I love Professor Williams! Hands down one of my favorite physical geography classes I have ever taken at UCLA. He is very passionate about what he is teaching. The figures on the slides are mostly made by himself, which makes it even more impressive. I have learned much about climate science and gained more appreciation for it. Even though I was trained to be a more human geographer, this class is A MUST if you are a geography major. The workload is reasonable with weekly lab questions (4-5 questions based on the lectures), a midterm, and a final. The exams are reasonable, and lab questions help you understand and learn the materials better. The textbook is helpful but unnecessary since it will cover everything in the slides anyway, but exploring more within the topics is good. The lecture attendance is not mandatory, but it is vital to fully understand the materials since the slides can be very bare bones. During my quarter, he also recorded the lecture, but it is not guaranteed that the video might be of good quality. The order of the lecture topics makes a lot of sense, building on one another and expanding my knowledge of this discipline. Overall, I enjoyed the class a lot and would recommend it to anyone interested in this field, especially to those majoring in geography, of course!

This was one of the few courses at UCLA that I actually found really interesting and impactful. I am not a geography major, but this class fit my schedule well and I had previously taken GEOG 1 as well so I decided to take it.

Professor Williams is super kind, engaging, and knows so much about the stuff he’s teaching, which it makes it really enjoyable to take this class. There are definitely some more difficult concepts in this class, but the professor explains them really well and helps everyone understand (again I am not a geography major and I was fine).

The workload is definitely manageable (a weekly 30 min-1 hour assignment) and the midterm/final were very straightforward as long as you watch the lectures. Definitely take this class if you can!