whole class was on the films, just skim the readings before midterm/final. lectures are just her reading from her paper and can be hard to take notes on but the tests are easy if you know anything about the historical context/film content. one research paper thats very easy. honestly a really fun class to watch movies and study 60s-80s hollywood

Prof. Felando is passionate about teaching she doesn't know how to. Can't communicate about what she wants on papers and exams. Grades hard w/ no feedback. Can't reach out of class. The whole lecture she will just read from a paper. Worst teacher I've ever had. Disappointing considering the class itself had the potential to be good. Don't take!

Took 101A and 155SW. Passionate about the things she teaches. Loves to assign a million readings and essays. Readings can be difficult to understand, and the essays for 101A were very tough. Got a B- in 101A. Needed 155SW to graduate but she refused to give me a grade for the entire course because I had a missing assignment and now will fail.

Frustratingly awful. Her lecture material isn't challenging, but the poor course structure, abhorrent lack of clarity of what she desires from her students on exams/papers, & lack of understanding of how to properly introduce films along with structure a reasonable amount of time for exams make for the worst professor (& grades) I've had at UCSB.

I'm taking the summer session and I really can not handle the workload. We have so much reading (200+ pages per week) plus two 30ish minute lectures/week as well as around 2 hours of films. Likewise, we're expected to write two 4 page papers and take a midterm and a final. No help/assistance through this process. Prof is inaccessible. Don't take.

Her class is the worst experience at UCSB. Not caring, tough grader and absolutely wasted time with her! Don't take her class unless you have to!

This class was just ok. The lectures were informative and so were the readings, but the papers were graded incredibly harshly. We were given very little, very vague feedback, and it was very unclear as to what she wanted us to include in our essays. I liked the material, but the grading made the class stressful and unenjoyable.

I had a good experience with Prof. Felando in FAMST163, but I will admit that her lectures are both a bit lengthy and hard to follow. I also wish that she was more accessible outside of class, as she mostly wanted to talk through Nectir instead of a one-on-one meeting. Other than that, this wasn't a bad class, just don't fall behind.

Felando does NOT cater to her students. Even during the troublesome time of COVID, she has assigned HEAVY lectures, on top of weekly lecture write-ups, weekly section discussion posts, two research papers, AND a midterm and final paper only after a week to two weeks of the research papers. If you want a caring teacher, she is not it.

She literally teaches this class every quarter for years and still literally reads from a paper for two to three hours, with occasional ramble spirts. She should just email us her notes and give us the readings, open book final anyway. Grading style makes no sense. My friends compared test grades. SAME EXACT ANSWER, different points, no expl. NO!

Take three classes with her, and she is a tough grader. Although I have spent a lot of time and worked hard in her class, I did not receive the grade that achieves my expectations. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS UNLESS YOU HAVE NO CHOICE!

Unethical.