Reviews of professor Julia Morse

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I only knock off points for the grading system and TAs. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS W MARC ANTHONY he was mean, degrading, and nothing you want in a TA. Class is a weeder and TAs have to reduce grades to meet the curve. Textbook readings are dense. However, Prof Morse makes lecture interesting thru discussions and she made the content clear for me.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Really great and fun class. One of my favorite profs at UCSB! She's entertaining and nice and makes the material fun.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Morse is an absolutely amazing professor. Her lectures were diverse, clear, and extremely engaging. You can really tell the amount of effort she puts into everything for the class. She always encourages discussion and participation and is very receptive to feedback. All essays and assignments were designed so that you can succeed.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Morse was probably 1 of my favorite profs that I've had in the dept so far. While I have no special connection with her specifically, I can tell she is dedicated to her work, her class is interesting, and she doesn't have ridiculous expectations. Attendance not mandatory but would recommend going as it clarifies the material and makes things easier

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Morse is my favorite at UCSB. I interviewed her for a writing assignment and it's super easy to see she is passionate not only about her research but also about teaching, which shows in her lectures. Lecture technically wasn't mandatory but I recommend going because its super interesting and helps a lot with papers/exams.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
 We did have to read from the textbook, but she allowed reading an earlier edition if that's all we could find for free. There was 1 research paper and 1 midterm. There are 3 reflections throughout the quarter. For the final, it was a take home essay that she gave us like 5 days to write with no time limit. AMAZING PROFESSOR.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Morse is a wonderful person, but her class was especially difficult.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very tough course, I struggled heavily despite doing all the readings and going to all lectures.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
ATTENDANCE MATTERS. Morse is a great lecturer but her class is especially difficult and the grading criteria is very difficult. The department seems to be turning this into a weeder class for the major. Read the textbook and go to lecture, best way to pass the class. Pray that you don't have Marc Anthony as your TA

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Interesting lectures by professor, but assignments and grading were hard. I am not a Poli Sci major and it was especially difficult, probably should not have taken the class. Seems dependent on TA, so pray and hope you get lucky. Morse is helpful during office hours.