Margarita Azmitia - University of California Santa Cruz

Professor: Margarita Azmitia

Department: Psychology

College: University of California Santa Cruz

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: PYS102
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Avoid taking a class with Margarita if you can. She goes on tangents about her kids and other redundant, unrelated topics. Her lectures lacked inspiration and tended to be dumbed down; didnt provide much info Id never heard before. Monitored every single step of our group projects, which made a lot of unnecessray busy work. Hated this class.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ADDEVPSYC102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She was so disorganized, I hated it. She posted 3 or 4 syllabus with different information and due dates online, she kind of went off topic a lot in lectures, and she doesn't post her slides. Her tests were based on stuff she's saying in lecture, but she doesnt put it in the slide. multiple test questions were also really redundant and too specific

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ADDEVPSYC102
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Great professor! She lectures kind of fast and doesn't post slides online so going to class is a must. Exams are okay, though multiple choice can be a little tricky and some are based on the textbook that's not covered in class. Other than that, she's a sweet lady and always willing to help if something isn't clear. Interesting topic as well!

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PSYC10
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Margarita was an amazing professor. I really appreciated her desire to see all her students succeed. She has a great life story and really wants to connect with students and is receptive to feedback. She clearly loves dev. psych and her children. I'm not that interested in dev psych but she made the class fun and engaging.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: PSYC193
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I got an internship at a senior nursing house, and Margarita is the only professor at UCSC teaches psychology of ageing so i had her as director. However! Margarita had not done any research in geriatric psychology nor was educated in that discipline. She does not care about your internship, bad at emailing. Very cold attitude. Bad Choice! Avoid!

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: PSYCH103
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Margarita's lectures can get side tracked, no doubt, but she's an extremely kind person, happy to help, and will explain if you /ask/! She doesn't post grades: You have to email if you want a grade check. Also, if she asks for 2 examples on a test, and you give 5, but the extra ones are wrong, she /will/ mark you down - save yourself and do 2.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ADDEVPSYC102
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Azmitia's lectures can be sloppy. She doesn't post the lecture slides online so going to lecture and taking notes is essential, but she loses track of time and ends up speeding through the lectures thus affecting us students terribly since the information on lecture slides are on the exams. On the bright side she is clear and grading is alright.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: PSYCH102
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

okay a few things. She's really clear in lecture. Her slides are based off the book. Only problem is that her tests are also not completely representative of the book. She doesn't post slides and she only held one office hour a week. She literally reads off the slides but the slides are so long it's hard to listen while writing down EVERYTHING.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PSYC10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I took PSYC 10, PSYC 102, and PSYC 103. She is a really nice professor and is really passionate about what she teaches. She incorporates youtube clips and includes stories that bring the ideas and theories we discuss to real life. Her tests are hard, but only if you don't do the readings. It's definitely possible to get a B, with average effort.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: PSYC119T
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

The subject matter was interesting but she was very confusing on what she wanted out of us. For the entire quarter no one really knew what their grade was. She means well but not my favorite.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PSYCH10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Not easy to say the least. Very dry lectures, not really motivating to learn, and tests are hard.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: PSYCH102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

lecture, lecture, lecture, midterm, lecture, lecture, lecture, midterm, lecture, paper, lecture, lecture, final. That's all.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PSYC10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Her lectures were useless. Terrible lecturer. Had to teach myself everything from the book. Unwilling to listen to students if TA's have screwed something up. TA lost emails of mine and therefore received assignments late as well as never gave feedback for final paper. Took TA's side without consulting thread of emails as evidence.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: PSYC10
• 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:

She's a pretty nice prof, but her lectures were useless and the multiple choice tests were tricky. Section was mandatory even though it didn't help me at all.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PSYC103
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very good at trying to help you. Handwriting is awful and difficult to read, might as well just go to her office hours. Does tend to tangent from subject to subject. Never read any of the books she assigned, however I did read the online articles.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: PSYCH10
• 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:

I came on here before taking this class and read a lot of bad reviews, but I really love Margarita. Her tests are a little hard because they're conceptual and there's a lot of reading (you HAVE to do the reading to get a decent grade), but she's an overall wonderful teacher and is always willing to listen to you and help out.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PSYCH10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

She does seem to go off topic in lectures but you must go to lectures to get the information and sometimes they're enjoyable. The tests are very reasonable and she is willing to hear you out about points you missed on tests. It's a fair class she definitely knows what she's talking about. Textbook is highly required and very helpful!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ADOL1111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I took her adolescent development class. I found that she was disorganized as far as going off topic during lectures. She did not seem excited to be teaching the course at all.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: PSYCH10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

she goes off topic a lot. didnt really learn much.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: PSYCH10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Margarita is one of the most disorganized teachers I have ever had. She had good intentions with her lectures, but she would so often get off topic. I went to talk with her during office hours about my exams, and she was very impatient and didnt listen to what I had to say. I do not recommend taking a class with her.