Lectures are really easy to listen to; just remember to take notes of lectures and be attentive to the reading. Reading is short for the most part but genuinely interesting and falls in well with lecture topics. Section participation is mandatory.

Chill professor overall. He sometimes goes a bit off topic, but nothing major. Lectures are heavy and can be boring, but attendance at sections and reviewing slides matter. The midterm and final were very easy just use the study guide and a good TA helps. Not what I expected, but still an easy GE.

Rudy is the most chill guy ever, the lectures are super fun and interesting and you can tell hes passionate about what he thinks. He's pretty disorganized but who cares, this class isn't rocket science. If you attend the lectures and take notes you'll do fine. Also TA Kelsey was super helpful, especially to remedy Rudy's disorganization.

Rudy is the most disorganized professor I think I've had. The study guides were given out right before the tests, and there were 3 separate ones with different answers, and one was AI! (Zerkxis is a TERRIBLE TA) The class is only graded on the midterm, final, and project. On the bright side, he's very funny, and his lectures aren't boring.

I love Rudy busto so much. I fear he is the most disorganized scatterbrain on the planet. Nonetheless he is a great lecturer if you like the topics at hand just don't expect to have anything assigned on time.

Just show up to lecture and pay attention and you'll get an A. The guy gives out extra credit opportunities like its candy. Skim the readings. You can really tell he's passionate about the material.

Not too bad if you go to class. Prof is a bit uptight about attendance and will go above and beyond to get people to show up even though attendance is not required for lectures. Overall not too bad but be prepared to got to lecture most of the time

sleazy and unprofessional!! do not recommend this prof/class

Horrible professor!! Very unprofessional and disorganized. Will go to extreme lengths to make sure students fail

genuinely the most manipulative professor you will encounter. he refuses to post lectures until a few days before exams, refuses to upload grades into canvas (so your final grade is a complete surprise), cancelled all sections half way through the quarter, etc. for material the relatively simple, he goes beyond to make sure you can't succeed!!

this is the worst class i have taken at ucsb. professor busto goes above and beyond trying to manipulate his students, from not putting in grades at all into canvas and announcing assignments in class so students who don't come fail them. midterm average was a 66 and was only curved if you failed, very heavy reading load, terrible test format, etc

Dr. Busto is the most engaging professor I have had at UCSB, he spun Latino Religion, something I had no background and not a lot of interest in, to something I enjoyed writing a final paper about. If you come to class every day and make yourself known you won't regret it. Do the reading and assignments/writing is easy.