# JOSE VILLAGRAN — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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### name

JOSE VILLAGRAN

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### last observed at

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### ratings

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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    "comment": "I really liked this professor, he is very passionate ab teaching. However, I took this class to learn more about chicla and I felt out of place because Professor had had students in this class in previous ones, and he made jokes and comments a lot, specifically with those students. I wish the class was more welcoming tbh.",
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    "comment": "Great professor, you can tell he is really passionate about what he teaches and wants his students to do well. Very engaging lectures, Villagran actually makes an effort to connect with his students and cares about their success. Course content is already interesting but Villagran is able to make it engaging.",
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    "comment": "An actual king. Super funny and course content is easy to digest. You can tell he's super passionate about the subject and there were multiple times where I cried after class because I was moved. I already knew I wanted to get the certificate in chican@/latin@ studies but after taking his class I want it so much more.",
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    "comment": "prof villagran is clearly very educated on this topic (as he should be), but this being said he is VERY cocky. there were many times when I emailed him thruout the semester and he either 1. didn't respond or 2. responded in a stand-offish way. he is quite ridiculous, but the class isn't too hard",
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