Phil is a great professor who is GREAT at the thing that interest him the most - teaching. It's unfortunate that he will be leaving UCLA after March, but I look forward on seeing him during my commencement.

Oh, to respond to everyone's comment about the e-mails he sent after each midterm or final about cheating, those E-mails are not mere threats. He only sends them out when he knows that someone, in fact, cheated. I never cheated in any of his class, but just take my word for it that he isn't playing any games with you guys.

Hands down the best professor I had at UCLA. He cares about his students and treats them with respect. His classes are not easy, but an A is totally doable if you put in the work. He manages to make personal connection with every student in a class of over 150 students. I would strongly recommend taking his class if he is still teaching.

Hands down the best professor I had at UCLA. He cares about his students and treats them with respect. His classes are not easy, but an A is totally doable if you put in the work. He manages to make personal connection with every student in a class of over 150 students. I would strongly recommend taking his class if he is still teaching.

Horrible Professor.

The fact is that Gussin is not on the same caliber as other UCLA professors (and I'm not saying this because of his unorthodox teaching style) but Prof Gussin simply is just not erudite and refined enough to be a professor at UCLA. He is hot-tempered, aggressive, very vulgar, and sadly to say, the not that logical.

He kept on trying for everyone to like and respect him during the entire quarter, but he just ends up being a tool instead; he should just teach at a community college or high school. Overall, the class was mostly easy and comprised of his tirades against different segments of our society and politics. I don't think he knows what professionalism is and again, failed on many levels to act like other UCLA professors.

He doesn't know how to test his students; he dumped about 150 questions for the midterm and another 150 questions for the final (broken down individually). Points are given at random and his grading doesn't make sense. The worst part is that after the test, he always sends a massive spam email to every student accusing you of cheating and to just be honest and confess because he knows that we cheated. If you don't confess, you get expelled; the entire class was paranoid, we don't need stupid games like this Gussin while we have so many other tests to study for! He basically accuses the entire class of being cheaters. I confronted him for this. He always says insensitive and yes, racist remarks and then puts students on the spot light (he did this a lot to black and Asian students).

Overall, my worst class taken at UCLA on so many different levels, and if anyone likes him, it's because he is an easy grader.