The course was introductory but definitely content heavy. You do have to memorize a lot of Spanish verb conjugations, vocabulary and grammar. But personally I found them easier to study and liked this course so much. If you know other romance language like French, Italian, Portuguese etc. you will have advantages for learning Spanish. But this is a language that requires a lot of efforts and you do have to commit a huge amount of time to study the language. So definitely participate a lot in each lecture! I also want to mention that this course is way much interactive and communicative than other language course such as "University French I" because that helps you to practice the language and you also get opportunity to be participated in one week study trip to Cuba for cultural engagement...read more

The content was from the most easist then getting harder gradually. But if you go to your instructor's office hour or any Spanish tutoring hours that will definitely help a lot! A lot of assessments though, again this is a language course so it has to complete all of these assessments. I don't recommend you to skip for any quizzes or tests or written evaluation because they will not make any make-up assessments and will add these missed to the next assessment unless you have to. This course also helps you build a solid foundation for further studying in Spanish languages if you are really motivated and want to continue studying Spanish.

The professor is very knowledgeable and nice as an instructor. He might be slightly pickier but you get to learn what mistakes you have made for learning Spanish. He is passionated about teaching Spanish to students and is also willing to help you if you have question so just make sure you go to his office hour a lot. I would say the final exam had a lot of compositions and it was for entire 3 hours so my hands.