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I have to agree with the student's previous post on the professor because though I understand that Faier wants her students to engage in class discussion and really gain from this course, I did feel at times she didn't agree with students' opinions and felt as if she was being condescending. I disliked that she wasn't very available to her students besides talking to them during her office hours. She will also tell the class beforehand that it takes her a while to reply to e-mails because of carpool tunnel.

Faier however, is a very knowledgeable professor and will often times bring up during class about her research that she did in the Philippines and how hard she worked on improving her writing to be able to write her book. It's all interesting and I am sure she's proud of it but it was unnecessary to bring up because I've had other professors do the same type of work but they were more humble than she was.

Faier is very precise on what she expects from her students. I do like the fact that she is concerned about students' writing and she emphasizes that we should improve. However, I have to say that in courses like this ideas and opinions should be valued over more because sometimes I felt that no matter how great the writing or ideas were she wasn't completely satisfied.

I feel that in order to obtain an A in this class you really have to participate and agree with what she says otherwise she imposes her own arguments on you.

Overall though the professor is understanding and all about students, in my opinion she is hard grader and probably the hardest of all my Women Studies courses.