genuinely one of the most stressful class i have ever taken, not because of the material but bc of tug. our discussions were filled with silence bc tug never shared his ideas. even when ideas were shared, if they did not match his, he would ignore you. he is a tough grader and provides mediocre feedback.

Lectures are definitely like book clubs. As a book club, I enjoyed it; it gave me books to read and questions to think about. But too much of the onus is on the student to do the teaching. Only thing lectures help with is identification of course theme. Would've loved more of his thoughts. Even visuals/slides to guide discussion would've helped.

I thought he would be good for me because i'm not very good english and prof goddard speaks Chinese (I am from china guangdong province) but no i had to read a lot in in english for the class which was hard for me. I wanted to write my essays in my 1 language but can't. Don't take if you;re have trouble reading sometimes like i am. Be careful.

I would not recommend this professor for the life of me. He doesn't teach the class and his grading is harsh. His way of "teaching" his students is by giving them the duty of explaining the lecture content for him and then providing his thoughts afterwards, like some sort of glorified book club. If you plan on taking him, proceed with caution.

I used to love participating in class but this class ruined it for me. Participation is ALL there was. No lecturing went on, ever. At times if I didn't speak up the class would just sit in the most awkward silence. Hated it, Goddard should not have let it get to that point. Asking students for thoughts is one thing, but a prof should lecture.

If you see this professor, RUNNN. He starts to take attendance before the class actually starts. He wants students to "participate" in class, but not teaching anything during lecture. All he does is to let students read all day, and his gradings are tough, losing a point for your assignment means losing a percentage point of your whole grade.

Avoid if possible. Took him for 112 as well and hated it but had to take again because I'm a Japanese major. Like other reviews say, he lets students do most of the teaching which isn't what I paid for. To be fair he did seem a bit better in this class, but maybe the students were just better, hard to tell. Lots of reading too

I learned nothing from this class that I couldn't have gotten from just reading the books on my own. Lecture added nothing, he barely spoke and just asked students for thoughts. I didnt spend money to hear other students' thoughts on books and stories I could've just read on my own. Class was easy, but attendance should not be required.

Readings were fairly interesting; however, Timothy "Tug" Unverzagt Goddard did little teaching of any kind, but preferred to ask students what they thought of the reading and essentially nodded along for the duration of the 75 minute "lecture." Would not recommend this professor this anyone.

Literally does not do anything at all. He's an expert in this field and would no doubt have good insights to share if he actually lectured but instead outsources that labor to the students and just nods passively as we talk for him. Gained nothing from going to lecture but attendance was required. Readings themselves were fine, but the class is bad

He barely actually teaches the class and it's basically just a big discussion section. His standards are very unclear in what he's wanting when writing the free responses and or the essays. And when you partake in the discussion in the classroom, he doesn't seem very interested in the idea unless it goes with what hes already thinking.