Karen Vasquez - American River College

Professor: Karen Vasquez
Department: Speech Communication
College: American River College
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: SPCH301
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Professor Vasquez is very straight forward. There is no homework, only the 4 main speeches you have to do and like 2 minor assignments. The ending has felt quite crammed with the last 2 speeches. She can be understanding and has a good sense of humor. Just follow the outline and you will do fine! Any Public Speaking class will be tough in some way
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: SPCH301
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Gives off major "let me talk to your manager" vibes. If you wanna hate your life for a semester Mrs. Vasquez will surely help you with that goal. Mean woman, talks down to the class, and is often unprepared for her own lectures. If you are actually interested in improving and learning I would look elsewhere.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH301
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
One Great Teacher!!! 8 week online course that I dreaded taking. She is clear about what she expects from you. It is completely doable with additional courses. Participation matters. Her motto: Give me a little bit of answer I give you a little bit of grade. This class was awesome! so glad I faced my fear of speech class! She rocks!!
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: SPECH301
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I do not recommend this teacher! Rude, disrespectful and like to threaten you with passing her class or not! Grading system sucks and she has too many rules! You can participate and turn in all homework on time miss one speech and fail the class! No lead way but she wants lead ways when she miss class!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: SPCH301
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
First off, her syllabus only says for the final section "there will be a final" then drops a 10 plus page essay as the final. She is so disrespectful and doesn't care that students take multiple classes. Please do not take her. She is so unorganized and rude.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: SPCH301
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
8 wk class. This professor wants you to succeed. Her expectations are straight forward and she will provide feedback. Don't expect any leeway, she's strict but that provides structure. Must do homework, not difficult (txtbk ?s). participate in class, it's better that way. Take this professor, she teaches you. Won't burn you out.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH301
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
i took 8 week, camera! participate!!! do homework!! great prof. cares about studs. can't miss speech. As long as you try and put in effort, you'll do fine. prof. gives all needed info, will help, gives good feedback. enjoyable class. nervousness not issue. Laid back prof. no reading speeches.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: SPECH301
  • Grade Received: B-
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I liked her at first but then something changed. She started cramming speeches together back to back with little time to prepare. She requires outlines but I think that this actually helps the student. The final speech is worth more than your final which I think is a little unfair. She is not very understanding and doesn't have a clear syllabus.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: SPCH301
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
BE AWARE! I AM NOT JOKING. She was the worse professor I have ever had in my entire life. She is so disrespectful and selfish. I never and ever recommend her classes to anyone. She creates so many self-law into the class. All the time she acts like a big boss. Always she warns students and tries to force students to keep their cameras on.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: SPECH301
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I would not recommend her to anyone. She tries her best to take some points off of your grade very tough on grading.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH301
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Honestly, I love this class. She's super strict with attendance and doing your speeches on time and you NEED to use her outlines for all speeches and forms but that kind of just makes things easier for you. The midterm is also EASY if you read up on the sections of the textbook and review lecture notes that she clearly outlines in the study guide.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH301
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I took her for Summer 4 week course and we had a speech every week and it was not so easy, but I still managed to do my speeches and pass this class with an A. Just make sure that you follow her directions for outline and you will be good.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH301
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: No
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
She grades really harsh and feedback is not helpful. Completely irrelevant at times. There are some really long assignments that I felt did not add to my knowledge or ability to being a better speaker. Would not recommend.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH301
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Very understanding and caring, not to much homework besides preparing for speeches. She creates a very safe environment for presenting.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH331
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
My one tiff about this prof is that she doesn't give feedback after presentations. So we never know how to do better. Rarely gives paper back. But she is not too terrible a professor. The class is enjoyable at least, but I'd say it's thanks to my classmates. 2 projects (volunteering & problem/solution). READ - sometimes gives quizzes on chapters.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: SPCH101
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Read the book, her lectures won't help you pass the test as she often starts sharing personal anecdotes and doesn't cover much material that will be in the test. She is a very tough grader on the speech demonstrations you will be making, follow the examples she gives you to the letter and make sure to prepare and practice multiple times.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH301
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
If youre nervous about speech, I highly recommend her. Her 4 week class was easy. Light reading. Study guide similar to test. Notes arent allowed but visual aids help a lot. She cares about your grade and not a tough grader at all on speeches. She keeps class interesting. She makes you feel comfortable before a speech by engaging in conversation
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH301
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Prof Vasquez isn't a tough professor and makes speech bearable and passable. Definitely recommend.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH301
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
She is very caring of your grade. She isnt that hard, I took the fast track class and it was really easy to follow.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: SPEECH301
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Who wants to take speech? Not many... But if you have to take it (my sympathies), take it from her. You may think a speech without notes is impossible, but amazingly it isn't! She made class fun and interesting, and she really wants you to succeed. I thought her grading of speeches was rough, but I'm not that great at public speaking. Have fun!
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