I thoroughly enjoyed Prof. Arroyo Calderon's lectures and her course as a whole. She's fun and engaging, and she's very passionate about the topics she teaches. She is also very accessible and generous with her time during office hours. She also know's a LOT about Latin American history and culture. I would recommend her, but you have to like to read Spanish.

This class does require a bit of outside research for the material on class, however, I would recommend this course to everyone.

The breakdown of this class is as follows:
30% Midterm
40% Final
30% Attendance and Section

Grade is pretty much determined by the TA since they grade all the tests and they make the pop quizzes for section.

Alli was my TA and she was amazing, would definitely recommend.

Midterm and Final have the same format with one difference:
Multiple Choice
Picture Identification and Significance
People/Term Identification and Significance
Long Essay Based on Broad Topic
Personal Reflection Essay (Final Only)

The tests are SUPER EASY since the professor gives you a study guide, the only things to be wary of are making sure you thoroughly explain the significance and to write about all they ask for.

Professor Calderon is a very clear, passionate teacher although the class can get a bit boring at times if you aren't super passionate about the class like I was. Attendance is measured through an app, but in my quarter there were so many problems with it I think they just gave everyone 100% on attendance.

I'm a little torn as to whether or not I would recommend going to class as slides are posted every week and as long as you just memorize what's on them you'll probably get an A. The thing about going to class, besides that its graded, is that on the test she has pictures which you'll need to be able to identify and explain the significance of. While these pictures do appear in the slides, the significance and things you need to know do not and are verbally said.

READ THE ASSIGNMENTS
Most of the assignments aren't long at all, ie a poem or a song, but some do get superrrrr long. However, they are all necessary since the test requires you to reference class texts.

The subject of the class is interesting but she presents it in such a boring way.

She just reads off the slides the whole 2 hours and sometimes she'll add more to the lecture but its mostly whatever the slides say. Your grade is determined by the TA, I had a nice TA but she was extremely hard on grading. I asked the professor about my final grade and she had no idea on why I got that grade or how it was calculated and that was annoying since she approved it as my overall grade for the course.

The class isn't difficult by any means, you just have to hope your TA isn't a hard grader.