Reviews of professor Sewan Fan

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is my warning to you. DON'T. TAKE. HIM. He does not seem to care about teaching and spends half the class talking about Facebook. He seems like a nice guy, but he is more interested in research. He teaches at 4 colleges so he doesn't have time to help outside of lectures. DON'T TAKE HIM if you want to learn and pass. He doesn't teach the same.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He makes mistakes on his own tests. And I don't mean small grammatical errors or things like that- the entire question is just crazy. For instance, Dr. Fan had once given us a quiz question which asked for mass in Newtons. He marks correct answers wrong and needs desperate pleading to correct himself. If only there was a 0 rating available...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I have never had a worse teacher. The class is incredibly easy to pass but it is literally not worth all of the stress and anger you go through as a student in one of his classes. I have no idea how he has good ratings. I have talked to most of the other students in my class this semester and we all feel the same way about his teaching.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Fan reads off scanned PDFs that were made for last semester which was online. These lectures are essentially him retelling material from the textbook and poorly explaining the problems. So you are sitting there on your computer doing nothing except staring at his notes trying to understand whatever he wrote a year ago. Try SJCC instead.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Extremely unorganized, impossible to follow during the lectures and the lab instructions are very confusing. You have to teach yourself.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible teacher. Taught from unreadable notes and used slides that were totally NOT understandable. I could not understand any of his lectures, and I often had to teach myself from the book and YouTube. Labs were highly stressful. DO NOT TAKE

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This prof taught badly. All he taught were not in quizzes/midterms. Quizzes were timed and impossible to do in a given time. He discourages students not having big dreams of pursuing the best universities for transfer. I wonder why. Perhaps, he failed to attend those universities. Not recommended.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Well, this is rather a simple choice. If you're a fan of working yourself to death because you aren't taught anything, if you're eager to deal with long-winded explanations of the difference between McLaren and Fiat cars, be my guest and sign up for Dr. Fan's class. In short, if you expect to learn something even partially useful, do NOT take him.