Reviews of professor Xin Yi

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She won't teach you anything because she doesn't think film classes can teach anything. She's doesn't have clear grading criteria. If you have to take 235 make sure to take it with anyone else.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Vague grading criteria and quality expectations. It's a lottery for students from her class who expect a high GPA. And there will be no real skill gains. I would not enroll in any of her classes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She'll only point out your flaws in class, but she won't tell you how to fix them. And although she is a Chinese, but she is particularly bad to Chinese students, also scold a classmate of our class to cry. She said she could not be absent, but an American student was absent, and she helped him plead with another teacher.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Class is generally unhelpful and boring, and every week she requires us to watch a very old, foreign film and respond to it in 500 words. She talks very quietly so it is sometimes hard to hear in person, as well as over the computer. Very difficult to learn when every film in the course feels exactly the same.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Didn't put in grades.  Asked multiple times when grades would be put in and was always told "soon".  There were 7 assignments given to us and only 3/7 were graded.  Everything else was left blank/ungraded.  She doesn't appreciate/value students time and will cancel meetings or even just forget about them and not take responsibility for it. Beware!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The weekly assignments sneak up on you very quickly, and she is very harsh on the midterm without offering many instructions to begin with.
Very hard to reach outside of class, I've taken her twice and never had a single response to an email.
She is clearly very knowledgeable, but unless you're ready to teach yourself, avoid.