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Juan Diaz LACS235 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 07/06/2024	Class is great, very discussion based. Juan is super passionate about the class which makes it even more interesting and makes you appreciate Latin American culture. Juan also invests a lot of time into the students, giving lots of feedback and opportunities to learn more, and genuinely asks about how we are. Grading is super light, total of four essays on topics we all talk about in class and based on movies and books we read, these essays are also open note. And besides those essays, just 2 participation grades and a group presentation about any topic of your choice. Also knocks a bunch of gen-eds so def take this class
Carolina Sampo LACS235 Expecting a B Anonymous 06/21/2023	She's a really good teacher. No homework and only real commitment is to take notes (You will need them for the timed quizzes.) She gives you three 15-minute quizzes every two weeks I believe but they weren't hard and she drops the lowest. You do have a final project where she pairs you up with someone from a google sheet and it was a good idea because personally, I didn't talk to anyone there. Its a Tues/Thursday class so if you need to take an easy I-series gened this is your class fr.
Carolina Sampo LACS235 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/31/2023	Passed it with a C-, honestly could've passed with a high B if I actually tried on the midterm, only because I never came to lectures and didnt know until after the midterm that she uses the same material from the slides on the test. But after our midterm, I felt the class was easy, took this for the spring 2023 and i give 5 stars because shes just one of those classes that are chill, does have a group project but honeslty you can just ask in the groupme who doesnt have a partner and boom easy since no one really talked but her in the class
Carolina Sampo LACS235 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/26/2023	Fairly good Gen-Ed with interesting information, especially the readings that were assigned. Nonetheless, she never had rubrics or clarity for assignments, dropping requirements for them sometimes weeks after she had announced them. Overall she seemed very unorganized regarding what she wanted from projects and struggled to communicate what she would like students to do. Overall good lectures and interesting use of different mediums like films, videos, power points and others to explore issues, but simply lacked organization.
Carolina Sampo LACS235 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/16/2023	Nice teacher, easy class, good gen-ed not much to say ngl
Carolina Sampo LACS235 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/15/2023	easiest class ive taken this semester. im a junior and a CS major and i actually felt like this class was my free time tbh only downside is you HAVE to come to class bc she doesnt post like slides or ask a friend to send them to you because you will need the notes for the midterm, she had 3 quizzes and each was based off the notes word by word so having them def will come in handy, she has a final project where you pick a partner or she picks for you and its easy if you choose to do the 7 min podcast, shes really nice and its a small class but you only meet twice a week. we did have a final but again based on the notes and the questions were the same as the midterm, she gives you 10 and you pick 3 to answer. highest would be a A and lowest maybe a C+

Juan Diaz
LACS235

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
07/06/2024

Class is great, very discussion based. Juan is super passionate about the class which makes it even more interesting and makes you appreciate Latin American culture. Juan also invests a lot of time into the students, giving lots of feedback and opportunities to learn more, and genuinely asks about how we are. Grading is super light, total of four essays on topics we all talk about in class and based on movies and books we read, these essays are also open note. And besides those essays, just 2 participation grades and a group presentation about any topic of your choice. Also knocks a bunch of gen-eds so def take this class

Carolina Sampo
LACS235

Expecting a B
Anonymous
06/21/2023

She's a really good teacher. No homework and only real commitment is to take notes (You will need them for the timed quizzes.) She gives you three 15-minute quizzes every two weeks I believe but they weren't hard and she drops the lowest. You do have a final project where she pairs you up with someone from a google sheet and it was a good idea because personally, I didn't talk to anyone there. Its a Tues/Thursday class so if you need to take an easy I-series gened this is your class fr.

Carolina Sampo
LACS235

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
05/31/2023

Passed it with a C-, honestly could've passed with a high B if I actually tried on the midterm, only because I never came to lectures and didnt know until after the midterm that she uses the same material from the slides on the test. But after our midterm, I felt the class was easy, took this for the spring 2023 and i give 5 stars because shes just one of those classes that are chill, does have a group project but honeslty you can just ask in the groupme who doesnt have a partner and boom easy since no one really talked but her in the class

Carolina Sampo
LACS235

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/26/2023

Fairly good Gen-Ed with interesting information, especially the readings that were assigned. Nonetheless, she never had rubrics or clarity for assignments, dropping requirements for them sometimes weeks after she had announced them. Overall she seemed very unorganized regarding what she wanted from projects and struggled to communicate what she would like students to do. Overall good lectures and interesting use of different mediums like films, videos, power points and others to explore issues, but simply lacked organization.

Carolina Sampo
LACS235

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/16/2023

Nice teacher, easy class, good gen-ed not much to say ngl

Carolina Sampo
LACS235

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/15/2023

easiest class ive taken this semester. im a junior and a CS major and i actually felt like this class was my free time tbh only downside is you HAVE to come to class bc she doesnt post like slides or ask a friend to send them to you because you will need the notes for the midterm, she had 3 quizzes and each was based off the notes word by word so having them def will come in handy, she has a final project where you pick a partner or she picks for you and its easy if you choose to do the 7 min podcast, shes really nice and its a small class but you only meet twice a week. we did have a final but again based on the notes and the questions were the same as the midterm, she gives you 10 and you pick 3 to answer. highest would be a A and lowest maybe a C+

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