Reviews of professor Gema Valencia-Turco

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She means well and is a nice person, but the workload is unnecessary. For a Gen Ed the amount of work she assigns is too much.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Profesora Valencia-Turco is an incredibly caring, engaging, and funny professor. Attendance is important but really helps with understanding content, what to expect on quizzes, and building knowledge. I would 100% recommend taking this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Highly recommend taking Eating Cultures for Human Behavior (GB) GenEd. Great class if you love food. Assigns bigger projects (really, just a paper and slightly longer readings) earlier in the semester, which can be a little annoying in the moment, but totally worth it at the end of the semester when there's nothing to worry about for her class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took her for Hispanic readings, she only cares that you try to participate during class, not how well you speak which was nice for someone who isn't fluent. There was a lot of reading but it was just short stories every week and some comprehension questions for hw. Short, easy quizzes on the stories. Not alot of grammar, straight forward exams.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I don't know what class these other reviews had taken but Eating Cultures was ridiculous. The information was interesting and she's an easy grader, but the workload was depressing. This is a Gen-Ed, and I had twice as much work in this class than I did in my other classes. It honestly felt like a writing-intensive course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Gema did a great job with presenting the information that we needed to learn even though we were synchronous. I was excited for this class and I did need the credits for the gen-ed, but if you want a chill, laidback professor who is super sweet and caring then definitely take her! She made this class easy and fun. I definitely recommend!!