Reviews of professor Tania Leyva

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a nice and approachable professor, but she is not very good at teaching. She has a tendency to only rely on the textbook, which is bad because the textbook hard to understand. She is fun and easy going, but if you skip more than 6 classes, you fail. The exams are not bad, but the final was brutal and there was no way to study for it more.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
SPAN 2005 is a challenging course even if you are coming from the intermediate level, but Professor Leyva was very helpful in presenting the material in a way we could understand. Class involved a lot of pair/small group work, which she would monitor, quick to answer questions and correct students nicely. Overall a solid choice.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Super sweet, made speaking in class much less intimidating. Class is mostly group work, lots of chances to improve your grade.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Leyva creates an inviting environment for students to put themselves out there. Participation is graded harshly in her class, however, she is thoughtful and constructive with her feedback.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof. Leyva was wonderful! Her class was always so fun to attend and I enjoyed her teaching style. We had a relative amount of homework and just a few tests that reflected anything we had been learning. Lots of group and partner work in class too.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's so funny and makes class super fun. Participation is super important, but she makes it really easy to participate. I definitely learned a lot of Spanish. However, her exams are a bit hard and sometimes the material is unexpected, but it's not anything too bad.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor took away all the confidence I had in speaking, she was an incredible bias grader: Only ever taken from 1001, my Spanish was not at the level of others and she knew that and gave me "below standard" alway I knewshe was biased because even after I got a tutor to edit and help me with my papers she still would give me below standard.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Profe. Leyva is a nice professor who obviously enjoyed interacting with students more than the actual teaching part of her job. The whole class is based on the textbook, which is pretty normal for a Spanish class. However, I don't feel like I actually learned much. My spoken skills definitely did not improve, and I was often confused in class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I loved prof. leyva! She was super chill and gave clear guidelines about tests and assignments. GW spanish is kind of a pain in general but as long as you follow the rubrics you will be fine.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Leyva is one of the better professors in the Spanish department. She is a tough grader, and will correct you if you do things wrong, but she wants students to get better at Spanish. There are a decent amount things to be graded on in this class, but its mainly working through the textbook.