Professor
Javier Patiño Loira
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Winter 2024 - I have never felt so genuinely motivated to invest my maximum effort into this class. He gives study guides that cover anything that could appear in the exams, which have been extremely helpful. I would recommend anyone who takes this class to start filling in the study guides' questions on Word/Google docs on the very first lecture alongside the slides. Please continue to do so during every single lecture and discussion session, especially while your memory about the topics' details are still fresh. It is definitely the most effective way to extract the most important information to ace the exam than just taking notes without a clear direction. I stopped taking any notes after the first two days of class and focused on the study guides for the exams. You also have short essays (400-500 words) of different readings to turn in every week. Although he allows students to turn in 2 reading assignments late without penalizations, try to finish them by the due date regardless. Parts of the assigned readings are usually included in the lecture slides, it is very important that you acquire the basic ideas of these readings to understand the lecture thoroughly.
Winter 2024 - I have never felt so genuinely motivated to invest my maximum effort into this class. He gives study guides that cover anything that could appear in the exams, which have been extremely helpful. I would recommend anyone who takes this class to start filling in the study guides' questions on Word/Google docs on the very first lecture alongside the slides. Please continue to do so during every single lecture and discussion session, especially while your memory about the topics' details are still fresh. It is definitely the most effective way to extract the most important information to ace the exam than just taking notes without a clear direction. I stopped taking any notes after the first two days of class and focused on the study guides for the exams. You also have short essays (400-500 words) of different readings to turn in every week. Although he allows students to turn in 2 reading assignments late without penalizations, try to finish them by the due date regardless. Parts of the assigned readings are usually included in the lecture slides, it is very important that you acquire the basic ideas of these readings to understand the lecture thoroughly.
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Fall 2018 - Javier is a great professor! Even though the subject matter of SPAN 135 does not seem to be the most exciting, he makes each lecture engaging and interesting to students. The format for the class is very clear, with a short answer reading response due before each class, one midterm, and a final paper. The material of this particular quarter's course got kind of monotonous after a while, but I still felt engaged and motivated to participate in class discussions. Javier gets to know his students and offers help whenever is needed. Many students take whatever class he teaches the next quarter as well. Definitely recommend him.
Fall 2018 - Javier is a great professor! Even though the subject matter of SPAN 135 does not seem to be the most exciting, he makes each lecture engaging and interesting to students. The format for the class is very clear, with a short answer reading response due before each class, one midterm, and a final paper. The material of this particular quarter's course got kind of monotonous after a while, but I still felt engaged and motivated to participate in class discussions. Javier gets to know his students and offers help whenever is needed. Many students take whatever class he teaches the next quarter as well. Definitely recommend him.
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