SPAN 2020

Professor Laura Aguilar Garcia is an amazing professor, the class is very straightforward and as long as you do the work, it won't be too difficult to get a good grade. There are 5 exams, and no final exam. If you can get around a 90% average, you'll likely get a good grade. A lot of the work has to do with the online work, but the department is changing for the Spring semester. This may change the work load. In addition to the online work, you also have an e-portfolio. The nicest thing about this class is how organized it is, a day by day plan with all assignments available to be done ahead of time. Pay attention and participate and you'll have a good grade. In general, A is hard because the Spanish department is curved so that an A is a 96-100 and that is difficult to do but many people do get A-. In addition, Professor Garcia is a fast responder and fast grade, you typically get your grades back by the next class and a response within 24 hours.

Garcia is one of my favorite professors! She genuinely cares about her students and always wants to make sure you understand everything! In this class there is a TON of Grammar (especially for the final, you need to remember so many tenses) but she helped us understand the material and we did a lot of exercises in class to understand it. This class can get boring, but she tries to make it as fun as possible by inserting twitter messages in her slides and other fun songs. I would highly recommend her!!!!

Professor Aguilar Garcia is awesome, and so intelligent. She recognizes that 2020 is the last spanish class many students will ever take and so is super chill about the work. She’s a very easy grader on all of the non exam grades so that you have as much of a cushion as possible for the exams. But the exams itself are also not too difficult. I remember she was very scary on the first class of the semester and so I thought it was going to be a long semester, but maybe she’s just one of those professors who tries to establish to their authority at first so people respect her. It definitely worked, and it was a nice surprise that the rest of the semester was not at all as scary as she was the first day. Def recommend taking 2020 with her!

The class is just as easy as 2010, so my issue was not my grade or the difficulty. Also, Prof. Garcia is great. Clear, serious, a good teacher overall and very chill with assignments. I recommend her for sure. This course in general though is AWFUL (coordinated, so it is not the fault of the instructors). Pointless, time-consuming homeworks, more dumb E-Portfolio and way too much writing. I just wish we had more freedom in exploring Spanish culture rather than idiotic textbook "Lecturas" about some stupid poem or song. I would way rather discuss or present something I enjoy and am passionate about in Spanish than being the same, repetitive, assigned, lazy garbage. The ONE assignment where we got to investigate our own topic has to be 700 words or more IN SPANISH. Why can't we just write it in English so we could say way more about our topic when we already do multiple other essays and compositions IN SPANISH!!?? Omg, I just can't. However, things probably will not change. Again, class is stupid easy A-/A and Garcia is great, but outside work is so annoying and pointless.