Best professor I’ve ever had. Low effort, high reward class. Cecilia is an extremely nice, knowledgeable professor.
Our grade is based on:
- One group presentation
- Two take home quizzes, mainly short answer questions but they are very easy and fun to write.
- one short reflection essay, basically just write about what you learned in this class
- one final group project, very easy as everyone contributes.
Please please take this class with Cecilia, you will not regret it!!!!

Professor Rios-Aguilar has been an amazing, inspirational, and welcoming instructor this quarter. Her approach to the course is unique but it works well. She held lectures as a discussion, and walked us through the topics covered in the readings but offered discussions on these topics each week. She is extremely knowledgeable, extremely kind, and has been an absolute pleasure to learn from. As a result of the quarter's special circumstances, the professor did change the course assignments, but before this, the class consisted of 2 quizzes (which would have been take-home and open-note), a final policy brief worked within a group of 8 students that you would then present to a panel, and a weekly reading facilitation presentation. She just kept the reading facilitation presentation (which was easy, you just focused on the readings of your specific week and created a fun activity to pair it with), and is going to have us do a short final paper on an issue related to higher education and a class reflection completed all together on the last day of class. Honestly, I highly recommend taking this course. The teaching team was wonderful (TA was Rogelio Salazar, who was awesome!) and there is so much to learn about this topic. Rios-Aguilar made the class feel super welcoming, and it was a pleasure to get to learn from her.