Reviews of professor Shaun Sun

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Shaun enjoy statistics but he is super late at giving practice exercises for exams which doesn't give enough time to go through to ask questions if needed. Sometimes he answer his emails, but many times there are no reply. Never received any feedback on the labs for the entire semester. Hard to stay motivated with so little feedback.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Expectations are unclear, prof often late, zero respect for student's time, textbook is terrible, homework website also terrible, emails often unanswered for weeks, office hours are limited and have zero flexibility, prof doesn't connect ideas to concepts and half the time you don't actually know what concept you should be using. 20+hr/wk homework

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
AWFUL! Waste of time & money. Do NOT take his class. He is extremely unorganized, shows up late, is not clear with explaining the material. If he says he will post an assignment later that day, he really means the next day. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our final exam was online, he said he'd release the exam a bit early but ended up 10 mins late.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Shaun is a really good guy, he's passionate about math and statistics and tries his best to make sure everyone understands. The textbook was useful but not mandatory, the online code was mandatory. If you do all your homework and pay attention in class you shouldn't have any problem passing. He is a very lenient marker.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Shaun is possibly the worst professor at VIU. I tried riding the semester out as long as I could, because as people have stated, Shaun is a nice guy. But nice isn't what qualifies a professor to be good at his job. Do yourself a favour and take the course with Dean S instead.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Avoid this class like the black plague. I was very disappointed with this course, his lectures are heavy and very hard to follow along with. He isn't very clear either, hard to understand. The way the class is structured makes it hard to do well, your marks are based heavily on the tests which are all written and no multiple choice. So disorganized

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Avoid this professor at all costs. He is disorganized and has zero respect for your time and money. We didn't get our mid term back for a month after taking it. VIU should be embarrassed to have him as a professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Horrible at getting back to you, tried to email him twice about a quiz, once got back to on the day of and the second never gotten back to. Really disorganized and rarely comes to class on time, never posts anything about the quiz until the night of, I know its during COVID-19 however I would have expected better.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
For all the assignments we had to use a website that was designed by a 5 year old Incredibly difficult to use. When it crashed I reached out to him and never heard back I was unable to hand in an assignment and I emailed him twice about it. Also for some reason "asynchronous" to him means you have to attend the lecture synchronously.