Students have often said that there are too many written assessments due at the same time. To some extent this is inevitable - e.g. an essay cannot be due in week three! Therefore, I have structured the assessments so that the first essay is due after the mid-semester break with a week off to complete it, and the second major one is due after the teaching period has ended. Students in the past have often asked if they could answer their own essay question, rather than one from a limited range of questions. As this is a postgraduate unit of study, and one that is theoretically focussed, I also think that there are pedagogical reasons for allowing such flexibility in addition to it being desirable that students may focus on a specific issue or case that they are interested in. The essay questions are therefore framed in a manner that that this is possible. Some students in various units I have previously coordinated have expressed frustration that I was not presenting my views, but instead trying too hard to be neutral in the way the subject matter is presented. I now openly and quite forcefully present my opinions. Sometimes I also 'try on' opinions that I do not necessarily agree with! The aim is always to stimulate discussion and debate, and students have told me that they appreciate my honesty as opposed to pretending to be ambivalent. But my view is not necessarily more 'right' than anyone else's. Nor is there an objectively 'right' view. Opinions expressed should be challenged, and above all they should be backed with critical analysis based on logical argument supported with evidence. As multiple conclusions are possible on the basis of this, there has been much robust debate between students, as well as between students and myself, in the past! Many have changed their mind in the process. I certainly have.