Reviews of professor Magdalena Matuskova

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Matuskova is the best on campus who actually cares about your progress in speaking Spanish. She does assign a ton of homework, quizzes, readings, a few exams and reflections, but every assignment she grades she gives immense feedback. If you want to pursue Spanish seriously she is a passionate teacher. If you care, she wants to help you.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is hands down the worst teacher I have had in my entire life. Lectures are rather useless, so you have to teach yourself, even though it was unclear what we needed to be learning anyway. She had very high expectations for our endless work with very unclear instruction. Super disorganized, no one ever knew what to expect. Don't expect any help.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is the most stressful spanish class ever. She does not follow the syllabus or basically any timeline she gives to you. There are so many extensive projects that she gives with barely anytime to prepare for. I would never recommend this class to anyone.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is super nice and clearly wants you to do well. This being said, she does give a lot of work, most of it is very helpful though. She gives lots of good feedback on writing assignments and makes helpful corrections to grammar and common mistakes she spots during class and doesn't call you out. If you really want to get better at spanish take her

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She assigns too much work even for a 4000 level class. You're on your own to learn the material most of the time because of the open lecture format. There's also a lot of major projects, and the software for the homework is tedious and ineffective. Avoid taking this professor if you can.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Good at first asking what works and what needs to improve. Did breathing exercising to distress assigns a lot of work. Says she'll grade easy but that a huge no. Counts off for accents and very nitpicky. Changed grading format day grades were due & told no one. Asks how to make the workload better but ignores us & continuos to give more work

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a tough grader, as in if you miss an accent or an article, you are getting points off. Students teach the class thru powerpoints. She is so very unorganized and sends out emails almost every day going back on her word about what is due and how to do it. I have never had a worse professor. Please save yourself and do not take this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took Matuskova for SPAN 4150 [Business Spanish] and there were so many unnecessary work she required (ex: over 100 group and self evaluations), a million assignments were due, tons of reading daily, and the class was just pointless to fulfill a Spanish minor. AVOID HER AT ALL COSTS OR YOUR GRADE WILL SUFFER!