Reviews of professor Yanina Valdos

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I enjoyed this class! This professor posts her own lectures, and you don't need the book. You DO need to listen & take good notes to do well. Some quiz questions are hard but mostly doable. She does take time to grade homework, but do your best & study-you will be ok. She gives some extra credit, yay. Lectures are interesting & easy to listen to.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took this class in the fall and was such a great experience. Professor Valdos cares about her students. This class is entirely lecture-heavy, she does not have a final, just weekly quizzes and a discussion board biweekly. If you need help just ask her! Some of the material is hard but that's just what college is.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very stressful class, extremely hard, and late grading. Boring lectures every week for hour 1+, quizzes on the lectures are very confusing, you can not change your answers on the quiz & there is a timer of like 20 min to finish. Also you will not know your grade till the last week of school when she is done grading everything. DON'T  NOT TAKE HER!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
took it as a spring intersession course online and wow it was a lot of work, and her quizzes are lecture based, but also designed to see if you fully understand the material. college is SUPPOSED to be hard so i appreciated the challenge and it definitely helped me grow as a student. if you are looking for that, def recommend her!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Valdos is a very passionate and knowledgeable instructor, she made learning anthropology very interesting and engaging. She encourages you to ask questions and is great at simplifying topics and giving explanations. The course is very organized and there are many opportunities for extra credit. Overall it was an amazing experience.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She loves Anthro, which makes it fun and extremely interesting. She makes videos for each module. But the lecture is where I learned the most. There's a quiz every week, but no final, personally, it kept me accountable and less stressed at the end of the course.  We were allowed one index card for the quiz. Discussion boards and 2 replies weekly.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Valdos genuinely knows her course material and is passionate about explaining it to you. She is approachable and will make time to answer your questions. The quizzes are very manageable if you take notes and make an index card with your notes to reference during the quiz. I highly recommend professor Valdos.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Valdos' lectures were very informative and generally time efficient.  I think an hour of lectures a week for an online course isn't too bad.  The grades were spread out pretty fairly so that no one quiz or assignment was a life or death matter.  She provided great feedback