Super nice and respectful lady—very accommodating. However, she's a bad lecturer/speaker and heavily weights midterm and final. Her grading is arbitrary and unclear. Beware she grades harshly if you don't follow her format. Not the worst but not the best. Don't be scared to take her if you have to but don't expect it to be great.

Two response papers- grading criteria were unclear and all readings had to be mentioned which was quite challenging. Feedback didn't really make sense, and lectures felt long and confusing. Easy to tune out and midterm had multiple choice that focused on very specific details in the class that are super easy to brush over.

Absolutely awful class. No sections and no explanation of the "covered" topics. Grading done on the basis of something nobody understands except for her. You basically walk out of the class confused and drained.

Shes very sweet but not considerate. She goes off of only the lecture slides and sometimes gets into pointless confusing tangents. There is no section in this class so she made us do 8 " extracurricular actions" Like watch movies or go to speakers and write a one page reflection, to make up for section. Essays are easy, exams are so so.

Lectures are not easy to follow and there is LOTS of reading and LOTS of writing. Papers have literally no prompt but expect you to use all of the readings, and then grades harshly. Midterm was about the most specific things ever there's no way to remember from studying, and some things on it were literally taught at the lecture 4 days before.AVOID

Professor Lien is simply a bad polisci professor. She is hard to understand because of her accent; it is unclear what she wants students to do with their response papers. Even worse, she takes away the lecture slides before the final. Avoid at all costs!