This professor is highly biased. I am not a native speaker and found myself always frusterated in this class. No matter how hard I tried, he didn't care because my grammar wasn't perfected. I would recommend that you take a different professor, especially if you are not a native speaker. He had a few favorites in the class and he pretty much ignored everyone else. He assigned our paper without giving us a prompt and then was surprised when people didn't do it right. He crammed all this material into the midterm even though he hadn't covered it in class. He rambles in his lectures about random things and you have no idea what you are supposed to get out of lecture. He moved our final up a week and barely told us 2 classes before. Oh yeah, he is kind of racist because he started the course saying how bad of a country Mexico is and how Mexicans always are in low paying jobs.I strongly recommend against this professor.