Reviews of professor Hilton Cordoba

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Cordoba's class is too much work for no reason whatsoever. He has color maps for every module, around 12, which sounds fine, yet collecting the data and tracing/ coloring in the countries can easily take three hours. In addition to this, his instruction can be vague, leading to doing the assignment incorrectly, yet his online class sounds worse.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Hilton Cordoba was not only super kind but also very available outside his work hours to help with homework questions via video or phone call. He understands people having a life outside grad school but also has a vast knowledge of his field. I took his classes every chance I could get.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Too long of lectures and the quizzes are difficult. Discussion questions to answer on random articles. Labs are the only decent and well thought out assignment/s. Just a tough professor. Don't take unless you have to like me.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
8-week course on BlackBoard. BE PREPARED TO WORK. 6 assignments (2 location qzs, 2 lecture quizzes, and 2 spatial analysis quizzes or reaction papers) due each week. Once you find a rhythm, it gets easier. Almost dropped the class bc I didn't think I could handle the workload...it got easier as I went. Easy and interesting material to learn tho!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Clear that this professor has not had a classroom assessment course due to the way his test and assignments are 10 min for a 20 question test is wild and there is no need to do that. 3weekly quizzes like that 3.8 gpa and struggled to maintain a B- asked to retest cause shading was messed up and was told no but other students were allowed to retest.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I do not find this to be a 100-level course load. Despite reaching out I have not received any feedback that was helpful until it was too late. I would also highly recommend if you have children or a full time job, not taking this course (or other asynchronous courses w/ this prof.), as it's been almost impossible to keep up with the course load.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not take Cordoba if you can avoid it. His quizzes are legitimately difficult and you will be asked things that he does not tell you. Expect to spend at least five hours doing homework a week if you want to do somewhat good. If you take an online class, my best advice is to genuinely take notes on everything he says like a transcript. Avoid him.