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Ramiro Caces Barbosa
SPAN301 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/16/2025 |
Overall I thought he was a great professor, but I agree with the previous reviewer that he is very laidback. He generally accepts late assignments without penalty, but he is also late to give feedback. Grading is very lenient, but he does track attendance as required, so your grade will suffer if you miss more than a few classes. If you are OK with a somewhat disorganized but easy class, then he is a great option. If you want to improve your Spanish in this course, you definitely still can. He just doesn't push you at all. He is willing to work with students and help them beyond the classroom, plus the essays and discussion posts give you opportunities to practice. However, we never lived up to the syllabus' plans, partly because he always gave a lot of extra time for us to do our groupwork during class, like 10min for what was supposed to take 3min. We only got to write essays or posts twice in class, only did peer review once and skipped lots of the materials on Elms. He spoke Spanish 95% of the time with some modifications to make it easier for the class to understand him. That seemed appropriate for the last class in the department before it switches to exclusively Spanish instruction. He corrected the grammar of responses given in class, but he almost never corrected pronunciations. He fairly mentioned cultural asides like Spanish-language books or movies. He's definitely a sociable guy. |
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Ramiro Caces Barbosa
SPAN203 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/18/2024 |
I've never said this about a professor, but I he's too chill. If you want a very easy A, then take him. If you want to really learn Spanish, this might not be the class for you. He talks too much in English, which doesn't really immerse us in the Spanish necessary to learn. He's extremely kind, very laid back, and doesn't care about late assignments. But he also won't correct you if you egregiously mispronounce words. That being said, I will be looking for other professors next semester to take Spanish with, as I don't feel like I learned too much during class. |
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Ramiro Caces Barbosa
SPAN203 Expecting an A Anonymous 09/23/2024 |
Very solid professor. Does what he can to make the class as easy as possible for students, but also makes his classes pretty entertaining. |
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Ramiro Caces Barbosa
SPAN103 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/13/2023 |
He makes the class very engaging and fun, and you can tell he really does want the best for his students! The course is structured such that you have to complete online assignments on material that you learn after it's due, but honestly that sets class discussions up well and further reinforces individual learning. He's very understandable and takes feedback seriously. I would 10/10 recommend him and I'm literally trying to rearrange my schedule next semester so I can take him for the next SPAN course :)) |