Never rated a professor before. Had to do it for Vallis. The most kickass teacher I've ever had at UCSB (and I'm graduating this quarter). YOU NEED TO TAKE HIS CLASS. He's passionate, engaging and so incredible. Seriously, do it. It's really easy too.

Roy Vallis is the BEST professor at UCSB hands down. In fact he's so great I enrolled for his grammar course and I hate grammar. Interesting, logical, witty, smart, funny, and just plain REAL. He's the man.

My absolute favorite professor at UCSB. He's very personable, funny, and above all a great teacher. The things he taught and showed us were very interesting. He also realizes the fact the Writing is a stupid class and constantly makes fun of it. Let's you choose your own topic for research paper which is great

Best professor ever. Vallis is an awesome teacher who really understands his students

Omg best prof ever! He even said he has the attention span of the dog in up...squirrel! So you could side track him easily and have a blast of a convo. I asked him about doing a 199 class with me for etymology and he got super excited...a yr later we're making it happen and he's so excited that I am now a pilot class for an actual class...passion!

I had him for writing 1 and writing 2 and he's the craziest, coolest, most ridiculously open minded professor I have ever had in my life!! Love ROY! :)

Vallis is an awesome professor. super laid back and very easy class!! :))

Roy is an awesome professor!He's really chill. I always looked forward to going to class because of the great discussions we had!

Vallis is a nice guy! He cancelled class alot of times, which is not appealing to me because I actually looked forward to attending class.! But his class is so easy! im taking writing 2 with him this qrt, i took last qrt, and he was just great. EASY class. no lie. butu learn so much!

Superb teacher. You have to take this professor if you attend UCSB. He enlighten you about so many aspects of life you never knew about. Extremely reasonable and approachable. Great person and a great guy. Fantastic Class.

Awesome awesome awesome teacher. Makes it super basic, he's got tons of interesting things to say, he doesn't hold class a lot of the time. No bull, he's super chill and just an awesome human being. Take writing 1 with him if you can!

layed back class, a little bit of reading, mostly discussions in class where you argue about everything, good professor