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Michael Faulkender BUFN610 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/07/2024	Michael's class was by far one of the more engaging courses I have taken at Smith. He often sets aside class time to allow students to discuss/ask questions about current economic/political events. The midterm and final were difficult, but not unfair. He curves them in the end, so it is not horrible.
Michael Faulkender BUFN610 Expecting a B Anonymous 01/12/2023	This class consists of weekly homework's, case studies, a presentation, midterm, and a final. The homework is through an online service and is rather straightforward but can take awhile. There are four case studies they are all straightforward for the most part as well but definitely go to office hours. The midterm is take-home and similar to the practice midterm it takes awhile to do but you can get a good grade on it. The final is the hardest part of the class since its 3 hours and in-person however, it is open note. Mike overall does a good job teaching the material just be expected to spend a decent amount of time on the class each week and study a lot for the final it will make your life easier.
Michael Faulkender BUFN610 Expecting an A obylla 01/03/2023	You can tell he thinks highly of himself, and loves the sound of his own voice, but it doesn’t reach the level of "arrogance". He is helpful, friendly, and approachable. He explains the concepts really well, and delivers the lecture in a way where its hard not to pay attention. He grades fairly, open to requests of re-grading, replies really fast to emails. His assignments are hard and his slides are messy. You need to write notes and pay attention to class.
Liu Yang BUFN610 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/05/2022	I love her so much since you will learn a lot in class but I have to admit that her class makes me stressed out. We had case for each week as group project and each of them took so many hours. Even though she explains everything clearly in class, most of us did so bad in final that we believed we would need to retake. She will assign letter grade based on the performance of the whole class so that even though I did terrible in final, I still get an A at the end.

Michael Faulkender
BUFN610

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/07/2024

Michael's class was by far one of the more engaging courses I have taken at Smith. He often sets aside class time to allow students to discuss/ask questions about current economic/political events. The midterm and final were difficult, but not unfair. He curves them in the end, so it is not horrible.

Michael Faulkender
BUFN610

Expecting a B
Anonymous
01/12/2023

This class consists of weekly homework's, case studies, a presentation, midterm, and a final. The homework is through an online service and is rather straightforward but can take awhile. There are four case studies they are all straightforward for the most part as well but definitely go to office hours. The midterm is take-home and similar to the practice midterm it takes awhile to do but you can get a good grade on it. The final is the hardest part of the class since its 3 hours and in-person however, it is open note. Mike overall does a good job teaching the material just be expected to spend a decent amount of time on the class each week and study a lot for the final it will make your life easier.

Michael Faulkender
BUFN610

Expecting an A
obylla
01/03/2023

You can tell he thinks highly of himself, and loves the sound of his own voice, but it doesn’t reach the level of "arrogance". He is helpful, friendly, and approachable. He explains the concepts really well, and delivers the lecture in a way where its hard not to pay attention. He grades fairly, open to requests of re-grading, replies really fast to emails. His assignments are hard and his slides are messy. You need to write notes and pay attention to class.

Liu Yang
BUFN610

Expecting an A
Anonymous
10/05/2022

I love her so much since you will learn a lot in class but I have to admit that her class makes me stressed out. We had case for each week as group project and each of them took so many hours. Even though she explains everything clearly in class, most of us did so bad in final that we believed we would need to retake. She will assign letter grade based on the performance of the whole class so that even though I did terrible in final, I still get an A at the end.

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