END-OF-COURSE RATINGS
HIS-202-01 Modern Latin America
Fall 2006

Q4. The oral and written work, tests, and/or other assignments helped me to understand the subject matter of the course.

a. Moderately Agree. I like how the class had both a research paper with optimon freedom to choose a topic.
b. Moderately Agree. No comment.
c. Strongly Agree. Turning in pieces of the paper was very helpful. I felt like I got constructive feedback on the essay test.
d. Strongly Agree. It does what it’s suppose to—make me organize my thoughts clearly. Essay prompts are clearly stated that don’t ramble unnecessarily.
e. Strongly Agree. Structure helped keep papers very clearly written and thought out. Submitting various stages of the paper also helped to keep that assignment fresh and constantly developing.
f. (Read Scale Wrong! See comments.) Strongly Disagree. In terms of our research paper—on the one hand, I appreciate Prof. Silva’s demands for excellent writing. On the other hand, sometimes his comments surpassed this and went into the realm of pickiness.
g. Strongly Agree. Maybe you could incorporate more of class learning into the paper assignment.
h. Moderately Agree. I would rather write several small papers than one long paper.
i. Strongly Agree. No comment.
j. Moderately Agree. No comment.
k. Moderately Agree. While sometimes tedious, I’ve really enjoyed my research paper.
l. Slightly Agree. We could have had a few writing assignments on the readings.
m. Moderately Agree. The way Silva had us write our papers was very helpful—keeping us to a schedule. It would have been nice to have more guidance for the midsem exam—it was hard to know what to study.
n. Moderately Agree. Tests: Yes. Paper: the unstructured format/topics of it meant I got a little off course.
o. Moderately Agree. The test, quiz, and paper were very helpful, but there wasn’t a wide variety—more short essays/responses may have been helpful.
p. Moderately Agree. Not really applicable except in regards to our mid-sem and final, the first of which led to my reviewing and, thus, my further absorbing what we had covered up to that point in the course.
q. Strongly Agree. Research paper stages helpful!
r. Strongly Agree. Good tests—“contrasting quotes.” Essays helped me synthesize my ideas.
s. Strongly Agree. Midterm exam was a good review and prof. prepared us well for it. I liked the freedom of choosing a research paper topic, but I do not like all of the specific requirements for its structure. Maybe good for first years, but not for upperclassmen.
t. Strongly Agree. I liked the fact that there were assignments for the large paper due throughout the semester.
u. Slightly Disagree. Too much reading not enough writing.
v. Slightly Agree. I don’t think that recognizing quotes for a test really gets to the point of the class. We should have to understand main concepts not memorize author’s names and words.

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