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.

Amazing class. TAs were awesome and extremely helpful. I have the course reader for sale and will sell it at half the price I got it for. Also if you have any questions feel free to ask.

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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.

He is an amazing prof and person. He will constantly make you laugh and the subject manner is alright. His TA's were not enjoyable. Made the class tedious with weekly papers and inconsistent grading methods. Take the class because he is Chicano Theatre

The TAs this quarter are horrible. They grade everything and are very biased. When you ask for help they don't give much help and they did not set out a rubric for the weekly papers. Every week you have a paper due and they grade unfairly (worth 10 points). ATTEND CLASS, it counts towards your grade. THREE EXTRA CREDIT opportunities, take them because you never know what you're going to get on the midterm or the paper due at the end of class which counts towards your final. Memorize a few lines and do a performance too, that counts as your final. Just go to class and be really nice to the professor (he's amazingly cool and sincere and deserves respect). Talented guy, that's for sure. Not so much the TAs he has.