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Julie Silva
GEOG202 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/25/2023 |
Dr.Silva is an extremely knowledgeable and passionate professor. The content of the course is 100% based on the readings (about 30-50 pages a week from 4 different books throughout the semester). The reading quiz questions are fair and are easily found in the readings and she aims for everyone in class to get the clicker questions right (so they're always easy). Overall Dr.Silva is a super nice and super fair professor. The class is an easy A if you go to class and pay attention. |
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Julie Silva
GEOG332 Anonymous 12/17/2021 |
Dr. Silva is a good lecturer and a great person. Her lectures are engaging and she usually tries to get people involved in some discussion. I took both GEOG202 and GEOG332 with her and both classes are very reading heavy. The readings are pretty long and she usually just goes over them again in lecture. I wish she mixed in more facts/traditional teaching into her lectures rather than just repeating what we just read. GEOG332 is a little better than GEOG202 in this sense, 202 is pretty much just a book club. Exams and writing assignments are all about the right difficulty and fairly graded. |
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Julie Silva
GEOG332 Anonymous 10/21/2021 |
Dr. Silva is a great lecturer, I would definitely take her again! She does assign a lot of reading tho |
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Julie Silva
GEOG202 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/24/2021 |
The class was centered around 3 books. This class was more work than I thought it would be and she wasn't flexible as she would only give you 24 hours to watch lectures and complete the imbedded quizzes. There were also reading quizzes that were muted after they were submitted. The lectures were boring and just a repeat of the book. The term paper was easy as long as you read the books. I almost never went to the discussions unless it was close to a big assignment. Overall, an okay class. |
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Julie Silva
GEOG202 Expecting a B- Marley420 05/10/2021 |
Dr. Silva is a nice woman but a terrible teacher. I never had her in person but her online class was structured very poorly with unreasonable morning deadlines and unnecessary quizzes that were graded harshly. The books were very boring and didn't teach me what I thought geography should be like. The lecture stated exactly what was in the book that you had to read before, so things got repetitive. She muted all the quiz questions so you are not able to see what you got right or wrong, and deleted all her lectures after 24 hours which did not make sense. Paper was graded toughly and was sometimes vague with what the prompt was asking for. Overall the class wasn't doable, it just kinda sucked. The only good thing that came out of this class was that i got 2 gen eds out of the way. |
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Julie Silva
GEOG202 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/28/2021 |
I really enjoy this course, so at the beginning, I was totally fine with how Dr. Silva's class was structure. I liked the readings, they're very intentional, but I'm starting to question why she structured the class this way during the pandemic. We have assigned readings and reading quizzes, which are usually fine, but then there are her lectures which are total rehashes of the text -- there's honestly no additional insight or nuance. I don't really get the point of them besides the fact that there are lecture quizzes embedded. It's probably helpful for those people that skim the readings and need more in depth discussion, but if you actually read it, there's no point. She also makes it so lectures are gone within 24 hours, which I've been okay with so far, but it just seems unnecessary. |
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Julie Silva
GEOG332 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/15/2021 |
Dr. Silva is without a doubt one of the best professors at UMD. She is very organized and knowledgeable. Other professors and instructors could stand to learn a lot from her. In geog 332, we used one textbook (available as a PDF online) and three short books, they were all purposeful and necessary for doing assignments. |
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Julie Silva
GEOG202 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/30/2020 |
Dr. Silva is a really great teacher. She does tend to ramble and go off on tangents during class, but the content of the class is very interesting. From my personal interactions, she is extremely open to constructive criticism for her lectures and work, and really wants every student to succeed and learn. Super down to earth, and very approachable. |