Sorgon, Kent Elson

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Con 1: It’s difficult to take notes. She only has a powerpoint 1/2 the time, and of those times, she stays on one slide for the whole session (the topic slide or the title slide or just the “table of contents”). Con 2: She legit just keeps talking and talking about different things, incorporating real life scenarios now and then, as if ranting. It’s hard to find the content of her lectures. Con 3: She assigns a lot of readings, but barely discusses them. Expect almost 1000 pages of reading split into around 6 modules, and she expects you to know the whole module when you go to class. She’ll talk about very minor concepts, and she’ll just assume you already know it. Con 4: Her assessments are so long. Single Spaced 5 Pages, on prompts that are overly simple. Sobrang mema to extend your answer to a one-liner question (which is usually the case for the prompts). Con 5: She barely returns assessments. Con 6: She has a lot of make-up classes, and usually, there are things that matter in those classes. Con 7: She may forget to upload a reading. She once forgot to upload the source material for our midterm paper, so the class had to find a copy on our own. (We were lucky enough to find an old edition of it online). Pro 1: Bola seems to work. Extending the paper and sounding smart, kinda works. She doesn’t seem to grade low on bola papers. Pro 2: She grades super high. Again, bola works. Pro 3: Alotta free cuts, if you’re into that. She has like a “Research break” week thing to let you finish a paper. Tip: I’ll be honest and say I read about like 5% of the readings she gave. I read the short ones just to say I did. For the others, I read the bolded headers and pretended like I knew what was up. I survived by doing my own research. I watched videos and read Wikipedia pages on those headers or topics, and I understood it better without going through all her readings. Get important lines from the readings (Command F lang the topics you need), and use from some of your own online or scholarly resources (she allows that) for papers. It’s A-able. Good luck!more

negativeHISTO 12

TLDR: RUN AWAY! If you can’t load rev or the histo 12 class is pre-enlisted, read below: - Definitely NOT A/B+ able. Her grading system sucks. If i understood it correctly, for every one mistake, it’s a 1% deduction from your grade??? - She loves discussion boards. There’s a question or instruction you have to follow based on the assigned readings. There’s no max word count, so yap all you want! She likes an in-depth historical analysis, citing required & suggested readings and scholarly sources in JSTOR or rizal lib. Cite in chicago manual of style. - If you think you understand her instructions well, that’s also a time you should be in doubt. Clarify things with her!!! But do this onsite because she’s very late in replying to canvas messages. She doesn’t like emails. If you’re the beadle, you’ll communicate with her thru her personal number. - A lot of us got a 0 on our first disc board because finding rizal’s annotation from a book with so many pages was challenging. She didn’t really provide much detail regarding this. Citation is part of the rubric here BUT we weren’t given even a single point 🥲 She never explained why we got 0, how to improve, etc. - She did give us an opportunity to make up for that 0, but we wouldn’t get a full point daw. Here’s the thing... She said only certain people can do it lang daw?? But i think no one got an email about that or knew. When my bm begged, that was the time she actually allowed everyone to bawi. - She will grade stuff at the very last minute, so you’ll never know where u stand until u receive your advisory marks and maybe when u receive your final grade. Thats why work so hard on your disc boards. Rn i js hope i get a grade higher that my advisory mark… idk my grade for the last 3 disc boards… - DO NOT BE BEADLE in the class if (A) you do not want your laptop (that can be connected to a projector) to be used by her to present her messy and unappealing ppts. It’s unprofessional of her to not bring her own. (B) if you’re impatient in waiting for replies/a makulit texter. She’ll reply when she feels like it. - We rarely saw her cos most of our classes were online or asynch. While this can be good (since u can use ur time to do smth more productive), you won’t actually learn anything. When we had online classes, she’ll usually just play a recorded video lecture… - During onsite classes, stay in front. Her voice is so soft. It’s hard to hear. - We had 2 activities that we can get extra credit points from but it doesn’t guarantee that we’ll get a point cos she’ll still grade it based on the disc board rubrics. - Groupings are assigned BUT she’s open to having you transfer to another group if necessary. - You don’t need to attentively listen to her class and to take down notes. No written/oral exams.more

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RUN AWAY! Load rev or drop the subject as soon as you got enlisted in her class. Why? Well compared to Francesca, mine's a little more straightforward. - In terms of attendance, she didn’t have a good track. Looking back I believe we only had less than 10 onsite sessions with her the whole semester. March we only saw her once and in April only twice. - Her number 1 rule is no haggling over grades. Why? Because this prof has some serious superiority complex. She wants to make you feel like she is the best one there is because all parts of her are credible. Now I do understand that we need to respect her decisions, but her instructions are unclear and she made most of us 0 in one of our discussion posts just because we did not know what kind of discussion she was looking for even if we referred to the reading she gave. She got mad when we were inquiring about this turnout. - She does not grade our works and does not give constructive feedbacks unless required by the university to submit their grades. We were having a hard time trying to test the waters because we did not know where the waters were. Basically, she just lets her student figure everything out on their own and if they get a low grade (without her guidance) and you ask about it, she won’t give a care. Which is why more than half of our class got a D in the advisory marks. - She doesn’t like students asking questions about her instructions. She’d rather say “Are you confused or you just did not understand?” With this, I’d like to add that she never responds to any kind of messages may it be on canvas or email. She just accepts messages through her personal number which can only be texted by our beadle. All of our questions were left unattended. - Her instructions are very CONFUSING. Her instructions from canvas are quite contrasting against the ones in the syllabus. But we cannot ask for clarification about it. - Her readings are very heavy, especially her discussion posts. She even made us summarize and analyze el fili and noli during the holy week break. - We did not learn much from her class because besides that we’re always online or asynchronous, our online synchronous are pre-recorded videos only and she will just ask synthesis questions before the session ends. - Her voice is too soft only the people sitting in front can hear her voice. - She does not bring her own device, instead, she borrows our classmate’s/beadle’s laptop for her presentations that’s why they cannot take notes. - She was caught by our classmate not listening to our presentations and was just scrolling through her phone the whole time. - In her lessons, she makes it interesting at first, but after a few minutes, the lesson becomes 60% about her and her upbringing. - Her grading system sucks and will fool you. It is unfair because you won’t get a chance to pull up your grades. With every point that you lose in your requirements is a percentage that you lose in your overall grade. For example, I got 25/30 in my midterms, the best overall grade I could get decreased to 95. - She makes it difficult for her students to ask questions until it becomes an anxiety for us. Students in our class just point at each other who will ask a question because she will definitely get mad. - She became kind and considerate only when the evaluation forms are out. - Until now, we still don’t know our class standing in this subject.more

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Just finished taking Sir this semester. For me, A-with effort (not a terror prof). He is a very knowledgeable prof in the subject, while not necessarily having a background in psychology (has a background in law), he has taught the subject much better than some of my actual psychology professors have done. The modules are easy to understand, and the lectures, which are often a repetition of the modules (sometimes, but still take notes), help add onto it with examples. His classes are very organized, schedule everything ahead of time (save for sudden disruptions), and are easy to communicate with (prefers Slack and hates Canvas mailbox). He gives very barkada vibes and loves talking to students in between the breaks that sometimes you forget he is your professor. He is approachable and loves talking about his interests in video games and K-pop (for my section). DO NOT BE LATE to his class, as he hates that and won't hesitate to call you out on the spot. However, he is very exact in his expectations/rubrics, so I suggest consulting as much as possible. Personally, I would take Sir's class again. Just GET GOOD GROUPMATES. If shared equally and done ahead of time, the workload is not heavy at all, but be prepared, this course is very writing-heavy. But there are no discussion boards, only assignments and quizzes. ------ REQUIREMENT DETAILS BELOW: For requirements, we had four assignments (1 individual and 3 group-work but optional if you prefer to work on them alone), and three quizzes: Assignments: - Creative Project (Indiv): Work profile about yourself with application of comm theories. - Mid-Term Research Paper (Group/Indiv): First half of final paper. - Creative Project (Group.Indiv): Video (3-mins) about comm theme. - Research Paper presentation (Group/Indiv): Present 5 mins overview of the research. Sir will also ask questions here, so know your paper fully, and be ready to take his advice on changes. Part of Final research paper grade too. - Final Research Paper (Group/Indiv): Continuation of Mid-Term Research Paper. Consultation: - Each of the papers will have a designated consultation day. But you can email Sir if you want more. Quiz Details: - 2 Paragraph (10 points) and insert the 20 correct words in the box type (20 points). - Paragraph: Get straight to the point. Concise and put the big terms there. - What to study: Sir puts all the term details in the Canvas lessons. Highlight the terms there, study and memorize them, know what they mean and how it connects, and you should be good. - You can explain, challenge, and expound your answer if it is not exact during the answer reading. - Preferably, use Sir's exact wordings in the explanation in Canvas, and you can get a high score in the paragraph section. - Bonus points if you - No curving in our class due majority having the same score. - Review at least a week before as depending on the modules covered, there are a lot of terms.more

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