Professor West is one of the sweetest people you will ever meet! Her section this semester was held at 8 am and she was super understanding of the fact that we were all half asleep. She really wants everybody to learn and have fun at the same time. Her response time to email is amazingly fast. Attendance is taken every day and there's always at least an hour or two of homework after each lesson, but I'm pretty sure both policies are department wide. There is a lot of variation in the material and it's not just language-based - topics like social, cultural, and economics get brought up a lot. I recommend taking this class with her - she's great!