Reviews of professor Diana Garcia-Montiel

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Montiel is a good professor. She cares about Biology and has passionate lectures. She was flexible, wanted feedback on how to improve, and always curved the exams. Her accent made it difficult to understand some of the terminology at times, but it isn't a complete barrier. She also had a lot of tech issues, but got better throughout the semester.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is incompetent. Unable to provide clear communication and instructions. Won't grade a thing until after final. Spends most of class time stuttering, "Ahh, Umm, UhHHh, SOoo." Spends first 30 minutes of the lab trying to prepare the class and to upload the modules onto Canvas during the class. Unprepared, Unprofessional. Avoid.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is a very tough grader and can be a bit confusing in terms of what she expects from you as a student. When it comes to setting deadlines she is also confusing, she stated that a paper was due on May 7th but the link to turn in the paper closed a week prior and she still did not want to accept the paper even though it was her mistake.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Montiel is nice and responds to email quick. Material is not that hard, but she found a way to make it complicated. Hard test and get ready to take notes. Lecture videos are hard to understand. The person speaking in the video she chose talks very slow.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is an extremely nice lady but the entire class had a hard time understanding her thick accent. Every power point, email, and assignment from her had spelling and grammatical errors yet she is a harsh grader. It is easier to skip class and learn the material through the power points but she does random class activities that affect your grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Very rude professor as she never replies to any emails. Especially since quarantine and class being online, I would expect a professor to reply back to student's emails. Very passive-aggressive and doesn't seem to understand what is going on with technology which makes it harder for students. Sadly I didn't see her rating before I took her class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is the worst professor I have had at CSUSM. She is is unhelpful, unprofessional, rude, and a pain to deal with. Her class is pretty easy and and the work is minimal but, the way it is structured is horrible. My best advice is to just do all the work and try and interact with her as little as possible. Very unhappy with my experience with her.