It's all true. The worst professor I have had the misfortune of meeting my entire academic career. Rude, belittling, and just neurotically insane to be honest. She yells at and scolds the class daily about effort yet literally did not even lecture once. On the final class she stormed out after mocking students in response to feedback on the course.

When we asked for help in this class, the professor rudely criticized us for wanting it and shamed us for not knowing better. The class itself was pretty difficult because there were no rubrics to their high expectations, but the TAs eventually helped us. Overall, the professor makes the class very unlikable and makes you want to stay home.

I genuinely enjoyed the subject but the professor is TERRIBLE. Silvia is very rude and dismissive to everyone. VERY UNPROFESSIONAL. Honestly lacks social skills cause she undermines everyone and believes she is is above everyone. Overall class wasn't bad but just the professor. I enjoyed talking with TA's and attending office hours

Other than belittling her students professor Bermudez adds nothing to this course by far the most unwelcoming professor I've ever come across. Lacks the ability to take criticism and when given suggestions by students her only response was to tell them how their suggestions are all wrong.

extremely difficult and very rude. She grades tough but that's fine. However, she will ask you to speak up multiple times if you try to participate. at the end of the year, she asked us for feedback on the class. For every piece of constructive criticism, she proceeded to shoot everyone down and turned the criticism on us instead.

The class has great content, and I loved learning about Latin American and Indigenous history. However, the professor's teaching style is unwelcoming. She belittles students. The grading is terrible; I'm a straight-A student, and getting a B in this class brought my GPA down. No matter how many office hours I attended, it didn't help.

The professor is disrespectful and dismissive, often using shame and harsh criticism, making students feel inadequate. Her attitude is rude and unprofessional, creating a frustrating learning environment. The course consists of three harshly graded assignments, with inconsistent grading. Overall, this class is stressful and I do not recommended.

The TA's are great and the structure of the class was fine. However, the professor was discouraging and mean the entire time. During our last class, she was asking for criticism. When students responded with real criticism for her (in a nice way), she was very mean and passive aggressive to them in front of everyone and stormed out of class.

Overall the class was formatted and organized. However, the professor was extremely cynical, unprofessional, and extremely demeaning. Also, although I did well, I felt it was unfair to expect the same professionalism and rigorous writing that 2nd and 3rd years have developed from incoming freshman. The TA's were nice and helped lot though.

She acts as if the class is a upper division, bro like chill it ain't that deep

She is such a mean person

This class is heavy on reading, you only have 3 written assignments and attendance is mandatory for your grade. She is a very serious teacher who looks like she would be very passionate about this class but truth is she rarely even teaches the class. If you want a class that just brings guest speakers this class is for you.

Prof. Bermudez is clearly knowledgeable about the subject material, but will treat the class like highschoolers. 3 assignments in the 5-paragraph essay format, which is extremely limiting for the response she is expecting. There are many guest lecturers and they are interesting, but to be lectured by the professor herself is disheartening.

She is very complicating to work with. She doesn't foster a positive environment for participation. If you are even two minutes late, she will call you out in front of the entire class and scold you. She is super inaccessible if you need to be absent for an emergency. Attendance is mandatory & the section TAs are great. There's a lot of reading.

She is the most difficult person I have had to deal with in my time here at UCSB. She walks into lecture like she's the smartest person in the room, and picks on you when you don't raise your hand to say something every time. Attendance is practically mandatory and she is very unreachable when you cant make it. Super inflexible and arrogant.

Participation is extremely important in this course and Prof Bermudez will call on you if you don't volunteer. But in a condescending way and it doesn't foster an environment where students are encouraged to participate or feel they want to. TA was very nice and sections were easier. Make sure to read before every class and read very carefully.

The course syllabus is diametrically opposed to the teaching of the class. Panoptic pedagogy, Royal Spanish Academy imperialism, cultural and linguistic Eurocentrism and enlightened despotism are the professors pedagogical methods.

Silvia is the reason I am remaining a Spanish double major. She is literally one of the most amazing Spanish Department professor's who deserves the whole world. If there's one professor you should take, it's her!!! The course was really interesting and because she is so invested in the material, the class is even better!!

She's really passionate and may scare you at first but she really cares about the content of her classes and thinks it is important. She doesn't grade too hard despite how she comes off. Super chill class, basically an introduction class with little homework.

Not a hard class by any means, but she does expect you to read and participate- which is hard when the reading is dense. However, she does like to show short videos in class, and bring modern concepts into the study of Galician culture which allows you to put a lot of things into context. Two papers, a midterm, and attendance make up your grade!

She is very passionate about the subject matter, but expects a lot from her students. She is also pretty intimidating. Get ready to read A LOT. Everything about this class is based on the readings and you will have to do them because the midterm and finals are strictly based off of them. Would not recommend if you are not a native Spanish speaker.

Bermúdez is very intimidating, but if you do the reading and are prepared for class then she'll love you. She's very straight forward with what she expects. This was the first class in my college career in which I did all of the reading because I was afraid to be unprepared for class, but I consider this a good thing. I've never learned so much.

She can be intimidating but if you do what's expected of you she will respect you. A very tough grader but she will always tell you how to improve. My only issue is that both she and her TA grade the assignments (one after the other) so although you get 2 pair of eyes looking at your papers it can be tricky to sort the feedback.

Extremely intelligent and passionate. If you pay attention in class you are in for one of the best educational experiences our Spanish dept has to offer.