Professor
Cecilia Rios Aguilar
Most Helpful Review
Spring 2024 - Professor Rios-Aguilar has been an amazing, inspirational, and welcoming instructor this quarter. Her approach to the course is unique but it works well. She held lectures as a discussion, and walked us through the topics covered in the readings but offered discussions on these topics each week. She is extremely knowledgeable, extremely kind, and has been an absolute pleasure to learn from. As a result of the quarter's special circumstances, the professor did change the course assignments, but before this, the class consisted of 2 quizzes (which would have been take-home and open-note), a final policy brief worked within a group of 8 students that you would then present to a panel, and a weekly reading facilitation presentation. She just kept the reading facilitation presentation (which was easy, you just focused on the readings of your specific week and created a fun activity to pair it with), and is going to have us do a short final paper on an issue related to higher education and a class reflection completed all together on the last day of class. Honestly, I highly recommend taking this course. The teaching team was wonderful (TA was Rogelio Salazar, who was awesome!) and there is so much to learn about this topic. Rios-Aguilar made the class feel super welcoming, and it was a pleasure to get to learn from her.
Spring 2024 - Professor Rios-Aguilar has been an amazing, inspirational, and welcoming instructor this quarter. Her approach to the course is unique but it works well. She held lectures as a discussion, and walked us through the topics covered in the readings but offered discussions on these topics each week. She is extremely knowledgeable, extremely kind, and has been an absolute pleasure to learn from. As a result of the quarter's special circumstances, the professor did change the course assignments, but before this, the class consisted of 2 quizzes (which would have been take-home and open-note), a final policy brief worked within a group of 8 students that you would then present to a panel, and a weekly reading facilitation presentation. She just kept the reading facilitation presentation (which was easy, you just focused on the readings of your specific week and created a fun activity to pair it with), and is going to have us do a short final paper on an issue related to higher education and a class reflection completed all together on the last day of class. Honestly, I highly recommend taking this course. The teaching team was wonderful (TA was Rogelio Salazar, who was awesome!) and there is so much to learn about this topic. Rios-Aguilar made the class feel super welcoming, and it was a pleasure to get to learn from her.