Reviews of professor Mauricio Castillo

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you want to improve your Spanish, take him. He pretty much only speaks Spanish and expects students to participate and do the same. Looking back, I'm so glad he did this because it made me so much better at Spanish. I wish my other Spanish profs would do this bc you can't get better at Spanish when they just speak English all day.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lots of online assignments, usually a hybrid class. Does not speak any English and this is a first level Spanish course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Have talked to many people on campus with other spanish professors... same class, triple the work with this guy, literally. Wants you to attend two spanish movies in the middle of the week at 5pm during the semester (we have jobs). I would highly advise taking spanish with someone else, not really any positives you can draw from taking castillo.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Does not put grades in until last minute. Grades participation. Speakes spanish entire class and relies on you outside of class and the online hw/book to teach you grammar and concepts. Not good at communicating when things are due, has random quizzes while little warning outside of class. Lots of outside work.