Reviews of professor Ana Arellano

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
for the love of god, do not take this class. thought it was an easy A and I received a horrible reality check. there are like 50 assignments, not even kidding. she is very disorganized and instructions for many assignments are vague and unclear.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Making me do busy work is not going to make me care about the environment, if anything I want to litter more, I literally want to forget everything on the premise that I had to write SO MUCH after each assignment. 0/5

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
A lot of busy work, but its fairly easy. As long as you apply yourself and try and meet deadlines, you will pass. Course did have a heavy focus on climate change, but again, it was fairly easy. Quizzes were easy, timed, but not proctored. Using notes and taking notes during recorded lectures helps as well.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Easy class!! Just watch the lecture videos to excel on the quizzes, and do your assignments on time. She is a very easy grader, and the content is easy to learn as well. All the assignments make sense and aren't just "busy work". Overall I learned useful information from this class and it was a nice pause in between all my hard courses. 100/10!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Gives you a lot of work! A LOT! Not for you to really learn but just to keep you busy. Each week there are about two quizzes, two discussions, reflective essays. Her test suck! She likes to put information from future chapters on the test. She does not go in order she likes to skip around in the book. Very tough grader.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Gave an unusual amount homework for such an unimportant class. Took every opportunity to push her political opinion. The entire course was focused on global warming instead of teaching us anything about oceanography. Grades tough when she is not specific in her instructions for what she is looking for. Worst class I have taken in college.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Ana has the course organized well. Lecture quiz every week, but questions are pulled directly from the ~30 min videos, so not bad, along with either a current event/service learning assignment. Two virtual field trips. Mildly busy work feeling but overall it's not difficult to complete, just stay on top of due dates for an easy A.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
There is absolutely no logical reason why this introductory class should have so many assignments. Why was it that I had more work to do in this general ed course than in my upper-level major electives? Oceanography is cool but the amount of work assigned is unbearable and ridiculous.