Kafka's sheer passion for his subject transcends his lectures. This was the best learning experience I have had at UCLA. He is a new professor, and strikes me as someone who will either be loved by his students or disliked, depending on personality and what type of learner you are. I felt that he was a very effective teacher, however his written tests demanded a lot of seemingly randomized knowledge, not just what was focused on most, which I find to be something a novice professor would do, to simply test his students' ability to retain knowledge. However, he is someone with whom I would readily take a class again, with no qualms. I feel that his approach and expectations out of students' written work is fairly advanced and evolved, and helps to better students overall, and not just serve as a medium in which to repeat lectures.