Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz

This professor has taught: INST104

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Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz INST104 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/17/2025	I think that Santacruz is a very passionate, kind, and helpful person. It's clear is very passionate about INST104 and wants everyone to be as engaged as she is. I think the class itself is very kind and forgiving but people are right to say it is a lot busy work. There a lot of easy assignments in the course and I would say I had no stress about the class overall in that regard. Some cons were that you did have to attend every wednesday or have it excused because would always be a graded activity on that day but honestly it wasn't that bad. There were expected readings and reflections sometimes and they are kinda boring but I think its alright because a lot of the time we talked about the readings in class too so its alright if you didn't read them that week. I think that also the actual class can be quite mudane at times and I think thats my biggest complaint (but I think thats moreso just the material and less her?). Overall, I would take this class again, I would say i'm being a lil generous but I think its a relaxed class and its a nice general education fulfillment. If you keep up with assignments, you'll totally be fine. She's very nice and passionate if you get the chance to talk to her.
Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz INST104 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/13/2025	She's super kind and gives out lots of extra credit assignments, so you'll def be able to get at least an A. The work is really easy, but mostly busy work. The first day, she usually goes over lecture notes (which you can usually skip), and the second day is group or in-class work, so don't miss those.
Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz Anonymous 05/01/2025	She rly nice but SUPER unorganized. Her assignment instructions often contradicts each other and it gets really confusing. No exams, no quizzes. Just a bunch of busy work and one final group project at the end.
Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz INST104 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/17/2024	I loved taking 104 with her! Clearly cares about the subject she is teaching. Gives sooo many extra credit opportunities and many students including myself ended with grades >100. If the class is taught in person, you will have to actually go to class because of the in-class activities that count for participation (in my Monday-Wednesday class, they were almost always on Wednesday). She summarizes all of the readings on her slides so you don't have to actually do them for the activities. She also rarely ever kept us for more than 40 minutes (in our 1 hr 15 min lecture) which was nice.
Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz INST104 Anonymous 12/17/2024	Makes her class very easy and forgiving. Class has occasional in-class activities. Lectures are often pretty slow, and homework can be a bit tedious, but the class is very fair and manageable, and Marilyn is a good professor if available.
Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz INST104 Anonymous 12/13/2024	Professor Marilyn Iriate Santacruz is a really nice person; however, the course had a bit of busy work (about 2-3 assignments due every week). There were 3 projects throughout the course include a video about good design, poster, and group project video. I went to her office hours to get feedback about my poster project, and she was very helpful! I got a 100% on the poster project. Cons: -You need to attend class on Wednesdays because there are group and participation activities. -The lectures were boring and nobody really paid attention. -Some of the Professor's instructions were unclear and confusing.
Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz INST104 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/12/2024	Very nice professor. You can tell that she is enthusiastic about her work and teaching others. The coursework is pretty bland, but easy to complete quickly.
Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/08/2024	She is a very nice lady, but the lectures are so painfully boring. I genuinely dreaded going to every single class. You also never knew when there would be a graded in-class activity, so you had to go to every class. The class is super easy though, just annoying and all busy work.
Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz INST104 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 10/23/2024	Though the course work is manageable, professor Marilyn Iriarte is probably my least favorite professor I have had at UMD so far. If you have the chance, take the online version of this class. I made the mistake of taking the in-person version of this class and have regretted it all semester.
Marilyn Iriarte Santacruz INST104 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/06/2023	She is so nice and wants you to succeed