Very nice person who tries to make class interesting. There is a big project in which you choose a field site in the community and study people in the setting. For winter 2012, we had to relate it to justice. Be prepared to do a lot of work for this project. Otherwise, pulling off a B in the class was pretty easy as long as you put in the effort.

Interesting class material, but Dr. Rios is absolutely horrible at communicating. Never responded to urgent emails even after I spoke to him in class multiple times. Never graded any of the assignments we had 2x a week so I had no idea what my grade was or if I was doing the assignments well until the final grades came out.

I have never written a RMP post until meeting Dr. Rios. He's the most inspirational professors I have ever met. Not only is his past so moving, but he makes such an effort to connect to his students, something rare especially post pandemic. I feel like I have learned so much intrinsically rather than just going through the motions of the course.

Professor Rios is incredibly understanding and is an amazing lecturer. I have a lot of respect for him as a person but I took off a star as he is awful at communicating; no response to emails, miscalculated grades, and unclear grading criteria. Easy class, great professor but poor communication.

Rios really knows what hes talking about and is a great speaker. Theres disc posts every week a takehome midterm and final and a final paper. if you know what youre doing and turn in good work youll be fine. The only thing id critique is the horrible communication. I got my final grade but only the paper and midterm were graded on GS

Had to recalculate my own grade in order to receive the grade I had actually earned. Lack of communication, no transparency with grades or grading, the class by the end was frustrating, disheartening, and unfair. It was more difficult to get them to post the correct grade than it was to do the class itself. Wouldn't recommend