Gordon is a really easy teacher and her midterm gives you a choice of which questions to answer. Her lectures are dry sometimes but they are helpful. Read the weekly readings and look at the key concepts and the class is really easy.

I don't know why everyone is so hard on her. She is extraordinarily nice, knows a ton about the subject, and wants to give everyone and A. Know the key concepts and reading concepts and you will do very well. Her lectures can be somewhat boring, but give her a freakin break, its and easy A!!! Definitely take this class.

i currently have her and i find her so boring.. the lecture is such a bore! the midterm didnt seem tho..umm the readi was okay depends on when u enjoy reading abt. the best thing abt her class is the movies..but i wouldnt recommend her

She is by far the nicest professor that I have had at UCSB. She is overflowing with knowledge regarding prisons and prisoners. I don't know how anyone can say that she is boring especially if you are a sociology major! She is an awesome caring professor who is more concerned with informing her students than giving tests & assignments!

EASY A!!! This class is really easy (the midterm and final have so much CHOICE -- like answer 5 out of 10 and they consist of short answer, ID, and T/F). The topics aren't that bad (ie. imprisonment) although she can get a bit dry. I think the reason many hate her is because she is kind of a **** to the class although in the end it's not that bad.

This was an interesting class, yet her lectures were very very boring. The readings were interesting and not difficult to read. The midterm and final were extremely easy. This class is an easy A.

Sociology topics are really really interesting because it's about stuff that actually matters in the world. The movies that Professor Gordon shows are always interesting, but yeah, her lectures are a little dry. I think she'd be better with a smaller group of students...definitely a GPA booster class though.

horrible professor! so monotone&quiet, can barely hear her. however easy class. i rarely did the reading, maybe just skimmed. do the weekly questions&read the key concepts. itll help a lot! more than her lectures ever will. if youre a visual learner, good luck with this class, NO POWERPOINTS! just an hour and 15 mins of computer games & facebook.

She is the one of the WORST professors at UCSB! Don't take this class, it is BORING as hell. She shows all these pointless movies, and expects you to remember the titles, and the titles and authors of ALL the readings for the midterm/final! Its so easy to get an A, it completely undermines the point of her teaching.

horrible, horrible in lecture. hardly uses any visuals, and rambles on about one topic for the entire class. tests are extreemly easy, she gives you choices on which questions you want to answer. not very good for an intro to soc class, but readings are somewhat interesting (and long)if you like to go to lecture, take soc witha different professor

She teaches the worst class I've taken during college. I suspect the material might be interesting in the hands of a more competent professor. She's successfully built into me an astonishing lack of respect for the methods and values of the social sciences in general.

Great teacher, very interesting, informative, and easy to understand. If you do the homework an "A" is easy to achieve, but you will still learn a lot, she makes the information relevant and her tests are also easy but you still learn.

Great, sweet, and easy professor to take. The topic is very interesting, though her lectures might get a little boring. Still, she makes it easy for you to get 100% on the final.

She knows her stuff and has done alot of research. However, she struggles with narrowing down her information to important points, so it can be rather boring while she tries to teach you everything. Though she is a good teacher, and the class is interesting, she can make it pretty boring.

do the homework and you will get an A