So its only 3 weeks into the quarter and Profe gets the son of Cesar Chavez to make a personal video greeting and inspirational message for us! It was amazing to hear from this legend's son, and for a class on Cesar Chavez it made it more REAL to me. Ive taken a class with Dr Garcia Martinez before, and these are the things he does. Its very nice.

His material can be confusing and not very engaging on top of that, he is very arrogant and doesn't care much about his students. He comes off as nice but at the end of the day, he just wants to hear himself talk and silence whoever doesn't agree with him. If you're a parent or have a job etc. stay away from this professor.

I've taken 2 classes with Dr. G-M and I'm totally serious when I say to IGNORE posts saying he's a terrible or awful professor. He has NEVER denied anyone a chance to express themselves in the classes that I sat in. In fact, he was ALWAYS trying to prompt us, but most of the class was busy with their phones or not doing doing the reading to talk.

He does not let you express how you interpreted the reading and he wants you to focus on how he saw tge reading. He wasnt very clear on one of the essay prompts and made it seem like it was the students fault when it was his lack of clear wording. It was honestly my least liked class while here at UCSB. There is no freedom for expression.

Wasnt a fan of the way he has his class structured. You have to really read in between the lines on all work and go with what he says. It seems like you arent allowed to have a mind of your own when it comes to the reading and how you react to it. His tests will can have fives answers for one point if you get them all correct otherwise you get .5

Profe was intimidating the first day. The first thing he said to us was Chicana literature is not activism, its not sociology, it is an artform, something aesthetic and amazing! He said it unapologetically and condescendingly, but he makes you curious and open to all its forms. Exams were WAY too specific, gave choices for paper, which is good.