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I think a few of these reviews are overly harsh. I did not find Professor Faier condescending, and thought she did her best to make relevant everyone's life experiences and opinions. She cares a lot about her students--and also expects a lot out of them. In UCLA classrooms professors SHOULD have high expectations of their students. She's a tough but consistent (and fair) grader; she takes improvement into account when submitting final grades. Meeting her in office hours is welcome, pleasant and helpful. She even put together outside study groups for students seeking help with Geog M146. She held these groups on her own time. Her exams are no-nonsense, straightforward, take home essay format.

I really enjoyed my classes with Faier. I think she's figuring herself out as a professor--that she's actively trying to improve in it. She's scatterbrained and organized at the same time, which is fun to be around. I think her themes are interesting and applicable, that her readings are interesting and related, and that her lectures fly by. I'd recommend her to anyone interested in gender studies/anthro/cultural geography. I would not recommend her for an easy, no-work A.

Professor Faier, is more than willing to work with her students, her exams involve a lot of writing and thought but she is concerned about student learning and only creates her exams this way to force you to think. Her lectures are very well laid out and easy to follow. Sometimes she goes super fast but if you ask her to go back over the last slide before moving on she will!

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For those who are good at critical thinking take this class. If you enjoy reading hundreds of pages take this class. If none of the stated above is your strenghts do not take this class.

Overall a pretty easy GE. There is a LOT of reading, and you do need to read at least some of it, but if you pay attention in discussion you can probably get by just skimming or reading the summary passages at the end of each work. Midterm and final is a lot of writing, but it seems to be graded pretty easily.

With much hesitation from these reviews, I decided to take Geo 3, and I must say I'm very glad I did.

This class had some extremely interesting material and, more so than any other class, taught me to look at things from other people's points of view (for example, how a blind person can experience a museum).

I found Lieba to be an excellent lecturer and very concerned about her students and today's environmental issues. The class itself had a lot of reading, but since I only needed the GE credit I took it P/NP and did essentially no work besides the one page paper every other week.

I'm pretty sure she re-designed the class, because no one had to do a 10-page paper like some other reviewer said.

My one complaint, however, would be the TAs and pretty pointless sections we had to go to since they were mandatory for the grade.

All in all, I highly recommend this class if you want to learn about different cultures (this geography class isn't about maps and cartography at all) and environmental injustices happening in the world.

TAKE THIS CLASS. It's very informative and an easy A if you do the readings. Faier may seem intimidating at first but she is very receptive to student needs and concern. The content of this course was very unique and I feel like it really opened up my perspective on a lot of things. If you can get HEATHER AGNEW to be your TA. She is awesome.

This hands down the most informative class taken at UCLA.

Pros:

It explored so many interesting topics like how organic food became popular, and how that reasoning applies to stuff like gated communities and bottled water.

This class explores the meaning of space and place, and allows us students to have a taste of different experiences through the various readings. While they may not be super interesting, the ideas that they entail are.

Cons:

Having said that, this class is fairly content heavy. you'll be given review sheets with words that you'll need to know. and that fills a whole page.

Professor Faier's powerpoints are very summarized, so you'll have trouble deciphering what it is saying unless you took some notes on what she said in class.