# Hernando Rojas — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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### name

Hernando Rojas

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    "comment": "Professor Rojas was great! I enjoyed the content and learned so much about bias in media. There's only 2 essays, a midterm, and a final but just as long as you know what you understand the content in the lectures, you will be fine",
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    "comment": "Professor Rojas is very passionate about what he teaches and connects easily with his students. He utilizes his slides a lot, showing pictures, bullet points, but also actively engaging with the students. He has multiple guest lectures from all over. Be prepared to learn about how media systems work, write essays, and give speeches in discussions.",
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    "comment": "Good professor and interesting content but some of it felt repetitive. IMO too many guest lectures that weren't rly on the midterm and final that I skipped and still did good. Lowks boring lectucturer",
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    "comment": "Very educated and understandable. Learned a lot in his lectures and would definitely recommend him to other journalism students.",
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