Reviews of professor Rodolfo Fernandez

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Fernandez is nice and passionate about history but his lectures are so boring and hard to pay attention to. He doesn't write much info on his slides and you have to rely on writing down everything he says and hoping you heard him right, and he wore a mask which made it harder. I found the 2 exams difficult but the blog posts are easy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Honestly one of my favorite professors. Starts off class asking "so who can summarize what we read" & "what did you think?" To prepare, I read before class (took me about an 1.5 hrs) and highlighted interesting or important points. Discussion posts werent very long. Exams were a summary of all content with some MC and a long essay.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I enjoyed this course, but I found the exams difficult. We were not given much time to complete 14/16 short answer and 4 multiple choice questions during the exam periods. The exams are weighted heavily too so if you are planning to take this course, study your notes.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Wanted to love him, but he is just not a great professor at all. He is a nice guy, and he made our exams open note which was wonderful, but his lectures are terrible. All over the place, never follow a specific format, and he rambles. Very unclear when it comes to material/what he wants in assignments. Very boring. Not the worst, but not the best.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Fernandez is a really great professor. He is very caring, the only professor that streamed our class online if students were feeling sick or couldn't make it to class. He has very interesting lectures, less overwhelming for students. Grading was straight forward: weekly participation, few blog posts midterm exam, an analysis paper and final exam.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class was not what I had imagined, and I was disappointed. I had multiple questions that I would email him about, and I never heard back from him. He seems nice, but his lectures are long and dense. He changed the syllabus right before our midterm and changed it to in-person open-note and the final (30%) closed-note.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Fernandez was no joke. I bombed the midterm and wasn't consistent with showing up to class but he worked with me at office hours 2nd half of the sem and I pulled off an A on the final. Do the readings, ask questions and go to office hours, it is SO worth it. Especially if taking this course for gen ed credit... he wants to help when needed.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
4 blog posts that are more like mini essays, 1 presentation, and one 10 page paper where you write 5 pages of it for the midterm and the other 5 for the final. Assigns lots of readings but you arent quizzed on them so you really only have to skim them. A bit picky, so go to his office hours to talk about the paper.