What a mess. She rambles. The material SHOULD be interesting, but it's not. Why is she still allowed to teach...? Come on, UCSB. If I'm paying this much tuition, at least have the courtesy and respect to hire good professors.
She is not mean or anything like that. She's just not very good at teaching. Her lectures are unorganized and all over the place. She had us turn in two "mandatory-not graded" commentary which expressed how we felt about the class. She sort of copies concepts from the documentaries she shows. Attendance to section are mandatory but not to class.
This professor is terrible. Her lecture slides are a joke. She very clearly just copies huge amount of text from Wikipedia and puts it into a powerpoint along with stealing other people's slides which is very obvious because she does not change the format at all. Further, her slides are riddled with typos and impossible to follow.
Professor Freeman is one of the most unorganised, boring lecturers I have ever had. Most lectures don't make sense and her information is always in confusing orders. Some of the topics have potential to be interesting, but her lectures ruin them.
Do not take this class. This is the most unprofessional and unprepared instructor that I have had in my four years at UCSB. I would normally never rate a professor, and haven't used this website since freshman year, but she is so bad I felt the need to do this. This is the course I was most excited for, and she has ruined it.
Professor's very knowledgeable and knows what she's talking about. The lecture slides are hard to follow, so I mostly listened to her talking (which was helpful). She's super fair in her grading. I remembered the average for the paper was 27 out of 30 points. She let me turned in an assignment late and didn't mark off points. Class was interesting
Disorganized and goes on tangents, but very relevant information in every lecture. Learned A LOT, make sure to go to lecture, sit in front, skim the readings and it will be clear what she plans to put on exams and what is expected from papers.
Other reviews are right; very unorganized and hard to follow. Pretty decent teacher as fair as subject knowledge goes, but spends an absurd amount of time talking about what she will talk about the next class instead of just discussing or explaining it. I'm a fan of previewing/prefacing the next class's material, but this is ridiculous.
She is well informed on the material but the lectures are hard to follow. She gets easily distracted and off topic. It is also unclear what is expected to be studied.
By far one of the most unorganized professors I've had yet. She knows the material very well, but has trouble staying on topic and getting her point across. Also, too much pointless readings. But her tests are straight-forward and fair.
Lectures are rambling, lacking coherence seem nervous or disorganised with shallow anecdotes about Japan. Prof. skitters all over the material that might otherise have been more interesting. TA's are unhelpfull as well with bizzare lecture antics, making an otherwise easy course more difficult by discussiom politcs. Also, if this is not libelous prof. resembles a Muppet.
subject matter was a bit boring so can't blame her for putting people to sleep. She's got terrible handwriting but if she types up her overhead, you're fine...