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Hector Calderon
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NOTE: I ACTUALLY TOOK SPANISH 155 I think Calderon is a good professor. He only takes half the class time, and lets the class out an hour early every day (seriously, how awesome is that?). He chooses interesting books and there is no work required besides reading and being engaged in class. You will do well on essays if you use what he says (and thinks!) in your themes. He can be a little bit boring to listen to, and often he would spend an entire hour talking about the author's history, which sometimes seemed irrelevant but he did end up tying it in. The absolute COOLEST thing about Calderon is that he knows like all of the Chicano Narrative authors he teaches. They come in for a Q&A after we've read their novel. I haven't had any other teachers make that kind of effort for student learning before.
NOTE: I ACTUALLY TOOK SPANISH 155 I think Calderon is a good professor. He only takes half the class time, and lets the class out an hour early every day (seriously, how awesome is that?). He chooses interesting books and there is no work required besides reading and being engaged in class. You will do well on essays if you use what he says (and thinks!) in your themes. He can be a little bit boring to listen to, and often he would spend an entire hour talking about the author's history, which sometimes seemed irrelevant but he did end up tying it in. The absolute COOLEST thing about Calderon is that he knows like all of the Chicano Narrative authors he teaches. They come in for a Q&A after we've read their novel. I haven't had any other teachers make that kind of effort for student learning before.
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Spring 2020 - Summary of this class: You read works of Mexican literature (and also a Mexican screenplay). There are only 2 grades; midterm 1 and midterm 2, equally weighted (50-50). Both of the midterms contained 2 essays each. Each essay could be 5 pages max. The essay questions were very difficult, and even more difficult if you didn't take good notes in lecture. When I was writing the essays, I was frustrated and often didn't know what to write. But, I pulled through, found some good points to support my thesis and wrote them down. And I did very well (straight A's)! Can't say the same for the rest of the class though... I'm not sure what he looks for in his grading because it appears I never did anything wrong! Anyways. Overall I recommend. Here's a great professor and funny too. Side note: I took his class online during corona time.
Spring 2020 - Summary of this class: You read works of Mexican literature (and also a Mexican screenplay). There are only 2 grades; midterm 1 and midterm 2, equally weighted (50-50). Both of the midterms contained 2 essays each. Each essay could be 5 pages max. The essay questions were very difficult, and even more difficult if you didn't take good notes in lecture. When I was writing the essays, I was frustrated and often didn't know what to write. But, I pulled through, found some good points to support my thesis and wrote them down. And I did very well (straight A's)! Can't say the same for the rest of the class though... I'm not sure what he looks for in his grading because it appears I never did anything wrong! Anyways. Overall I recommend. Here's a great professor and funny too. Side note: I took his class online during corona time.
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