Introduction to Latinos in US History taught by Professor María Cristina García reignited my passion for learning when I felt like I was in an academic slump. The class was taught in a comprehensive and digestible way to the point where I never felt like I constantly needed to jot down information because I was absorbing all of the information. Too often, Latina/o/e history in the US is brushed past in our K-12 education; having Professor Garcia teach about every group of Latin America in great detail through lectures on migration, climate change, and discrimination in the US created a well-rounded course. This class was also presented almost like a story hour in which every lecture took me out of the classroom environment and allowed me to imagine the scenery our professor would describe. While it had a large class size, on the last day, the professor asked us what we wanted to know about the history of Latinos in the United States or what she believed would happen in the future within the community. It was refreshing to hear people's genuine interest in the history during this course and made me feel represented as a Latina student.

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