Reviews of professor Elena Alvarado-Strasser

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Alvarado-Strasser is a great teacher. The grading in her class is fair (just do the work), her lectures are interesting and she is will work with students who are having a hard time. Her class got me seeing the world in a new way.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Alvarado-Strasser's class is pretty straight forward. Same stuff every week: reading, discussion, paper, and journal. She really cares about students learning and her feedback on your work is actually helpful. The contract grading is a little bit different and weird, but basically she rewards you for doing the work. Actually interesting stuff.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Alvarado-Strasser is very thorough, course is well organized in Canvas. Encourages students to utilize office hours. Prompt and fair grader. Heavy textbk reading, weekly discussions, weekly quizzes (optional), minor assignments, 3 major papers, avoid final by minimal late/missing assignments. You'll appreciate the BOOST assignments and Checkpoints.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amazing professor that really cared about students on an individual level and made the content very understandable. Also was very funny and made lectures very interesting and engaging.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This course was more challenging than most ccsf classes.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She's a really good teacher and you can tell she cares about sociology and teaching. Her grading system is forgiving and homework is flexible. But don't take this class if you have social anxiety because there is a lot of interactions with others.