Brigitte Davila

if you're a student who: likes to write emails(and enjoy not getting any replies back), likes to go to class because you are forced to (since the teacher is taking roll all the time), likes a class where you can't really participate mainly because the only thing everyone's talking about is politics and participating in stupid rallies about joining coalitions, likes online quizzes that are posted up LATE and are only allowed to take it for 60mins with 2 pop(sometimes) essays in it (you're lucky if the computer crashes on you and you only get 1 chance to take the quiz), likes a teacher who always shows up LATE, likes a disorganized teacher, likes a teacher who expects you to know politics, instead of her teaching you about it, likes getting overwhelmed with stuff and likes the color RED...then, TAKE THIS CLASS!!!

Brigette has a dynamic, vivacious personality and a great sense of humor. She's seems like she's a great person, but had a lot going on in her personal life which kept her from focusing on her teaching. She was soooo unorganized..but I guess that kind of worked in favor of the class slackers. A lot of the class (and all of the tests) were on Blackboard, and she let us have days off to compensate for online time spent at home. Because the quizzes were online, they were open note and came directly out of the articles in the reader nad the text. I really dont think, though, that the majority of our assignments ever got graded. She was always running behind and confused and didn't even post out last quiz. The Community Service Learning component of the class let us do physical work in the community and earn units for it.Basically, I hardly went to class and did "okay" on the quizzes and I managed just fine.

Davila is a really cool person. She is funny so her lectures don't put you to sleep, she is super understanding with any problems you may have with her assignments. She is also flexible with her assignments as well and the class is relatively easy, most of it is on blackboard which makes it cool because some days you don't have to go to class. Like I said she is very nice but my big complaint on her is that she is very unorganized. We didn't have that many assignment and she didn;t grade half of them. The computer grades them for the most part she just has to grade the essay questions. I received my grade and don't even know how I got it because I don't know how i did on half the assignments. She is a little irresponsible too and her assignments are easy buther deadlines and requirements are unclear because she makes it confusing. If you're okay with an unorganized person you'll do fine because she's cool but if you need structure like me it gets very annoying.

To be fair, Davila was teaching out of her department (La Raza), and was thrown into this class last minute. This was one of those meet-once-a-week-for-3hrs classes, and the first 3 classes consisted of figuring out who was to be teaching it, of course rendering the syllabus useless.

When it was finally established that she was actually teaching the class, she spent an entire class going over how we would be graded: 4 quizzes, mid-term, three 7-10 pg papers, a group project, class participation and The Library Requirement.

The class thought collectively: DAMN!, but in the end our entire grade was based on two 7-10 pg papers and the Library Requirement...class participation may have been included, but who knows...Davila let the same 2 or 3 students drone on incessantly about how they had been personally screwed over by the White Man.

She also tended to work La Raza stuff into the lectures that didn't really suppliment the topic. Additionally, she rarely tied the readings with the lectures, and missed and/or cut short numerous classes.

She's obviously intelligent and would do OK in her field, but her lack of enthusiasm, organization and consistency made this class a learning Purgatory.