Reviews of professor Liane Chen

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Chen did read off the slides a lot, but if you pay close attention she does mention a fact that i found helpful on exams. she was quite simply ok
pro tips:
1) sit with smart bio kids cus there are group sections on midterms/finals and having that group can really save you
2) study for MLM tests there 3 and count for 15% and 1 retake are allowed

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Idk man I was just not feeling the vibes of her teaching style. I appreciate her efforts to try to make content relatable to students, but sometimes it felt a bit too forced. Additionally, most lectures she would just read off of slides in a monotone voice and then ask a few questions to the class. Lots of iClickers tho which were helpful.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Average prof, teaches well enough to get through the course. Her lectures were often dry and lacked enthusiasm, which made me less excited about going to class. She is caring towards her students though! Getting this prof would not be bad, but note that there are better profs out there.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Garbage professor. Lectures are useless and boring, she is extremely odd and makes the atmosphere very uncomfortable. Lot of practice problems that are useless because they have no answer key, and very few ways to improve grades outside of tests. Avoid at all costs, couldn't pay me to take the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
RUN! YOU WON'T SURVIVE

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kind, but always rushes important information during lecture

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her exam is much easier than other bio 200 professors. Detailed biological mechanisms will not be tested heavily. However, she spends a lot of time on untestable questions during the lecture. Also, she replies emails and pizza questions effectively.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She tries her best and you can tell. Sweet woman but is an average lecturer at best. Tries to make her slides engaging but kind of just rambles. Course is easy enough to self study content-wise but the grading is god-awful and so specific - miss a word in your answer they wanted and you are getting zero on that question.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Terrible at explaining concepts, seems to be learning things as she goes. You are better off reading the textbook or watching youtube.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Please avoid at all costs! Unclear at times.

If there are spaces at other lectures, attend them since other profs wrote the exam.
My friend is in another section and did better.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The labs were mostly run by graduate TAs, but Liane was also there to answer any questions regarding experiments or provide feedback on our group project or final lab report. Overall, she's a fairly laid-back and kind lab instructor. Also, no final exam :)

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She was nice, I liked her lectures, midterm and final exam were graded pretty hard.