Great professor!!

Silvia es la mejor maestra de Espanol de UCSB. Apasionada en su trabajo, liberal y preocupada en que sus estudiantes tomen conciencia y hagan buen uso de sus inteligencias y de las inovaciones tecnologicas. Un privilegio haber tomado sus clases.

She's an amazing professor. I've taken a lot of her classes and they are always interesting. She makes everything easy to understand. She's one of the very few people that care about helping the students.By taking her classes you will notice that you're constantly becoming a better student, writer, you will constantly be improving thanks to her.

I had her twice in Span 172 and Span 110C. Three words define her: loud, eccentric, passionate. Really good professor, may be a little scary and intimidating but good overall.

She's the best spanish professor!! Loves teaching but will try and intimidate her students.

SHE IS THE BEST PROFESSOR IN THE SPANISH DEPARTMENT

She is a great professor you couldn't ask for a better one. She's a very fair teacher and is very interested in helping you understand the material so you can do well in the class. She makes any topic interesting and offers unique perspectives. I've had several courses with her Span 110 C and D as well as Span 175 and i've taken Independent studies

Ok, so yes just like everyone mentioned she does come of as somewhat mean and condescending. However, she is a great professor and very passionate about the literature. Class is pretty easy.

Every class I have ever taken with her was quite challenging. She can be very intimidating and overbearing but she truly is passionate about her field. If your ideas are well founded she will respect them. She has some liberal, feminist, pov's that might rub some people the wrong way but I found her alternative views refreshing.

GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!! This is the WORST class I took as an undergrad. She constantly criticizes students for being lazy, stupid, etc. Not to mention that her class is SO ridiculously hard. All she does is talk! There's no outline or way to follow. I took this class with friends and we ALL hated her. Study groups turned into HATE groups.

Like already mentioned very liberal, anti-america, not helpful in class, if students dont feel like talking about the literature then she wont either, apparently its not her job to analyze the literature unless students do it first, fairly easy 2 tests and a paper, but as a person she really got under my skin

She will scare you the beginning of the class, but her classes are manageable. I got an A in this class and I only studied 2 hours before each test. Just know how to survive for this class and you will do fine

By far the worst professor I have had at UCSB. Every other professor I've had in the Spanish department has been very helpful and extremely approachable. Silvia is arrogant and condescending whenever possible. She is self-righteous and puts down students that hold different views than her own. Take something else if you can.

Incredibly arrogant, very liberal, will make you agree with her opinions if you want to pass the class. She doesn't teach. You read and are responsible for starting the discussion. I enjoyed the book and learned a lot from it, but she taught me nothing and annoyed me quite a bit.

She's engaging and funny, but her whole mantra is about trying to get you to think for yourself and she does exactly the opposite of this. She doesn't discuss opposing views, is not objective at all (VERY liberal) and makes serious generalizations about the class's intelligence and awareness of the world around them.

Passionate, challenging, and very fair overall... What more do you need? Profesora Bermudez is by far one of my favorites! Definitely a professor in the Span dept. you don't want to miss out on.

She'll try n' scare you out, but she makes you want to learn.

Really good teacher!

She does not take**** from students, she gets right to the meat of things no bull with this professor. She will kick you out if you talk when she is teaching. She will inspire you to do your best in whatever subject, she really cares about her students. REally do the readings before lecture, b/c she expects interaction with the students.

Probablly one of my favorite at UCSB...

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Completely intimidating at first, and actually sometimes mean, but she is just trying to challenge you and make you think for yourself. I felt interested and inspired by her teaching style.

comes off mean but is a great prof!!.. makes lecture very interesting and not much homework..

she's an awesome teacher! at first she comes off a bit scary, but i really got into her style as the quarter went on. the only thing to worry about is the paper at the end. she basically tells you what she wants you to write on the midterm.