Reviews of professor Hongyu Zhang

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I can understand the criticisms of Dr. Zhang but in my opinion, he's not bad. I have taken him for 2 classes now and done well. You do certainly have to work for your grade but, this isn't an intro course so it was expected. He's not for people that don't do well with lots of reading or short essay test questions but I personally enjoyed it.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Pretty dry topic for a class and it was hard to understand Professor Zhang most of the time. Only grades were the tests, final and book discussions. No tolerance policy for absences and in class discussion and participation was graded. It was alright but the tests were hard and I would never take another of his classes again.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lecture heavy but if you pay attention for most the time you will be completely fine. Midterm and final are easy enough if you do the reviews and pay attention to what he emphasizes during the review sessions. He is nice and very knowledgable

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Highly recommend taking his class. One midterm, one presentation, one paper and one final. He gives good feed back, did not grade too harshly and it is honestly easy to get a good grade as long as you participate in class. Was concerned after reading his reviews but now I am excited to take his other classes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Is not prepared, mostly teaching out of the textbook, had a policy memo and he approved my topic then gave me an 89 saying my topic wasnt fit for a policy memo Does not like it when you question him. Second time Ive had him, only at the advice of my department head. WOULD NEVER EVER WANT TO TAKE HIM EVER AGAIN.