EDLF 3610

This class is really interesting and informative! Professor Palacios is great and I love that she runs her class like a discussion! I would recommend this class! #tCFspring2021

Professor Palacios is clearly intelligent and knows her stuff really well; however, with that being said, this class is not enjoyable and although you may learn some stuff, the grading is not like any other Curry class I've taken before. I got a good grade by doing well on the essays and the personal reflection (25% of your grade) is pretty easy to do well on. However, the thing that bothered me the most about this class is that the participation grades did not at all reflect my actual participation in the class. I showed up to every class and consistently made comments that significantly added to the conversation, yet my score was not at all reflective of that. I do not agree with the score I received on that part, but it was okay because I still got a good overall grade in the class. In addition to not grading papers on time, grading on papers was a pretty subjective, but if you follow the rubric you should be fine. I took this class to learn more about the challenges of immigrant youth but overall I would not recommend this class.

Heads up to anyone who isn't an immigrant or a child of immigrants -- professor Palacios will hate you for this (??), and she will do whatever she can to ruin your grade. Her grading is biased, unfair, and has no base on how well someone did. I got a worse participation grade having gone to and participated in every class than people who didn't go to a single class. She doesn't answer emails or work with people who have class during her office hour. She will, however, tell you how smart she is every single class, will mention how she went to Brown as often as she can, and will generally look down upon her students without being able to answer anyone's actual questions in class besides saying "oh it's complicated". She still hasn't graded our papers from January. I would not recommend this class to anyone ever.