Professor Alves made lectures interesting! Along with TA Lexxus being super sweet and understanding, this class was really easy and as long as you pay attention in lecture and do the readings, it's an easy pass. Do know that this class is participation heavy, but it's really not that bad at all.

Sweetest professor ever —very lecture-heavy, but no assignments. Participation matters, but as long as you engage in conversation on the topics in class, you'll be fine. Would definitely take another class from him.

Professor Alves does not care about his students. This quarter, he has given us multiple assignments that are due within two days of his posting the prompt, often posting on Friday, due on Sunday. Many students work on the weekends. Additionally, he is usually late to his own class. Students wait 20+ minutes with no communication from the prof

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.