Reviews of professor Faisal Shaheen

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
i HATE this man.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The heaviest class of my academic career. 3-6 readings a week of around 50+ pages. Lectures are only a summary of the readings. An 8,000 word midterm and 10,000 word final exam (I wish I was joking). Essay lacks clear grading criteria. Hardly responds to emails. He posts old lectures and doesn't change dates/content. Boring lectures. AVOID!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures are recorded audio atop Powerpoint slides. All of his materials, including recordings, are heavy on academic language and are unnecessarily verbose. Readings are generally dry academic papers, albeit free. Tests/assignments are extremely heavy in terms of wordcount + criterion. Midterm was around 6000 words. Though, he is a nice prof.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's a nice person and encourages discussion but I've found his teaching lack lustre. Lots of readings and lectures just recap readings, no summarizing or tying together of information and you're left scrambling trying to understand the significance of complex academic papers with no context. Marking seems tough with no explanation or feedback.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His ratings imo are a bit harsh. He's down to earth and is passionate about what he teaches. He can be a bit of a tough marker but is also very fair and chill. My one complaint is that he isn't always clear in terms of what he wants from papers. Might be best to email him or talk to him outside of class because the syllabus does not explain enough.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Expects you to write a 6000 word midterm in 4 days. WTAF.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His assignments are ridiculously long with very short time frames (6500+ word midterm, confusing questions, and 4 days to do it). He speaks at a very high level and does not do Zoom lectures, just PowerPoint with audio. Readings are heavy and hard to understand. He's a nice guy, just a difficult prof. I would not recommend

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Never again with Faisal. Listen to the people saying he gives 6000 word exams in a week. I should have listened, got myself screwed over spending 90% of finals on his class. This prof does not know what a reasonable assignment is, and loves to make you drop everything to focus on him.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is nice but he has very unreasonable exams. His final exam is ~6000 words and double the length of all my other exams COMBINED. "Lectures" were basic powerpoints with audio files, the readings were long and dull, and the final assignment's criteria was very confusing: Do not take his classes unless you are ready to drown in reading and writing.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Amazing Professor, very compassionate and if you follow his instructions you will do well in the course.