The only discouraging part of this course are the horrid TAs, Iris Lucero and Kimberly Welch. My assigned TA was Iris Lucero. This TA was not at all welcoming or helpful. Her grading methods were extremely inconsistent on the weekly responses due to her poor understanding of proper citation formatting as well as the course material. Any time she was presented with a question her only answer was to see her during office hours where she was not prepared to answer questions and did not provide much help. Upon being confronted when I found a grading error on my midterm exam, she refused to restore my points even when I provided her with evidence to support my claims. She clearly needs to work on not letting her pride interfere and influence her judgement in order to be a fair grader. I found her to have hardly any strengths in understanding the course, much less attempting to teach it. Again, she clearly has to work on her social and communication skills, as well as not letting her emotions interfere with her grading.

This class reminds me of a play--which is quite ironic--in the sense that you go to class, speak about life and relevant issues in society and then you get to act it out with the class. Sometimes discussions get heated, but then again what opinionated college student doesn't think he/she/they are the next pioneer?

The material was great, the reads were also very captivating and the TA was one of the best dudes around. The professor is always on time and will ask the class to participate when he speaks. He does have a tendency to go off on tangents but that just makes the class even better in my opinion.

There's not much to say about the class other than take it if you want to read about important events in Chicano history and take it if you want an amazing time and all the while get an A. It literally doesn't get any better than this guys!

This was my favorite class and my "chill" class of the quarter. The TA was Guillermo who was also very helpful and always responded to emails. It's a 3 hour class once a week and the work consisted of weekly reflection papers about the readings, basically what you thought about the readings, how they relate to each other or to you. For the midterm you basically studied the plays and the main characters in them. They showed a couple films. For extra credit we got to go see a play in his theater in LA and you can bring friends, family, anyone, and he gave us a discount code so we didn't have to pay full price. For the final we wrote one 5 page on a character from one of the readings and we were supposed to do a 2-3 min performance on stage but because of the fire we just sent it to the TA via email or google drive. In addition they let you do a 5 page extra credit paper on one thing you saw that came up several times in your readings to bump your grade one letter up. This class motivated me to take another chicano/a class in the winter and to get a minor in Chicano/a Studies.