Reviews of professor Nikolai Ingistov Garcia

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DONT TAKE. No leniency,hard grader, mean. - pts for cell phone use, accents, ur accent. No retakes even for mental health reasons. 1 minute late=marked late, 3 lates=tarde. Does not care about you at all. Literally made me go to CAPS n drop all my classes bc of how much work there was. Should not be a teacher at all. Idk how he has a contract.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you are taking this class for breadth requirements and are just looking for a chill class for the quarter, look elsewhere. He has very high expectations for the class and is extremely inflexible when it comes to any accommodations. Otherwise he is a nice professor that will 100% prepare you for Spanish 4 if you need to take it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Is strict about attendance. Said that "for the sake of equality and equity" absolutely no excuses will be accepted. (ex he gave: student had to reschedule their surgery to attend the final) Even car accidents aren't excused. Also is condescending and talks down to us as if we were kids. Sucks that he teaches SPN003 since it's required to graduate.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's not a bad professor. He has very specific criteria and he expects you to follow it to a T. He demands that you submit HW double spaced and typed or else you get a 0 on the assignment. It's doable, but it can get confusing. Be sure to ask for clarification if you get lost. He is really a nice guy, just maybe a little overzealous.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Hands down my most favorite professor. He really cares about your learning and makes sure your foundation is very good before we move onto the next topic. I think this class is very easy, but may be hard if you do not put in any work. The homework takes me only 20 minutes a day to complete. If you don't study, you're bound to fail for sure.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Buy the textbooks, He will reference them for the homework. The class was definitely more lenient online since that was the only way to get him to post his power points. If you don't go to class not only will he dock off points, but you will never get the info for that day. Don't expect sympathetic grade changes. He explains the info really well!!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Garcia is a good professor but rushed through lecture and jam packs a ton of info in little time that it confuses you and hw piles up just for that class. If you don't show up to class you wont pass he's very strict on attendance and only allows 3 tardies. After that they start counting as absences. You have to write 4 in class essays.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
No remorse or help for students, very strict on attendance. Takes away 15% of grade if you are late to 2 classes. Im a bio major and this class was more difficult than the general chem series combined. This guy is awful.