Reviews of professor Hojong Shin

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Easy Pass, Hard A

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Incredibly nice and a generous grader. Not the best at dumbing things down, but still a solid teacher. Case study group presentation- pick group members wisely!  Expects you to know what you learned in FIN300. Plenty of extra credit opportunities. Not the easiest class, but also not a soul-crushingly hard class. Wish he taught more classes.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He splits 3 exams into 6 quizzes and drop the lowest quiz score.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Weekly worksheet, three exams, random XC opportunities. Difficult/dry material- don't skip class. Exams tough but based on worksheets. Hard to understand at times (accent) but he's really nice and emails back fast/always available for help. Kinda monotonous, but you can tell he's really trying. To be fair, it's tough to make finance exciting.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Shin is a kind person, however, his lectures were fast and not very in depth. Midterm group project is difficult, not much guidance in this class. You have to figure out a lot on your own but if you reach out to prof he is happy to help. If you do everything perfectly up to final, you can get a B without taking it. Extra credit opportunities.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There are two group projects (not too hard), weekly worksheets for credit, and a final that he brags about the class average being 30-40%. If you don't understand something or have an opinion he doesn't agree with, he has no problem making you feel stupid. Not the worst professor, but wouldn't recommend if you really want to learn.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He teaches the material on a surface level, but expects you to put 2 and 2 together to solve a problem that requires a more in-depth understanding/ application of the topic. I'm a non- Finance major and even though I received an A (class got easier bc of COVID-19), I didn't learn much. Very nice guy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amazing professor. He is very caring and will contact you if you have been MIA in the semester for assignments. He wants to see all of his students succeed. Mid-term group project is tough, but the final exam is tougher. He assigns extra credit of up to 5%. If you submit everything and do good going into the final exam you should get a B minimum.