Reviews of professor Chuan Liao

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Heavy lack of understanding between students & professor in this class. The class average for the midterm was 63. During the midterm debrief, he just blamed us the whole time. I haven't taken the final but regardless of how much I study, I'm not confident I will do well. Don't take it unless you want to be extremely frustrated the whole semester.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Out-of-touch with realistic expectations based on his quality level of teaching. Attendance is mandatory just to strain to hear him whisper/mumble read off of usually 30-40+ slides per class. Tests are multiple choice, T/F, short and long answer and can be off anything mentioned even once. Study guides are an outline of every slide of the course

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took sos327 online, it was a lot of work. each weekly module had 5-20 readings/videos and 3-4 assignments. the final was a "short answer" and a test; short answer resembled the weekly assignments, but the test was STUPID. I had a 99.8% in the class and got a 78 on the test. confusing, random trick questions.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Your grade is based off of attendance, two tests, and a project. He is unclear in giving instructions for and grading the project. The tests could have questions about any of the material mentioned in the lectures. My friend made a 67 page study guide for the final because of how randomly specific the midterm was. ):

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class was surprisingly easy and very interesting. I took it as an online class so my interaction with Professor Liao was through canvas. However, he was very encouraging and was very clear about class instructions. He also graded very easily. Most of the assignments are worksheets and there is only one test at the end which was a final.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The course took a holistic point of view towards the food systems problem today. I did learn a lot of agriculture. The slides were well structured and had a lot of good information in them. Exams were challenging but the questions were fair.