| General Information |
| Professor: |
Eder Maestre |
| Course: |
SPAN 101 |
| Course Title: |
Elementary Spanish |
| Student Grade: |
Not Specified |
| Post Date: |
10:03:13 PM 12/15/2004 |
| Overall Rating: |
Poor  |
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Content: |
 Multiple Choice
Matching
True/False
 Fill in the Blank
Essay
Problem Solving
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| Mandatory Final: |
Yes |
| Cumulative Final: |
No |
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| Other Information |
| Textbook Required: |
Yes |
| Extra Credit Available: |
No |
| Attendance Required: |
Yes |
| Quantity of Notes: |
Few/None |
| Difficulty: |
Moderate |
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| Additional Comments |
Senior Maestre is a very funny guy... for a 4 yr. old. He dances around in class, makes noises that are neither english nor spanish, and loves to watch the girls laugh.
With mandatory attendance I dreaded going to this class with as easy as it was. Everyday it was the same thing. You are greeted and asked of your current mood at the beginning of class, he writes the date on the board, and then continues to go over material in spanish only hardley ever returning to the board.
I understand that the more you are exposed to the language- you are likely to pick up on it faster and easier. However with no english basis to go off of it's hard to pick out certain spanish words in his sentances that are blurted out a thousand words a second. I found it very difficult remembering what Mr. Maestre went over in class because he rarely wrote on the board or explained in english ( which he knows little of ). The homework that he did give out was not once reviewed over in the next class which means if you did it all wrong, you never knew your mistakes and continued to build off your own incorrectness.
Over six times I asked for extra credit at the end of class and he continuously put me off until the next class period until finally I just assumed he was too busy with his english classes at south campus.
For someone who already has tooken a few spanish classes and knows the language pretty good, I recommend him to be very easy. For those just wanting to get the required credits look elsewhere or you'll find yourself in extra tutoring sessions or trying to learn the language out of a book.
Do not take me the wrong way, he seems to be a very good person but I cannot stress enough how he does not understand how to teach and break the language barrier for people with little to no experience in a foreign study. All semester I was looking for some type of connection. I had bits and pieces of words and rules but never a solid foundation to build off of. Besides a few phrases I got nothing from his class but pages of notes I never looked back at.
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