As long as you show up and try, you're fine. He is an incredible professor and genuinely has a lot of love for his students. Definitely take!

Zulueta is a nice guy, but this class was very mediocre. The class consists entirely of lectures, and the structure and organization of the class' content don't make sense. There are a lot of readings, but they're not required whatsoever. He encourages participation but rarely asks the class to do anything. 6 assignments total, and an easy final.

Zulueta disregarded a derogative comment on Black People in a Filipino American class. Furthermore his class structure might just be the worst thing to ever exist. It has already been about 4 weeks now and he still hasn't had a real lesson plan and he just tends to ask really surface level questions.

pretty hard grader, very long and dense readings and the lectures were kinda hard to follow takes attendance

Best lecturer I've had here. Engaging. Weekly reflections and moderate amount of reading if you choose to do it. Not difficult. Rlly big focus on learning over a grade. Rewarding if you go to class. Like a more engaging history class w/o memorization. Super small class. You'll actually try in the class bc the prof is so sincere. take it!

Approachable, kind, and insightful professor. Readings and lectures for this course are thought-provoking. Grading might seem tough at first, but listening to him and asking questions will help you improve on each submission. Expectations for this course were very clear, and it has been one of my favorites at UCSB so far.

Dr. Zulueta is such a sweetheart and genuinely cares about what he's teaching. He is always on top of responding to emails and concerns, and just wants you to succeed. There are weekly readings for the class but they're really not too hard and line up with his lecture material, so I recommend reading them.

Dr. Zulueta is very understanding and approachable outside of class, and the material covered in this course was interesting. However, I found the slides unhelpful when looking back and reviewing to write papers.

Zulueta is easily one of the worst professors I've ever had. His lectures lack content completely and fail to address the learning objectives with any detail or depth. The entire time he's talking he says nothing. All of the readings are long and very dense. Nothing gives enough info to be able to write the papers well. DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS.

I don't recommend taking his classes. He graded so harshly without saying why and at the end of the quarter he made GS unavailable to us before he even finalized grades so idek what I got on my last two papers. Theres a million readings and theyre all over the place. The entire course itself wasn't focused enough he adds too much unrelated stuff

im trying so hard to like him hes nice but hes just a bad prof. goes on super long unrelated tangents and ends it with "whats my point? my point is" JUST GET TO THE POINT DAWG PLS grades everything late and hard and barely gives feedback. so much unnecessary reading he never even goes over. taking notes on his slides is impossible. very unorganized

Very interesting content and he is a super sweet guy, I never went to office hours but he seemed very willing to help out and chat. I believe there was 2 essays that were pretty straightforward. Lots of reading, some films, TAs help digest this material well. I'd recommend him!