PORT W3300

5 "guides", 5 "diaries", a cinema project, a final research essay, a 25-minute group presentation, and homework for each class I spent anywhere from 1 to 15 hours a week for this class; he is a very easy grader if you complete all of the assignments (which there are a lot of) The average on most assignments was 88-98 and the grades increased as the semester progressed.

History and culture surrounding favela and carnaval, literary analysis skills, reading and writing skills, and grammar/vocabulary

Super chill. I think a discussion post on the readings every week and then a final project which could be creative.

I would say like 10 pages per class -- sometimes I didn't get through them. There were 3 written assignments along with frequent presentations in class and a final project. We also had to go to musuems and write about out experiences but she ended up cancelling like two of them. Overall, very chill workload.

As long as you submit your work you'll get an A Readings, 1 or 2 in-class short essays, group 10-minute podcast episode, a 30-minute final presentation completely in Spanish She sets suggested deadlines for homework but will always give extensions if you need, I probably submitted half of my assignments a few days late and it was totally fine.

This class is a lot of work, but I think it is worth it. My spanish improved in this course more than it had in my previous seven years of taking spanish classes. There is daily homework that is directly relevant to what we do in class that day. The classes consist of short lectures with small group work and seminar-style sharing. Juan Pablo is a very approachable teacher; he held office hours directly after each class for two hours (four hrs/wk) and was very willing to help you with any problems you were having. Multiple points in the semester I went to him with questions about the content or grammar and he offered ample resources and assistance. It sometimes felt like the work for this class was never-ending: as soon as one project was done you should have already started the next one. While it was overwhelming at times, the amount of written assignments greatly improved my written spanish and reading comprehension, and I am very glad to have taken this course.

Vered is SO chill and SO cool. The content itself was super enlightening -- all about decolonizing practically everything, and they encourage us to explore different types of media (poetry, video, visual art) as a form of activism and storytelling. There's also a lot of readings by important activists from latin america (oof I feel so bad using that term because we even talk about how the term itself is sort of a product of colonization). Like, I think one class we even just went out to explore campus and work on filming different POVs of water to create a video reflecting on the exploitation of water.

I loved Dr. Craig-Florez. I took her for Spain Through Its Art and it was such a fun class. To be fair, I came into Columbia being already finished with the language requirement and having substantial Spanish-speaking skills, but I would still recommend this class to anyone interested in taking a Spanish class that is content-based rather than grammar-based. She is so passionate about Spanish art history and generally very sweet. Compared to seminar Spanish classes I took in high school, I found this class a lot easier because there was more lecture than I thought and everyone varied in their speaking abilities.

Advanced Language Through Content: Afro-Latinas en EEUU: Género, Raza y Fuerzas Socio-políticas en el Mundo Digital Leyre is an incredibly kind, understanding, and passionate professor! She puts so much effort into making the class a great learning experience by finding activities for us to do outside of class, and also we have to make podcasts and she edits them all herself. You definitely don't need to be fluent to take this class, if you've satisfied the prerequisites you'll be fine. The readings are hard but a good way to challenge yourself with low risk because the only way to not get an A in the class is by not submitting work. The class is completely in Spanish

The workload was much more than expected. In one semester, there are 5 Guías de trabajo and 5 Diarios de aprendizaje that can be pretty long. There's two projects and a presentation, and in the end I wrote ~17000 words in Spanish. It's definitely a lot of work, but I suppose it's necessary to learn a language.