Quality 2/5Difficulty 4/5
class was not at all organized and felt like busy work. lots of reading and writing and talking about works.Rate My Professors ↗
Current instructor
Sarli Mercado
What students say
Original student reviews · all captured dates
Quality 2/5Difficulty 3/5
Prof. Mercado is nice and caring. Though Canvas is very unorganized, homework varies significantly each night, and you get homework after every class. Participation grade in class, lots of group work. Some nights we had 3 hours of homework and you could not really plan your week well and it was very unclear. Avoid if those things bother you.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
Sarli is a very empathetic professor who clearly cares a lot about each of her individual students and is very understanding in terms of deadlines and attendance as long as communication is established. After having taken Spanish311 with Sarli I genuinely feel that my abilities to write in Spanish have noticeably improved.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 4/5Difficulty 3/5
Sarli is very kind and a great person but a disorganized professor. Deadlines were always shifted or changed, Canvas was a mess, and communication outside of class was a bit rough. I learned a lot listening to her Spanish but was a bit stressed during the semester with the lack of clarity on assignments. Sarli is lovely but grading took weeks.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 3/5Difficulty 3/5
She is a super nice person, but VERY disorganized. Every week expectations and deadlines were changed. I was always confused on what was due, and it was never clear on the grading expectations/what we had to do for our homework. She is very nice, definitely cares, but is completely unorganized and very unclear on everything regarding the class.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
I loved having Sarli for Spanish 311! She truly cares about her students and makes class engaging for a topic that would typically be kind of boring. I would really recommend taking one of her classes!Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with Sarli Mercado
SPANISH 325
Advanced Conversation
3 creditsAdvanced Conversation focuses on practicing and improving conversational Spanish while forming and presenting opinions on cultural and social issues affecting Latin America and the US.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.88 GPA, 91.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.54 GPA, 82.6% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=50 letter grades).
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026SPANISH AMERICAN CIVILIZATION covers the cultural evolution of Spanish America from pre-Hispanic times to the present, conducted entirely in Spanish.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Sarli Mercado
Sarli Mercado assigned substantial reading homework, which was essential because class sessions focused entirely on discussing those texts. A student noted that she was a very deep professor who required thorough analysis of Spanish literature.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2023–Spring 2025 · limited sampleRecorded teaching history
Distinct courses recorded per term
Explore courses taught by this instructor →Browse recorded courses
| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2027 | SPANISH 325 | Advanced Conversation |
| Spring 2027 | SPANISH 363 | Spanish American Civilization |
| Fall 2026 | SPANISH 325 | Advanced Conversation |
| Fall 2026 | SPANISH 468 | Topics in Hispanic Culture |
Teaching history may be incomplete. Course pages contain course-specific feedback and citations.
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