Julie is a passionate, understanding, and fun professor. More writing than most other ES classes I've taken, but the assignments are very intentional and relevant. Get ready for in-class discussions and collaboration. If you're at all interested in the tourism industry and its environmental and social impacts, I'd highly recommend this course.

I really enjoyed this class! Julie is very kind and understanding when personal things arise, and if you need to miss a day of class she has an attendance makeup form so that you can still maintain participation score. She's a very kind grader, and also is very knowledgable about the subject matter

LOVE Julie so much! She's genuinely so kind and has been my favorite professor at UCSB so far. The course content was interesting and she brings in some really cool guest speakers. You have a decent amount of assigned readings but she was so kind with deadlines and understanding personal situations. Taking another course w her this quarter!!

Super sweet professor who was willing to extend deadlines for the whole class for our midterm paper and our final paper. She brought a lot of interesting guest lecturers to class from the books and material we read. 3 books each around 100-200 pages, in addition to the required reading which was a bit. But the grading was fairly easy.

really interesting topics brought up in class, and she's pretty understanding. But she still kind of expected a lot from us considering we're in the middle of a pandemic. she also forced us to buy her expensive book that she wrote, which never sits right with me...

Such a kind and caring professor. Dr. Maldonado is extremely passionate about the subjects of the classes she teaches and is always available to help with assignments or talk about the topics. Definitely recommend taking any class with her!