Don't take this class. The workload is insane bc tell me why it's more work than the two other stem classes I took... I wanted to learn my language but this class made me wish I just took Spanish. She's very strict with grading and will take 10 points off for the dumbest things like capitalizing a letter in a list and not putting a comma. The workbook assignments would be 40+ pages in a week and lowkey kinda racist (she wrote it herself too, there was a section saying that Indonesians are more brown than Filipinos... like what...) Tita is sweet but will probably gaslight you. The final was 3 hours long and was basically just the old quizzes and then she had an essay portion which is so crazy for the first intro class cause girl... you treat us like we are all fluent. The class is also conducted all in Tagalog so good luck if you aren't some-what fluent already. If you wanna stay sane don't take this class.

Professor Domingo is genuinely really sweet. However, the class structure is kind of unorganized and everybody seemed really lost a majority of the time. If you're somewhat fluent already in Filipino, she will make you the designated "TA" and you pretty much communicate to the class through her because she doesn't clarify the millions of assignments we are assigned every week. The only reason why I didn't get an A is because I forgot to do some assignments, but she's really lenient on deadlines. She is very understanding if you're going through a rough time. However, the work load is insane. You have to watch a 2 hour movie in Filipino, sometimes without English translations, an do a 30 page workbook assignment every two weeks, a quiz every week, attend 2x 2hour lectures, 2 hour discussion (with no TA? she was the TA for discussion), and other assignments. The midterm is taken online, but proctored either on zoom with your camera on, or on respondus lockdown. It is open noted and unlimited attempts within the given time period. The final and midterm are just the previous quizzes combined into one big quiz as the midterm/final. There is a 25-30 minute video you have to film at the end of the quarter with a group, in tagalog, which is relatively hard and very time consuming (filming, editing, practicing lines, subtitles, etc).

Personally, I would not take this class again. Nor would I take Filipino 2 and 3. If you're trying to get closer to your Filipino culture and language, try taking a Filipino class somewhere else or take a different language class for your language requirement. Unless you want to have no life for an intro class, avoid taking it and save yourself a lot of time.

Class gave me trauma never again.

No, just don't. I tried to "get in touch with the culture", but I learned more in my 8 weeks in the PI, then an entire year of this frickin' class. (I'm in Filipino 3 rn, but she's the same prof throughout all three and it only gets worse. Maybe its better when our lectures aren't online, but even if it is in person, the pure amount of work is literally insane. This class has had the most busy work at UCLA, and I took chem 14CL (ochem lab). One good thing is that she's chill with late work, so getting an A is fine but still..... Dude, just don't. For your own good. Run. Hide. or better yet don't enroll, its so bad!

After completing Filipino 1 and 2 and currently being in Filipino 3 with Nenita, I can confidently say I would vehemently not recommend taking this class series with her.

For the positives, as an individual, she is absolutely lovely, and you can tell she has a passion for teaching and taking care of her students. She is very communicative and does respond to emails quickly. She is also decently generous with deadline extensions (which is nice, but merely a band-aid for the long list of problems she has).

For the negatives, the workload from each class in the intro series has been overwhelming and unreasonable, far surpassing anything I've ever experienced in upper division classes. The class websites have all been messy and nigh impossible to navigate. Lectures just seem like long history lessons that don't actually help with language acquisition, but attendance is still graded. The TAs do a better job of teaching the language but she in a consistent shortage of them and currently doesn't even have a TA for Filipino 3. Often, if there is a student who is already decently fluent, they'll end up being the de facto TA which offloads onto them a lot of unwarranted responsibility. My biggest gripe with her is that she has an agitating habit of changing assignment criteria very last minute (as little notice as the morning something is due, a week after it had been initially assigned). This makes it such that even if you get started on work as soon as it's assigned, there's a good chance it'll be for nothing. Quizzes and exams encourage carbon copy regurgitation of material (which doesn't bode well for a language class) and have all been incredibly long (one quiz was upwards of 270 answers). The list goes on and on. Again, she is a really sweet person, but my biggest regret was not dropping Filipino 1 and just going for a different language.

This class is honestly quite unreasonable as an intro to language course. Professor Domingo only really speaks in Tagalog during lecture, so it will be very difficult to follow/understand if you do not understand the language beforehand. Grading is so arbitrary in this class, but if you try to bring up an issue to Tita, chances are she will not listen. Overall the class is disorganized (held over Zoom and Tita struggled with the technology), the workload is surprisingly overwhelming (at least 2-3 big assignments per week), and as a Filipino, makes me not want to learn the language (which sucks because I wanted to get closer to my culture). You'd probably be better off choosing a different language for your foreign language grad requirement. I got an A, but I was definitely not happy with this class.

Workload was high, but if you do a bit every day, you can manage it easily. I did not, and sometimes I would have to do 30 pages of homework in a day. Fair grader, very lenient with due dates. I did not speak a word of Tagalog, nor understand, and still got an A in the end. You have to put in the work tho!

This was literally the biggest headache of a class and she grades so unreasonably hard for an introductory class. I would be more empathetic, but Tita would victimize herself every time we tried to bring up an issue with her grading or her method of teaching.