Ann Blum - University of Massachusetts - Boston, Boston, MA

Professor: Ann Blum

Department: Languages

College: University of Massachusetts - Boston, Boston, MA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: LATAM290
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

The only successful thing she did was make me loathe learning about the area of the world that I am most interested in. Please do not take her.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: 210G
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She's great I really enjoyed her class. Shes super helpful and she likes to meet with people one on one and she is soooo sweet. Alot of work in her class dont miss the readings because they are important she makes you get 3 books for her class but they are all like chapter books.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: LATAM101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The workload for this class was absolutely ridiculous, especially given that it's an introductory course. Intense weekly quizzes on long, dense readings were painful in addition to rigid expectations on essays. Blum was nice, but left little room for outside opinion and made it difficult to feel any desire to put effort into learning the material.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: LATAM101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Extremely difficult and boring class. The textbook is a very dense history of many Latin American countries; I'm an avid reader and the readings were torture for me. She's a nice professor, will help when necessary, and is very intelligent and knowledgable. That being said, discussions she leads are long and nearly impossible to follow.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: LATAMG210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

for a intermidiate seminar, this isnt easy at all...if you want an easy grade THIS IS NOT THE WAY.. she takes her job seriously and makes u read and write and essays everywhere..the class is boring not interesting @ all..very boring

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: LATAM350
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She's a super smart but challenging teacher. Page long summaries of the chapters you read are due every class period. If you miss class you can't turn them in. The papers were my biggest stressor this semester but I was SO PROUD when I got As on them.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: LATAM101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She is a great professor! Very insightful, extremely smart, very passionate about the material, and very clear and articulate.Be prepared for intensive readings, lots of writing, group work, and quizzes.She was tough, but I loved the class and learned a lot. Plan on taking more classes with her soon.Shes AMAZING!

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: HIST155
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Nice lady. Very rigid grader though, no room for messing up! She is very passionate about this subject and knows it well. Assignments are weekly and consist of reading a chapter and discussion in class. lots of in-class group work and going up to the board. Tests are all take home and have to be done very thoroughly.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: LATAM101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

A lot of reading so if u don't like to read DO NOT TAKE HER. Nevertheless she is a good professor, her tests are not hard at all and even if u don't do the readings u can have an idea what was it about since she would go over it in class. in other words, she okay,so there is nothing to be afair of exept for the readings ^_^.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: LATAM2
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

she was very interesting and had an indepth analysis of her subject area. she can be very helpful when u ask her to be. great teacher

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: LATAM101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

this class is very hard and very demanding. if you are looking for an easy A, look elsewhere. there are a lot of assignments, and the reading is very neccessary. she grills you every class. the papers are graded harshly, there are a lot of projects and assignments. i got A's in all of my 4 other classes. this one i got a B and put in the most work.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: LATAMG210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Really awesome teacher, very nice and helpful. Papers are very specific and she is a bit of a tough grader. I would definitely reccomend her as a teacher though, she is great.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: LATAMG210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She is very passionate about the subject, but I found the class not helpful / interesting at all. Discussion was teacher-led and it was overall boring: boring "discussion", boring texts, boring assignments.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: POPCULTURE
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

prof blum pulls together interesting topics and teaches new analytical concepts. i like how she focuses on issues of race and class. she is a little crazy with the handouts and has VERY SPECIFIC regulations for her papers, which left little room to really dive in to your point. unfortunately, class discussion is almost entirely teacher-led.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: HISTL1551
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

the course is interesting, reading intensive, blum is intellegent, dedicated, and friendly. she is clearly is passionate about history and latin america. a great look into colonialism, and the rich history of the americas.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: LATAM101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The latin american history class Blum taught was very insightful, the class was intense with reading and class work, but i felt that it was important to the vital frame work to the course.