Reviews of professor Rodolfo Fernandez

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I would highly recommend HIST 1600W as a double dipper for content area C as well as a W, especially if you're not great at history. It's graded by 5 short papers and 1 longer paper, no actual test of whether you learned the history. Not a tough grader. He's a great professor: very passionate and accessible outside class. You can tell he cares.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Easy A for elective. Lectures arent mandatory, only assignments are 4 blogs, one paper, and weekly participation in class or online. Exams are open note. His lectures are actually interesting and he plays music.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He is a very nice guy and is very passionate about teaching. The class is relatively easy and is a good elective to take, just 4 blog posts and 1 short paper. He does assign a decent amount of reading but you do not necessarily have to do it in order to do well on exams. My one complaint is that he is awful about answering emails.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I really enjoyed Professor Fernandez. His lectures were interesting and he really knew his stuff. There are two exams that are open note and a couple of easy blog assignments. The exams are mainly open-ended so as long as you show up and take good notes, you should end with an A. This is one of the only classes I did not dread going to.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was HORRIBLE. This is a 1000 level Gen Ed, but is easily the worst class I have taken. He switched the exams from online open-note to in-person closed-note on paper a week before the midterm. Lectures have no context or any information from his slideshows. Acts like everyone there is an LLAS major. Don't even get me started with the TA.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor is super sweet and funny. Lectures are very engaging and interesting, and it is important to participate. The homework is very reading-heavy and will take a long time to complete but is typically interesting material. I would take him again.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took this class online during the covid 19 pandemic, so please keep this in mind when deciding whether you would take his course or not. Professor Fernandez is a caring and knowledgeable professor. However, his grading criteria sometimes were unclear, and he treated the class as if it was a W course or an English course when it is not.