Professor Espino is a great lecturer and I wished she would become a professor. The course I took was on Chicana Historiography and I would highly recommend taking this course if you even have a slight interest in what Chicana/o studies is. While it may seem a bit overwhelming with the assignments due every week if you give yourself some time it pays off. Since I took this online I cannot speak for the in-person experience but I bet it would be similar but she is very accommodating towards students and is willing to help if you show up to her office hours. The final was to write a historiography paper but you have plenty of time to write it and the midterm is creating an outline for your paper so you get to start on it early.

Espino means well, you can tell she is a sincere professor who cares about the subject and about engaging students. The only problem is her lectures are very slide heavy and I hate to say it, but boring. You can tell the class is falling asleep. The readings were interesting and I got a good grade, but you have to juggle weekly responses, participation grades, a paper, final, and midterm. You cant skip her lectures, so take the class if you want to learn about Chicana scholars or how the practice of historiography works. In these two areas I did learn alot, but it was a struggle to stay engaged during classes.