Professor: Brian Loftus
Department: English
College: University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: WRI50
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
A hard grader but a real character in class.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Brian Loftus is a terrible teacher. Completely subjective and brings his life and excuses into the work environment. He didn't even show up to 60 percent of the classes.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He's crazy, but I liked him :) took it easy on us when I took him during summer session. Dont learn much, but he's a good professor to take if you need to do writ 1.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is hilarious but a little weird. He is a bit of a hard grader but if you go to his office hours while he is grading your paper he tends to be less of tough grader. Take this class with Loftus its pretty boring but no much is done during the two hours
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: ENG101
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
omg brian your the best :)
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is a really cool professor. I really enjoyed taking his class over the summer. He says really funny things like "I know" and just makes class interesting. Hard grader when it comes to essays, but if you go to his office hours he helps you out a lot. He knows what he is doing..great professor. I recommend you stay in his class.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Coolest teacher ever, so chill over the summer. He says stuff like " I KNOW" and shtoopid. So cool. Very helpful if you go to office hours, actually teaches you how to improve your paper.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: WRIT109V
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I did not like his teaching style. We would talk for an hour about his life stories and only a few minutes on the actual assignments. plus we had 2 assignments the first half and 3 papers due in a row in the second.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: WRIT109W
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I like him. He's a character, but we were a small 109 class, so we really enjoyed "talking about life" while talking about class material. His life isn't meaningless... it's actually quite funny and interesting. He was absent a lot for health reasons, but I would def. love another class with him!
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: WRIT50
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I took this class over the summer and I can honestly say that he canceled class 75% of the time. This guy is scatterbrained... he goes against MLA format (and then grades you down for doing it properly), makes you call him at home for conferences, and taught me nothing useful whatsoever. Plus he is a totally arbitrary grader.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Loftus is a werid teacher. Hard to get an A... most people in my class got a c- and had to repeat the class. He tries to scare you when your doing the surveys by telling u that he'll track you down because he has writing samples of all your work, but you never really write anything in that class, because its all typed. p.s. you suck as a teacher!!
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: WRT109V
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
All he does is rattle on and on about his meaningless life. You can tell by his grading that he is bitter at the world and about his tortured past. Kiss his ass very very hard, and you just might get the grade you want... but probably not.
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: WRIT109
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Got an easy A in the class, but had to teach myself. Spent more time in class discussing Loftus' personal life than about film; probably because Loftus doesn't know much about film. If you're a film major you'll probably be disappointed by the film selection. We watched 4 movies all together, including Scream and Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Total jerk. Didn't help with anything. Grades Cs on all papers and doesn't give any feedback on writing. Writing 2 was easier for me.
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Most horrible teacher ever! Does not help you in anyway to improve your writing, and will grade C- on all your papers. If you want to get a C- and retake writing 1, take this professor.
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: WRT50
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Skips class constantly and always lets you out early. Doesn't teach you ANYTHING pertinent to writing or really anything useful in general. Just expects you to do all assignments by yourself. On the bright side he doesn't assign very much work. I don't know how he has tenure (o wait, yes I do, he wrote a book)
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: LAMECLAS
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Professor Loftus's ego is huge, he thinks he knows everything he is very odd. He goes off topic alot he doesn't care about your writing skills he only cares about himself or how fast he can get out of the parking lot to watch t.v. eatting junk food.He complains alot about the stuff in his life that hasnothingtodowith anything.toobadhecan'tbe fired.
Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 19
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Eccentric guy, but class can be interesting. The topics are relevant to current culture and helped improve my writing skills. Learned a lot from the guy, even if he went on random tangents about his pet peeves and his life. Also, he doesn't assign busy work; 3 essays and discussion questions. [don't wait until the last minute to do the questions!]
Rating # 20
Overview:
- Course: WRIT1
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Boring and rude! He thinks he is the best person on the planet and he thinks that he knows all!
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