Alan West-Duran - Northeastern University

Professor: Alan West-Duran

Department: TBD

College: Northeastern University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CLTR1120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

West-Duran is really enthusiastic about the course material, but very poorly organized and unclear about what info is important. Quizzes focus on extremely minute details from the lectures. We spend 90% of the class looking at pictures of artwork and I don't understand why this is a required class for language minors.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CLTR1120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

One of the worst professors I have had. He is very passionate about the material, but his lectures and quizzes are confusing and the class has no structure so you have to put in a lot of work studying because he's so unclear about what you need to know.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CLTR1111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This Professor is awful. He is unclear about assignments, and does not care about students. Lectures are terribly boring.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CLTR1120
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He's not a bad professor and he's actually a pretty nice guy but towards the middle of the semester his lectures got so uninteresting. Not super boring but they never caught my attention enough to not half zone out, which was fine because he always put the slides on Blackboard and sent out lists of terms to study. Easy A tho, I would def take again

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CLTR2001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Boring class. Slept through most classes, but would always feel bad because he is passionate about films. Randomly took it as an elective and it is a lot more work than one would think, movies can be tricky to understand, but as long you you do the discussion questions and take notes of what he says in class the tests are easy. Pretty easy grader

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CLTR1505
• 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:

He might be a real nice man, but he doesn't know how to teach. Most classes he would just read from the book and give his opinion on the subject without us really saying anything. Laughs a lot at his own jokes and is very inconsistent. Also, he ended up removing entire sections of the syllabus because he was not organized and rambled on too much.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CLTR1111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

long story short its not too hard to get by but its a pain in the butt and you'll smack yourself for taking this halfway through the semester

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: LITR1260
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I had this professor for Caribbean Literature and Culture. He's a very nice guy and it's obvious he's very passionate about what he's teaching in class. His quizzes can be very hard; I had to study a lot more for this class than for some of my required classes. But he loves what he does and it's a joy to be in class. Although sometimes its boring.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: LNS170
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

OMG. this is the worst class ever. nobody deserves this. His classes are good for taking a nap or doing homework for other classes. keeps laughing at his own jokes and plays weird music.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: LNS240
• 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:

What a nice guy! He is very knowledgeable and it's clear that he loves the material. The midterm, final, and all of the quizzes are taken pretty much from the discussion questions, so make sure you prepare them well. Overall a good class, although it was a bit more work than I had expected from an elective...

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: LNSU170
• 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:

True, he does sometimes converse in Spanish...class is boring and generally unhelpful...Midterm was a bear...completely caught me off guard...

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: LNS650
• 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:

Loved him and this class. Was freaking out in the beginning because it is alllll Spanish, but I survived. It was hard, but he is pretty lenient on the grading because he knows the class is difficult. If you're having trouble go to him and he'll help you. He gets real carried away sometimes because he loves his stuf, but its okay you'll like it too.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CARIBLIT
• 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:

i'm was the least divearse person in a class of carib lit and i still did fine. hes interesting but usually doesn't include what he rants about in class on the test.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: LATINFILMS
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

West-Duran is a good man. had no idea, only signed up for the class cuz m to f ratio was 1:10. The man is passionate about his work but can sometimes get carried away with topics. Some of the movies he picks are boring as**** so roll one up and bring your ipod.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: LNSU170
• 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:

Sometimes spoke in spanish in class, forgetting that some of the class didn't speak spanish. was funny and passionate about what he was teaching us. expected us to read a lot, but if you like to read it is no problem.

Rating # 16

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

he is very unorganized, forgetful and flighty. He manages class time poorly and uses to time to go off on irrelevant rants. Essays and exams have pretty much nothing to do with what he teaches in class. Good class if you are self-motivated to study because the books are very interesting.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: LNS650
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

too much on the syllabus, including a 12 page paper, two 15 page papers, and a whole garcia marquez novel to be read in two weeks. very knowledgeable, loves sor juana-but got a little too excited about her. swears in class. movie on martin fierro = brutal

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: LNSU650
• 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:

i liked that he graded for content and not for grammar; but it didn't help my spanish much. amazing class if you enjoy poetry (sor juana). difficult if you haven't read a lot in spanish. he helps if you come to him.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: LNSU650
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Most definitely the worst professor I have ever had. When he spoke, I felt like he was just trying to show us how much he knew. Grades were unclear, assignments were so vague! They RARELY had anything to do with what we did in class.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: LNSU240
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

This prof. is unorganized, as no other.His essay are incredibly vague and often unrelated enough to make you want to poke someone in the eye.He discusses things he knows and not, necessarily, anything helpful during class The only good thing were films.