Reviews of professor Rafael Flores

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
IF YOU ARE AN ASPIRING FILMMAKER TAKE HIS CLASSES. I took Professor Flores's Digital Mobile Media Production Workshop and I've also taken his LatinX Cinema course... he is one of the best professors I've had in my time at SF State. Professor Flores drops gems in his lectures and elevates his students filmmaking abilities. Expect weekly workload.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Flores is very passionate in his teaching and is mostly transparent about what he expects in your work. He can be a bit pretentious at times, but it doesn't affect the quality of the class. Gives a pop quiz, and the rest is essays. He teaches only Chicano film, not Latino film. Slightly overwhelming at times, but decent class overall.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He was not at all considerate for students. He is very demanding , egotistic and short with conversations and student feedback. The professor expects a lot from students but in my opinion does not give much insight to the ideas himself. The only positive is that the films assigned were interesting but that doesn't make up for the lecture part.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Flores is very pretentious. He is very passionate about the subject he teaches but he expects too much from a student. Way too political. A very tough grader. When grading papers he only points out the negatives. Doesn't provide helpful feedback just marks everything you did wrong. He is not considerate about the pandemic or your time.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is very friendly in class and has a lot of passion for this course. The class can get too political sometimes which is actually nice. He's not a bad grader but I had absolutely no motivation in his class. His feedback is short and very discouraging. He just highlights your paper and literally writes "Bad" as a feedback for the whole paragraph.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Interesting and clearly passionate about what he teaches. He can come off a little condescending during discussion times. That attitude carries onto grading assignments. For papers he asks for your opinion/interpretation, yet he will take points off on what he doesn't agree with. If you're not a cinema major, consider another elective

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Flores is a great professor and an extremely knowledgeable and experienced filmmaker. He explained the complex topics covered in class in a way that was extremely easy for new filmmakers to understand. Props to him as well for taking up teaching the class at the last minute (just a day before it started) and knocking it out of the park!