Mme Dufresne is genuinely prepared for each lecture she gives, which is great. She also grades fairly but critically - she points out each mistake you make, giving you as many opportunities to learn as possible. Therefore, her grading is essentially fair. However, sometimes she seems uncaring. It was definitely a class in which I subsisted on self-motivation. She brought a lot to the material, and provided ample opportunities to engage in the texts; but, for me, her distance made it hard for me to be excited about French.