Prof Roskies is brilliant. Work outside class and attend office hours because her writing assignments rigorously test your comprehension of the concepts. If you're enthusiastic and committed, you'll see how wonderful and compassionate she is. She is among the most knowledgable in the world in her field. Come in with a desire to gain understanding!!

If you actually wanna learn take this class. If you only care about getting a good grade don't.

For PHIL130 not 124. Professor Roskies is a great teacher. If you're struggling with the material (which is challenging), and reach out to her with specific problems regarding it, she will help you. Incredibly intelligent, very thorough, and allows notes for exams - including the final. Grading and the feedback on graded material were both fair imo

This is the worst professor I've ever had at UCSB. She grades extremely hard for this to be an intro class, couldn't even give me a week off after my house flooded and caved in. Not very thorough teaching to the point where the TA's didn't even know what's going on. I highly suggest not taking this class.

In my opinion, very technically competent, but extremely close-minded - she knows what the truth is, and anything that contradicts what she already believes must be false, because she knows the truth, and therefore, if this new information contradicts what she already knows, she can reject it without consideration or evaluation.

I am surprised by all the low ratings. She is a difficult grader and assigns tough work, but is very knowledgable and if you put in the effort she is very helpful with feedback and is committed to helping you improve.