Reviews of professor Huu Mai

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Mai is a cool guy but the class was mostly busy work. Weekly homework that took a while and boring lectures. You will have to attend 3 concerts and write reports on them along with a group project. He doesnt grade too hard but the workload is a lot.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof. Mai is great. He wants to help his students apply class piano to their actual careers, and he acknowledges that no one is, nor will be, a pianist. Must show up to class; he doesn't do makeup or late work without a legitimate excuse. He finds himself hilarious, which makes the class laugh. If you struggle, take advantage of his office hours.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a good professor. His lectures were boring to me considering I'm not too interested in music history but he's perfect for you if you do. Class consists of 3 weekly assignments (time consuming), a test after every unit, and 3 concert reports. Not a bad prof if you can get through the busy work. Final is the only open response assignment.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Prof Mai was a cool guy, albiet not the most communicative. But, his class was easy and as with everything on Connect, you're given enough chances to pass with flying colors. His final is a little wack w being 7/8 essay-based questions (so just longer responses, but he grades very leniently on it)

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
The class was very easy, the lectures just covered segments of the book with added examples so I didn't watch a single one. Any basic knowledge of music theory is enough to explain the concerts with enough detail to get a 100 on the reports. Open-book activities and the weekly quizzes are not difficult at all.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you are super passionate about music I 100% would take this class with this professor. However like most students who are required to take this class it just was not it. The final was essay based and listening based, there was numerous quizzes and 1hr smart book assignments every single week and essay concert reports. Just take it online.