Professor Gilmore is clearly passionate about the course and carefully selects the texts we read so that we end the quarter with an overarching message. Yes, you had to read, and there were pop quizzes, which you always got full credit for anyway, but it's a university-level English class. I don't know what else the people complaining would expect

. Ward never responded to help unless you actively went into his office hours and even then the answer was usually a shooing away answer.

Don't take Professor Gilmore. I am an upper division English major, took English 10 as a pre-req. I feel bad for all the people in this class who's first impression of college-level English is with this professor. He seems passionate about reading/content but does not deliver well and really doesn't teach, just states his opinions/interpretations.

And I thought Xianzhe Dai was bad..... this man's class is nothing short of hell. Imagine taking being one of the handful of students who actually took notes before the lecture and then your friend who did nothing gets a 100 and you get partial credit. Hmmmm sounds like inequities to me. My TA didn't care that my friend got into a bike accident.

Does not use slides during lecture, which sucks if you like taking notes. Would mostly ramble and wouldn't talk about the assigned reading until the last 20 minutes of class. Very dense and boring overall. Had a great TA, so the midterm, paper, and online final were graded nicely. Fairly easy class, the lectures just drag on so horribly long.

Professor Gilmore is an INCREDIBLE professor. His lectures are incredible; he speaks about interesting and thought-provoking topics. I wish he taught more courses at UCSB! I highly recommend ENGL 122NE and just Tim overall.

Professor Gilmore's lectures are very off the cuff, using reading materials as supplements to class dialogue. Can ramble sometimes but overall very interesting lectures that get you thinking about your place in the world. The assigned novels and poems were great, two in-class essays and a research paper were majority of the grade.

I love his lecture style, doesn't make you stare at a powerpoint for an hour, allows natural discussion to flow through the class period. Loved everything we were assigned to read. He also was very open to modifications for essay prompts and would rather read passionate writing rather than AI slop or someone who's just trying to answer the prompt.

Easy class if you keep up on readings

Eh, I took this class cause I needed the credits for ES and lit but wouldn't recommend. Lectures are all over the place with very little organization. As far as ES classes go this one's pretty boring, I would much rather take pretty much any other ES class instead of this one.

Professor Gilmore is awesome. His lectures are thought-provoking, and he was constantly relating course material to daily life. He does go on the occasional tangent, and there are pop quizzes throughout the quarter (so you can't skip out on lecture), but I really enjoyed this class and the material it covered.

super easy class, lectures are quite random and unnecessary, but he gives pop quizzes. If you go to lecture and skim the readings class is easy