Professor
Ashley Sanders Garcia
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2020 - If you are looking for an Easy A, this is not it. The best way I can describe this class is that it was like trying to build an IKEA dresser without instructions. It was intensely frustrating and would have been a lot more efficient with more guidance, tools, and instructions. In the end, after cobbling together my best effort, I feel like I've gained something, but I'm not entirely sure what. The group project component was exhausting. Were it not for the already infuriating and devastating events of 2020, I would've found it even worse. With a couple of classes on Tableau and no classes on HTML, CSS, or Javascript, we were expected to draw upon the limited explanations in lectures to produce a working final project. Unless you already have some knowledge of data visualization and analysis, this class will be a demanding one. I think the instructors clearly have experience in their fields. Professor Garcia is a very compassionate and articulate professor, and she is very in tune with students' needs. She welcomes everyone to reach out to her and ask for help. Our TAs were also very skilled and helped with a lot of tasks. I think the course altogether could have benefited from a greater emphasis on the "how" of Digital Humanities rather than the "why." Perhaps in previous quarters, this class was a cop out, but now it is a lot more rigorous. Be careful.
Fall 2020 - If you are looking for an Easy A, this is not it. The best way I can describe this class is that it was like trying to build an IKEA dresser without instructions. It was intensely frustrating and would have been a lot more efficient with more guidance, tools, and instructions. In the end, after cobbling together my best effort, I feel like I've gained something, but I'm not entirely sure what. The group project component was exhausting. Were it not for the already infuriating and devastating events of 2020, I would've found it even worse. With a couple of classes on Tableau and no classes on HTML, CSS, or Javascript, we were expected to draw upon the limited explanations in lectures to produce a working final project. Unless you already have some knowledge of data visualization and analysis, this class will be a demanding one. I think the instructors clearly have experience in their fields. Professor Garcia is a very compassionate and articulate professor, and she is very in tune with students' needs. She welcomes everyone to reach out to her and ask for help. Our TAs were also very skilled and helped with a lot of tasks. I think the course altogether could have benefited from a greater emphasis on the "how" of Digital Humanities rather than the "why." Perhaps in previous quarters, this class was a cop out, but now it is a lot more rigorous. Be careful.
Most Helpful Review
Winter 2021 - I can't recommend this class and Dr. Sanders strongly enough. She is so brilliant and SO approachable and so clearly wants to see you succeed. The topic was intimidating to me at first but seriously she makes it so manageable. Unbelievably kind and flexible with deadlines and personal conflicts. 1000/10 professor. would take literally any class with her ever
Winter 2021 - I can't recommend this class and Dr. Sanders strongly enough. She is so brilliant and SO approachable and so clearly wants to see you succeed. The topic was intimidating to me at first but seriously she makes it so manageable. Unbelievably kind and flexible with deadlines and personal conflicts. 1000/10 professor. would take literally any class with her ever
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