Reviews of professor ZhongXu Liu

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
PART 3:

This class seriously scared me. So many people dropped this class.  Wow, this is seriously the hardest class, and my whole class agrees on this. Good luck to those who are going to take it. My prayers are with y'all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Three 3 hour exams worth 200 pts each, 4 page term paper, weekly discussions. Exams include 4-5 essays, 50 questions with diagrams and labeling, with citing the source of each piece of info mandatory. Tough grader, overreacter, and overall very dramatic and strict. Unreasonable expectations and a HEAVY course. Overall terrible professor and course.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is the hardest class I've ever taken (just graduated). He's a great professor, but the lectures are so heavy. He wants to teach every single detail there is. This would be a good graduate class. His exams are not easy, but they don't need all the information he teaches. Every week has at least 4-hour lectures. Too much to learn in little time.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Liu was is a good person, but he is not *yet* a good professor. Some examples of his shortcomings include: being short with students and even rude in some cases, assigning ungraded homework and conflating that with graded homework, a difficult language barrier, very difficult exams, and never giving out 100% on any assgninemnt.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
HE is my favorite professor at UMD. Explains everything you need to do in an organized manner. provides all the necessary material. We had a midterm, final, research paper and quiz 1/week based on lecture videos which were very interesting. Watch the lectures weekly, follow his instructions, stay caught up on essay deadline and you will do great.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
would not recomend if you are taking full time classes, as this course is designed for those that are not taking any hard core sciences. ridicululus the amount of work is required for a one credit class, too picky on labs need to spend hours and days working on them to do decent