Reviews of professor Octavio Garcia

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
History major. I had sympathy for him because he has personal emergencies going on, but after I submitted my first essay, he claimed I plagiarized it. For context, it was an essay about slavery which blackboard tagged a Fredrick Douglass quote as plagiarized somehow. By far, the WORST professor I have ever had. Avoid like the plague.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hands down one of the worst encounters I've had at Miramar. The guy doesn't know how to stay on his own train of thought. The assignments we were indirectly told to do were in no way related to any of the rambling he did during class. Do not take this class. He may have a PhD but doesn't know the first thing about teaching.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
At first we had to read from 3 books then it was reduced to 2 because the other book had nothing to do with History and the readings are mandatory. Homework is mandatory miss 1 assignment and the highest grade you receive is a D. The papers are highly extensive and often times "aren't good enough" or require more "contextulization". Tough class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Garcia is passionate about history and he can talk for hours about it. He's a reasonable guy and kind but teach? I don't think he really did much of it. His assignments were to read a lot and then the final paper he wanted he had to really no prompt and no grading rubric. Not very clear on what he expected from us.