I had a poor experience with Span W1, but retaking the class with Professor Barry was a great learning experience. She was excellent with students, the slides were helpful and engaging for me instead of just another slideshow. The group activities were simple and easy to work on with a team, which made it easy to apply what we were learning.

I had Caragh for Spanish 25 and she pushed me to achieve my potential. The class is all about grammar, which can be daunting to many, but she genuinely wants to see you succeed. Her feedback on the assignments is honest and helpful, and office hours should definitely be utilized. Definitely a challenging course, but it's doable.

Just don't take her; the lectures weren't bad but were pretty boring. However, her grading is insane; it felt like she needed us to prove ourselves to her rather than learn. Very discouraging and her feedback was not helpfull. I asked questions and engaged in every lecture and still didnt get 100% for attendance. Avoid at all costs.

extremely difficult grader. Doesn't go over the homework but excepts you to know everything/write fluently on the writing assignments. She runs class typical to the spanish department except is incredibly nitpicky when it comes to grading and writing. Cried for hours because of this class. Save yourself.

Comes across as nice but when it comes to grading she marks you off for every little thing. Graded essays like we were supposed to be fluent, even though this is a lower-div class. Overall just a poor teacher and bad grader. Avoid if you can!

Nice person and all but as a professor her class style wasn't supportive of learning Spanish. We mostly talked to our peers for every class, hardly learned from her bc of VHL and had little support irl. Biggest gripe is her extremely nitpicky grading. Nothing is good enough for her and would take points for weird reasons. I'd avoid if I were you!