Whew Chile! This Class has great potential. However, this Professor is not helpful and when I asked for clarification he always responded with an attitude. If you don’t like helping students, please do not become a professor. Also, the final project should be changed to something more engaging and substantive. If you are stressed out don’t take this class.

Barretto is one of those professors where you think they're good at first until they show their true colors. He is very arrogant and condescending. This is clear when trying to have a conversation with him outside of class hours. His lectures are pretty straightforward until you get to the final exam.

There are only three things you're graded on in this class: Participation, Final Project, and a Final exam. The project was easy if you did it in advance, although the wrong TA can send your grade down. My TA was putting critiques that didn't make sense, like why a graph was used in two slides (I was elaborating on a point made in the first slide using the same data). The final exam is horrendous. 114 questions on very specific things. My brain was scrambling to remember when we learned everything. Otherwise, it's easy to get a good grade in this class.

I'm personally not a fan of professor Barreto's teaching style as his lectures got boring very quickly but the material is pretty straightforward. Although this class is cross-listed as Chicano studies and political science, definitely don't expect to learn any chican@ theory, a majority of the lectures were spent looking at statistics about Latino voting trends. Grade is broken down into 3 parts: 25% participation in TA section, 25% research project, and 50% final exam. The final exam was 114 questions and had a few ambiguous questions in my opinion. You had to know very specific details that I couldn't recall learning in lecture, he also oddly didn't test much on statistics which I felt like he spent most of his time discussing. The final project is also very straightforward and involves minimal coding that the professor and TAs will walk you through, they use what seems like a simplified version of R on Stata for this project. Additional to the coding, you will also have to create a 10-slide presentation about your dataset and analysis. Every week we had assigned reading from the textbooks or supplementary articles that averaged about 100 pages per week. The readings are all pretty straightforward but they all seemed to repeat the same thing, especially those from the textbooks. He also allowed extra credit by attending political science-related events but you had to find those on your own.

Overall, if you really pay attention in lecture then this will be an easy A, but keep in mind that he does not post lecture slides and 75% of your grade is dependent on your final exam and project score.