SPAN 2
Elementary Spanish
Description: Lecture, three hours; laboratory, two hours. Taught in Spanish. Laboratory is online. Introductory Spanish language and culture course that is proficiency-oriented, communicative, and task-based to help develop communicative competence in four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), as well as cultural competence. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2021 - I very much enjoyed my experience with Cristina over the last two quarters. She is truly committed to making sure you're not only prepared for exams, but that you actually immerse yourself in the Spanish language and enjoy learning it. Her slides were always engaging and she is very accommodating. This class does have a required attendance component; there are only two lectures (1h 15min) a week that are mandatory in order to receive full credit for participation for that week. Usually, the class is structured so that you learn new material through an online homework system, MyLab, and then practice it in class with the professor and in breakout rooms. Although Cristina's lectures were always very clear, the MyLab component could be frustrating sometimes because of the sheer volume of assignments (sometimes up to 80 due before one class) and complex material. The attempts are unlimited, but I always had a hard time figuring out grammatical rules and weird structures over MyLab. I wish the course were structured so that the MyLab was used as a practice AFTER the professor teaches the lesson rather than the other way around, but I guess that's just the nature of the flipped-classroom and ultimately outside of the professor's control. The exams were very straightforward. There's a midterm and a final, each broken up into three parts--an oral, a written, and a reading/listening. I always felt I had adequate practice and performed relatively well on the written and reading/listening. I appreciate that Cristina is very generous while grading the oral exam (usually in a partner group or a 4-person group) given she understands we are new to the language and that speaking can be very difficult. Overall, I would highly recommend taking this course with Cristina if you have the opportunity--you will not regret it!
Spring 2021 - I very much enjoyed my experience with Cristina over the last two quarters. She is truly committed to making sure you're not only prepared for exams, but that you actually immerse yourself in the Spanish language and enjoy learning it. Her slides were always engaging and she is very accommodating. This class does have a required attendance component; there are only two lectures (1h 15min) a week that are mandatory in order to receive full credit for participation for that week. Usually, the class is structured so that you learn new material through an online homework system, MyLab, and then practice it in class with the professor and in breakout rooms. Although Cristina's lectures were always very clear, the MyLab component could be frustrating sometimes because of the sheer volume of assignments (sometimes up to 80 due before one class) and complex material. The attempts are unlimited, but I always had a hard time figuring out grammatical rules and weird structures over MyLab. I wish the course were structured so that the MyLab was used as a practice AFTER the professor teaches the lesson rather than the other way around, but I guess that's just the nature of the flipped-classroom and ultimately outside of the professor's control. The exams were very straightforward. There's a midterm and a final, each broken up into three parts--an oral, a written, and a reading/listening. I always felt I had adequate practice and performed relatively well on the written and reading/listening. I appreciate that Cristina is very generous while grading the oral exam (usually in a partner group or a 4-person group) given she understands we are new to the language and that speaking can be very difficult. Overall, I would highly recommend taking this course with Cristina if you have the opportunity--you will not regret it!
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Spring 2022 - This was honestly one of my worst experiences with a professor that I have had at UCLA. I actually took her for Spanish 3 but she isn't on here as a professor for that class. The course itself is good and I really enjoy learning Spanish, but she made it miserable and way more stressful than it had to be. After our first oral presentation, we were given a 30-minute lecture where she yelled at us about how our presentations needed to be better. Even if they did need to be better yelling at us was completely uncalled for. She also yelled at a student for going to the bathroom during class. . She also yelled at a student for not having MyLab forcing him to have to say that he could not afford it in front of the entire class. She said that he would fail the class without it despite MyLab being worth 0% of our grade. I would highly not recommend this professor for the class.
Spring 2022 - This was honestly one of my worst experiences with a professor that I have had at UCLA. I actually took her for Spanish 3 but she isn't on here as a professor for that class. The course itself is good and I really enjoy learning Spanish, but she made it miserable and way more stressful than it had to be. After our first oral presentation, we were given a 30-minute lecture where she yelled at us about how our presentations needed to be better. Even if they did need to be better yelling at us was completely uncalled for. She also yelled at a student for going to the bathroom during class. . She also yelled at a student for not having MyLab forcing him to have to say that he could not afford it in front of the entire class. She said that he would fail the class without it despite MyLab being worth 0% of our grade. I would highly not recommend this professor for the class.
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