The class has a lot of reading, but the lectures can be hit-or-miss. TAs make a big difference - some are great, others not so much. Unstuck ai was super helpful for review and prep. Overall, it's a decent GE if you're willing to put in the work.

Fun light class where you learn a lot. There's readings every week but they will be explained in lecture and section. Key ideas will be reiterated. Some written assignments but graded lightly. Midterm and final you choose what questions to answer out of a batch of options. Final project was creative, make something that represents a myth.

Dunn was a great professor. Lectures were interesting and fun. Things to keep in mind: final is worth 45% of total grade, some TAs were great, others not so much, has a lot of reading. I had a great TA and did the work so the tests were pretty easy. To get a good grade, you have to do the work but otherwise the class wasn't very hard or stressful.

This professor is amazing. Lectures are always fun to listen to. Very sad peers don't respect his short time in lectures but he handles disruptions respectfully. Attendance isn't mandatory (only in sections for quizzes). Tests are very simple if you simply pay attention to the lectures. Readings themselves are very interesting.

This class is interesting & the professor can be a good lecturer. My biggest complaint is the TAs. If your TA is nice, it will be an easy A. If your TA is not nice, this class will be hell on earth. Professor does little to standardize the TA grading so you're screwed if your TA sucks. Since the sections are not fair, I don't recommend this class.

Most work I've ever done for a GE. TAs are not standardized at all, they all make their own quizzes and grade differently making it unfair.

Worst professor I've had in UCSB. Lectures are COMPLETELY useless. Don't even bother going to lecture cuz lecture is just his yapping session for 50 minutes. He will go on tangent for over half of the class. Half of his lecture slides are literally random pictures of Greek Myth.

There's a ton of reading. Each section is different so you don't know if you'll have extra written assignments or pop quizzes. The grading on the midterm was extremely harsh. The entire class is also backloaded, so you have about four big assignments (like a creative project) all due in the last few weeks. A lot more work than I expected for a GE.

I took the honors section with him and I can confidently say I think he's a great teacher who cares about his students and wants them to succeed. Tests were straightforward and aligned with the study guides.

Had very tough grader for TA , who grades all exams and quizzes, and the grading between TAs and quiz material was not standardized. Have to take this class P/NP at this point. Lots of reading and lectures can be a little unrelated at times for sure.

the class had interesting material and the prof was nice, but the outlines for the assignments were not that clear, ESP the midterm and final. each ta gave their sections different study guides for the midterms, and some classes got horrible study guides while others didn't. this class was unnecessarily hard. take it with the other teacher.

He is a good professor but his lectures are sometimes boring. The midterm and final are easy as long as you do all the readings carefully and take notes. TAs are really helpful.