Reviews of professor Wei Yu Tan

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a bit boring when giving lectures but his tests and quizzes are relatively easy if you keep up with the readings. Also, he's willing to help outside of class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Tan is a lovely man. Lectures are slideshows he reads--he doesn't post them later, take good notes. Quizzes are easy if you do the reading/watch videos. The take-home midterm was killer (8 hours of work) but honestly the easy quizzes made up for it. No daily hw, just reading and a few projects. Very understanding and good w email/comm in general

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Tan is passionate about Disability Studies and about Hope Students! His IDS 172 Class on Disability is amazing and was eye opening for me an many of my peers. The content of the class is clearly assembled into a cohesive course curriculum. There are a few papers and many quizzes for this class, they are all fairly easy and graded lightly.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's a nice guy but he does not give very clear instructions. For quizzes, they are unnecessarily detailed and not open notes despite the exams being open notes. There is lots of reading, (20-30 page chapters a class) and the quiz questions are on information in 1 paragraph of the chapter.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Tan is an amazing prof! I actually had him for History 120. His grading criteria is clear, and he is very accessible outside of class. He is really nice, truly cares about his students, is understanding, and wants you to do well. I felt the workload was very manageable. All of the quizzes and exams were take home, which was really nice.