ARABIC 102A
Intermediate Standard Arabic
Description: Lecture, four hours. Enforced requisite: course 1C or 8. Course 102A is requisite to 102B, which is requisite to 102C. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Arabic to qualify for more advanced courses. Intermediate formal Arabic, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2022 - Class would be a lot better if it was not on zoom -- it is very hard to learn spoken Arabic on zoom! She is a caring and cheerful person and is always available to help outside of class. In-class work can be disorganized and unhelpful sometimes, but this is mostly because it is on zoom. Would recommend, but only if you are highly interested in putting in the work outside of class time.
Fall 2022 - Class would be a lot better if it was not on zoom -- it is very hard to learn spoken Arabic on zoom! She is a caring and cheerful person and is always available to help outside of class. In-class work can be disorganized and unhelpful sometimes, but this is mostly because it is on zoom. Would recommend, but only if you are highly interested in putting in the work outside of class time.
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Fall 2023 - I have taken Abeer Hamza for over a year and this is my full and final review of her as a Professor: She’s literally racist; for a project once, she said my interview of a Heritage speaker didn’t count because I didn’t interview an ‘actual Arab.’ Mind you, the person I had chose to interview was a Pakistani who was born and lived in the U.A.E all her life and spoke Arabic fluently. She takes forever to respond to her emails. A professor who cares to respond and communicate with her students makes a world of difference in the classroom, and Hamza just doesn’t do that. She gives an insane amount of homework as if it’s a high school class. Her inconsistency with her advice and feedback on the homework doesn’t make it any easier. For example, she’ll let you go weeks doing the homework a certain way, until she finally decides she wants you to do it another way. She once gave us the whole day to submit a test and we had two attempts….GREAT! But then for the second test she gave us only an hour to finish and expected us to take it twice as well. In short, she’s lazy and inconsistent with her grading. She is not lenient with attendance. Your dad could be dying, and she won’t care. She’ll mark you for being absent. This is the laziest Professor I have come across in my entire academic career. She refuses to have classes in-person even though 95% of the class will ask her. Doesn’t grade fairly or consistently, and can’t even communicate to you regularly via email. She isn’t fit for teaching. Abeer Hamza has been a huge headache for the year that I’ve taken her. Myself and several other classmates literally have had emotional breakdowns to each other. So if you take Hamza, and you’re not an Arab that speaks fluent fusha, understand that you’re in for a ride.
Fall 2023 - I have taken Abeer Hamza for over a year and this is my full and final review of her as a Professor: She’s literally racist; for a project once, she said my interview of a Heritage speaker didn’t count because I didn’t interview an ‘actual Arab.’ Mind you, the person I had chose to interview was a Pakistani who was born and lived in the U.A.E all her life and spoke Arabic fluently. She takes forever to respond to her emails. A professor who cares to respond and communicate with her students makes a world of difference in the classroom, and Hamza just doesn’t do that. She gives an insane amount of homework as if it’s a high school class. Her inconsistency with her advice and feedback on the homework doesn’t make it any easier. For example, she’ll let you go weeks doing the homework a certain way, until she finally decides she wants you to do it another way. She once gave us the whole day to submit a test and we had two attempts….GREAT! But then for the second test she gave us only an hour to finish and expected us to take it twice as well. In short, she’s lazy and inconsistent with her grading. She is not lenient with attendance. Your dad could be dying, and she won’t care. She’ll mark you for being absent. This is the laziest Professor I have come across in my entire academic career. She refuses to have classes in-person even though 95% of the class will ask her. Doesn’t grade fairly or consistently, and can’t even communicate to you regularly via email. She isn’t fit for teaching. Abeer Hamza has been a huge headache for the year that I’ve taken her. Myself and several other classmates literally have had emotional breakdowns to each other. So if you take Hamza, and you’re not an Arab that speaks fluent fusha, understand that you’re in for a ride.
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