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! :)