Professor
Veronica Cortinez
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Summer 2024 - Professor Cortinez is extremely knowledgeable. Taking her class felt like something special, and I believe I would not have been able to learn what she taught and the extent to which she taught it from another professor. Professor Cortinez's class was definitely challenging due to the fast pace of the class, the amount of readings we were expected to get through, and the difficulty level of the readings. I feel most students in the class struggled with this, myself included. To accommodate this, however, Professor Cortinez made herself extremely available for students to ask questions. She also went over all the readings in depth to accommodate for gaps in student understanding. Professor Cortinez is also an extremely fair grader on exams-- if your work shows you have put in effort to keep up with the class, she will give you at least an A or a B. While you have to put in work to get an A, it is absolutely doable. Overall, I enjoyed this class very much and feel it was an extremely valuable experience.
Summer 2024 - Professor Cortinez is extremely knowledgeable. Taking her class felt like something special, and I believe I would not have been able to learn what she taught and the extent to which she taught it from another professor. Professor Cortinez's class was definitely challenging due to the fast pace of the class, the amount of readings we were expected to get through, and the difficulty level of the readings. I feel most students in the class struggled with this, myself included. To accommodate this, however, Professor Cortinez made herself extremely available for students to ask questions. She also went over all the readings in depth to accommodate for gaps in student understanding. Professor Cortinez is also an extremely fair grader on exams-- if your work shows you have put in effort to keep up with the class, she will give you at least an A or a B. While you have to put in work to get an A, it is absolutely doable. Overall, I enjoyed this class very much and feel it was an extremely valuable experience.
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Don't let this class fool you- although the course was originally titled Film and Lit in the Spanish Speaking World, it turned into Chilean Film and Lit. Professor Cortinez has a wealth of knowledge about Chile, but tends to ramble on about her own pet projects. There's no break during the two hour class- and your grade depends entirely on the TA. The bottom line is that if you show up to class and sign in (mandatory attendance), and do a little bit of review before the final, you'll easily pass with flying colors.
Don't let this class fool you- although the course was originally titled Film and Lit in the Spanish Speaking World, it turned into Chilean Film and Lit. Professor Cortinez has a wealth of knowledge about Chile, but tends to ramble on about her own pet projects. There's no break during the two hour class- and your grade depends entirely on the TA. The bottom line is that if you show up to class and sign in (mandatory attendance), and do a little bit of review before the final, you'll easily pass with flying colors.
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