Reviews of professor Jorge Aquino

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Aquino is genuine and caring and always willing to work with students in order for both him and the student to find success. His lectures are mostly interesting although sometimes difficult to follow since he is so intelligent and well-versed in philosophy, theology, and latin american perspectices and many students are not as knowledgable.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof. Aquino is a great teacher but he definitely teacher upper division classes for a reason! He is hard to understand because his language is so esoteric and he is almost so smart that he needs to dumb it down a bit for the class to even understand. Super educated guy, really really hard class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Profe. Aquino's gateway seminar was the hardest class I took by far. A ton of difficult reading (translated texts) and difficult lectures to follow. BUT he cared about making the class applicable for his students more than any professor/teacher I've ever had. Ended up being my favorite class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Aquino is chill. Just be prepared for really long lectures. Also most assignments/papers were extremely open ended, not a lot of clarity on what exactly we should be doing which was a little frustrating. Overall he was cool just felt like I didn't learn that much.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Classes were very discussion-based, lots of dense reading, and lots of writing. However, Professor Aquino is very passionate about what he teaches and makes you want to engage and learn. His feedback for papers is amazing and he is a great professor, but he is also hard to understand since he talks over your head.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took Race and Religion in America by him and I absolutely loved him and the class. He's very real and all about stating the facts. He would let me go on rants all the time and it was great. You have to complete 3 presentations based on the readings, conduct one seminar, write a bio about yourself and complete the midterm and final, very manageabl

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
No textbook required. No midterm or final exam, but rather 2 long papers. Two reflections based on readings are due each week. Extremely passionate about what he teaches and genuinely cares about his students.