Caribbean Identities

Perla is really very congenial and accomodating once she remembers your name, and once you start to talk...a lot. This course is about reading texts related to three Caribbean nations: Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. The reading load is considerable but doable and the workload, three short essays, one longer essay, and oral project in class are not too demanding if you do work consistently throughout semester. My advice: do the reading as much as possible and then say whatever you like about it, as long as it's not totally irrelevant. Do your best to talk all the time. She's willing to let you re-write things when you've done poorly, she's generous about extensions, easy to understand, and patient with those people who once knew Spanish but haven't had it in a year or two. Fair class, fair grader, (though i haven't gotten the final grade yet?!?!)... And as far as nice, knowledgable professors in the Spanish Department go, she's up there.