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Carmen Benito-Vessels
SPAN303 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/13/2021 |
Carmen is a sweet elderly lady who treats her students with the utmost respect. The class was pretty poorly organized, but it's unclear if that was more her fault or if the whole course is just poorly organized. That said you can tell she is very knowledgeable and passionate about many of the course topics. Tends to call on students at random in class so it's important that you have done the readings for that day. Very lenient grader. |
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Carmen Benito-Vessels
SPAN331 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/17/2020 |
(Disclaimer: had her during fall 2020 virtual semester) The class is easy to do well in as long as you do the readings and participate in each class (say your reflection on the reading). She graded the presentation and the exams fairly. If the exams are open note when you have her, like they were this semester, then I recommend making a huge Google Doc of all your notes by topic and even writing out some sentences/paragraphs before the test. Make sure you write a lot and include a lot of facts. The only downside is that some of the readings are long. However, as long as you have a general understanding of each reading as well as important things like themes, structure, and cultural/historical significance, yo will do fine. |
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Carmen Benito-Vessels
SPAN408W Expecting an A ocon 04/22/2013 |
she is so kind, definitely read or skim so that you can participate in class, because she will call on you |
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SPAN408V Expecting an A Anonymous 08/18/2012 |
Some of the readings were really interesting, but a few were hard to understand. She loves talking about medieval topics; really knows her material. As long as you participate in class, you will receive a good grade. She really likes to know what people are thinking. |
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SPAN303 Anonymous 05/16/2011 |
I'd agree that Carmen is adorable and the grandmother-ey type, but the class was a bit disorganized and most of the time no one knew what we had to read, what we had to do for hw, etc. The tests themselves weren't bad and were graded leniently. Keep up with the readings, participate in class, and show her that you're putting in effort and you'll be fine. |
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Carmen Benito-Vessels
SPAN303 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/05/2011 |
Carmen is absolutely adorable. She's an older woman from Spain and really cares about literature and culture. There's not a lot of grades in class, so participation is really important, but she is flexible and understanding about pretty much anything. Her two tests are extremely reasonable and she usually only gives out As and Bs as final grades. |
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Carmen Benito-Vessels
SPAN303 Anonymous 11/17/2010 |
She has been one of the worst teachers I have had so far. A native speaker of spanish, she seems to have little grasp of the english language and the one time I went to her to ask a question Im pretty sure she didnt understand what I was saying and did not help answer my question whatsoever. She had us drop off our term paper in her mailbox on the last day of finals, and at the time she said it would be open it was closed. She also had a substitute teacher come to class on the day we had our MIDTERM so we couldnt ask questions, and did not let us know in advance that she was going to do that. She most certainly plays favorites, and if youre shy to talk in class she wont like you. She also cares more about quantity over quality. I found that while writing decent things but in shorter lengths she gave me bad grades. When I lengthened what I was writing, though not adding any better content, she gave much higher grades. This is NOT a teacher I would reccomend taking a class with if you are quiet in class, and bad at bullshitting to make your essays longer. I will never take another class with her. |