Reviews for Huichun Liang
Average Rating:| zhangsta Course: CHIN213 Grade Expected: A December 17, 2010, 1:40 pm | She's a fairly lenient grader. Your grade was essentially based on attendance, a presentation, and two exams. The exams always had a closed book segment followed by an open book segment. For the closed book section, you really only had to know who wrote the poem or which poem the line is from. Other than that, this class shouldn't give you too much trouble. |
| a778999 Course: CHIN213 Grade Expected: A May 18, 2010, 1:12 am | This class is arguably the easiest 3-credit class to get an A in in the entire university. Just look at the grade distribution. Need I say more? According to her syllabus, the grade is based on attendance, quizzes, a midterm, a final, and a project where you give a presentation and write a paper. The project was a joke: pick any topic related to China and give a presentation on it. When we gave our presentations she didn't even write notes down/grade us. I honestly don't think she even kept track of who gave presentations. She relied on us to sign up for dates and upload the powerpoints on Blackboard. The paper didn't take any effort at all. I just copied the text from my powerpoint and converted into paragraph form. Even though she didn't say so explicitly, I believe the project is a completion grade where she checks if you uploaded a file to Blackboard. She takes attendance almost every class so you have to either show up or get a friend to sign your name. Her tests are divided into two parts: short answer and essay, which are closed and open book respectively. To study just make sure you memorize who wrote what poem. Honestly you're better off if you cram that five minutes before the test because you'll forget it if you actually study it. The essay part requires no studying: I'm pretty sure she doesn't even read them and just takes two points off of everyone's essay no matter what they wrote. I've gotten the same grade on all of my tests. In summery, this class is a joke. I did and learned absolutely nothing and am getting a free A. Do yourself a favor, take this class and fulfill your HL without subjecting yourself to torture as you otherwise would. |
| Anonymous Course: CHIN213 Grade Expected: A May 13, 2010, 3:04 pm | Professor Liang is a really nice person. Her policies and syllabus is hella confusing and she doesn't seem to follow through on them, but that's OK because she usually gives students the benefit of the doubt and doesn't act like she's anyone's enemy. Basically, whatever she says in class ends up on blackboard, but her organization of presenting the material on there is terrible (you will get used to it). You don't really need to pay attention in class, but sometimes she forgets to upload notes to blackboard and sometimes she just doesn't have any typewritten notes to post. Her quizzes/midterms/final exam are all of the exact same format. You really wouldn't know how to tell them apart from one another except that the midterm/final had an extra essay question. Basically about 40% of each is dedicated to a "closed-book" section in which you may need to match authors to titles of poems, or (and this sucks, believe me) she'll give you a couple lines of a poem and ask you to write the name of the poem and the poet who wrote it. She also throws in T/F about poetry concepts (and sometimes about poems), but I don't recall having any multiple choice. When you have a quiz in this class just make sure that you memorize the titles and authors of poems. Luckily, for each test you only had to know about 10 poems tops. My strategy was to memorize buzz words from every other line of the poems. It's a pain but it's what you have to do. The next part of her tests (~60%) is the open book section where she asks you to compare two poems or (my favorite) "do you like xy's poetry? Why or why not?" You really don't need to study for the open book section at all. We also had two pop quizzes, each worth 1% of our grade -- basically she wrote a poem on the board and an author and title and asked us if what she wrote was correct (T/F). That said, again, she's disorganized and kind of confused but she's extremely nice and very willing to help students out. Don't be a dick who tries to take advantage of her niceness. I suppose this class taught me to appreciate the difficulties in translation and to note how many different interpretations there can be of a poem, and it does beat having to read novels by far. |