Professor Alves is great! He is passionate about what he teaches and makes lectures interesting. The class is overall fairly easy. I would definitely recommend taking this course.

I really enjoyed this class. Learned so many new things and ways of thinking about my own culture. TA helped a lot, but he really tries his best to get you to understand things in class. 3 essays for the entire quarter and a couple of last-minute extra credit opportunities. Overall would take his class again and it got me interested in this minor.

Provides little to no feedback and does not have a clear grading rubric Harsh grader and mandatory attendance and pop quizzes during a pandemic is inconsiderate and risky.

So many readings I felt like he over-complicated so many topics I didn't get to absorb much because every topic felt tangled up and like I wasn't educated enough on? I don't know I guess I was hoping to learn a lot more but he's really unapproachable & I am too scared to ask questions.

Professor Alves is a passionate teacher, one that has influenced me to take up a black studies minor. Some students complained that he graded the midterm harshly and didn't understand the feedback they received. Personally, I got an A and didn't believe the midterm to be too challenging. Only two tests and their both take home!

Terrible. Dont take him. He doesnt reply to emails, he ignores office hours, doesnt even use stuff from lectures in papers, has no rubrics for grading anything. 0/10.