Reviews of professor April Baca

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
April is super cool! Shes always trying to get ppl involved, but only a few in the front ever talk - so not sure why upset here. She helps you to do well if you try/ask questions!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is actually EASY, but she truly goes out of her way to make things hard by reading off a script with extensive & very high vocabulary that you would never use in conversational language. Nobody understands what shes talking about. You dont have any tests, so yay for that but save yourself some time and DONT take her.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Wish I got to take Art 223 with her. Super easy going and willing to work w/ you when you need her to. Super smart and I think is one of the best art instructors at CSUSB.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Baca was amazing. I struggled with the class very much and thought I was going to fail but after talking to her about my grade she gave me the opportunity to earn some points. There were no exams for this class but there are papers due probably every other week and when theres no papers due, there are discussions and reading responses.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She uploads lectures to discuss the articles. There is a lot and some are very long and difficult to interpret. If you are not an Art major you will struggle, she caters more towards the art majors forgetting that most of us have never taken an art course. You will have to WORK HARD for an A. She does offer creative options to assignments.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I would avoid at all cost. It shows that she has not taught a lecture hall style of class. if you're not an art major or not into the feminist theory in art this class isn't for you. She did work with us with lowering our reading and such but overall this class is the worse class I have taken here.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Super cool teacher & love her to death, but she assigned a lot of homework. She actually had to cut our workload in half because she realized it was too much, especially for non-art majors. Discussion board posts once a week. No tests whatsoever. Two papers: a short (3-4 pages) & a long (5-6) pages + a presentation at the end. Learn Chicago Manual!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Avoid this class at all cost. April makes this course a living hell. She is unexperienced and does not know how to make art engaging for those who aren't art majors. Her grading is terrible and she makes attendance worth way more than anything you'll have to turn in. Her structure works for a seminar but not for a lecture hall. Terrible instructor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I got an A!!! So glad I stuck with this class. I wasn't sure about it at first, but I learned so many different/new things about art. I used to think it was just about enjoying it, but now I know theres so much more happening. :)