Dorian Dorado - University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

Professor: Dorian Dorado
Department: Languages
College: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: SPA202
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dorian is honestly the funniest professor I've ever had. He was so willing to help me succeed and loved teaching. He is constantly making his class work around his students. Honestly, he's just all around fantastic. Can be a little disorganized, but everything gets done and done well. He's truly fantastic
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: SPA306
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He's very disorganized and super unclear. Will forget about the homework he assigns, makes up projects on the spot. Didn't follow the syllabus. Nice enough, but not a great professor. Be prepared to learn on your own. Class is a waste of time, but he takes attendance.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: SPA304
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dorian has good intentions, but isn't clear. I didn't feel prepared for my exams despite a reasonable amount of studying. After taking the course, I can't tell you one specific thing I learned that was new. He's very odd in his teaching style, but if you have to take him, it's not the end of the world.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: SPA305
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class wasn't as hard as I expected. We read some short stories, poems, part of a play, and finally a short novel. He likes to randomly call on people in class, so make sure you are paying attention. His lectures were boring, and were pretty much just based on what he thought of the stories. Not a bad class, but not the best either.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: SPA304
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dorian is a fabulous professor. You actually have to care about what you are learning to do well in the class, but should anyway. He encourages students to discuss their opinions about real world issues in class, which makes it practical and engaging. The tests are easy and there is minimal homework.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: SPA421
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dorian Dorado is one of the worst professors I have ever come across in my 4 years of college. He is not helpful, unclear, unprepared and insanely rude. Avoid taking him at all costs, and if you must take it to complete your spanish major, make sure to suck up more than you study.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: SPA303
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Strongly discourages emailing him with questions.. didn't show up first day of class haha.. we spent half the semester working on the present tense and the other half on pret vs. imp....
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: SPA303
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He loves what he does and is committed to helping his students. Though he can be scatter-brained at times, he has never lost a paper. He works through answers you don't get and puts on review sessions and practices for exams and tests. There are only 4 major writing assignments and moderate HW. The class overall was easy and enjoyable.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: SPA303
  • 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:
Honestly, He is probably the WORST spanish professor i've ever had. DO NOT take him if you have other options. He is soo unorganized and very unclear in his expectations and basically expects us to be fluent in spanish
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: SPA315
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
It's true, he is very unorganized but he really cares about his students and is pretty funny. Do daily readings but you never turn anything in. Vocab. quizzes are pretty simple. One large paper and oral presentation and a couple tests. It is a sort of "wing it" class but I still learned a lot and thought it was quite helpful.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: SPA326
  • 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:
Dorado has entirely good intentions but his class is completely unorganized. He ended up cancelling this once a week class every week for a month. His expectations are unclear. I feel that I just have to "wing" this class entirely. He is a great guy, just not the best professor.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: SPA305
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dorian is a very nice prof who genuinely cares about his students both personally and academically. However, his expectations for the class in general and for individual assignments were VERY unclear and change from day to day. I often found myself doing lots of work for each class per his request and then the work never was graded or referred to.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: SPA303
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He was kind of hard to understand when he would make us do in class activities. He was a pretty easy grader. I didn't really study that often and still did pretty good on tests. I got confused in class sometimes when he'd start talking about random things, but overall I'd say it was a pretty easy class. I'd take him again.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: SPA326
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I had Dorian for a previous class and maybe did not give him the best rating. I think Dorado is a great professor and recommend him every time! He really cares about his students and what initially may have come across as creepy has become very endearing and funny. Dorian is a great guy and an awesome professor!
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: SPA303
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dorian really means well and has a great sense of humor. Although he does seem disorganized at times, he really cares about his students and helping them. This class is VERY easy, I do not study and often do not read but do well on assignments. I liked him a lot.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: SPA326
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Probably one of the most unclear professors I have ever had. It seems as though he wants to be there even less than us, but then also makes the class stupid and difficult. Way too much work for a 1-credit Current Events class!
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: SPA315
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class is pointless. A complete waste of my time. He cancelled 60% of the classes and finally handed a sylabus out after 6 weeks of the class had already passed. The quizes are easy but the class is a complete joke! I recommend not taking this class!!!
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: SPA303
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is always joking around, and he tries to be fun. There is no homework, there are 2 compositions, and he grades tough. The tests are really really hard, and studying doesn't seem to help, because even though he gives you a review, it doesn't seem to help. He is nice, but he discourages office hours.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: SPA303
  • 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:
Don't take him. His tests are difficult and he doesn't teach very well. I guess the only reason I kind of like him as a profesor is that he likes to joke around, but he's a tough profesor.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: SPA303
  • 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:
He is a nice guy but tends to be extremely goofy. Once he gets to a point he can explain it pretty well but he can be easily distracted, it also takes him awhile to get work back. I did learn but did a lot of the teaching myself.
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