.

Mr Frech is different from most UCSB professors. There is not a lot of hand-holding, and a lot of focus on the independent research abilities of the student. To some, this seems unstructured. To others, this made his course feel more like a post-graduate course. To do well in Mr Frech's class, you need to have a genuine interest in the subject.