Reviews of professor Guoyuan Liu

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Tough course with bitter teacher.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you are not good at either Chinese or essay writing, plz do not take this course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a knowledgeable and willing teacher, but he is overconfident in his opinions and does not respect any ideas of his students. Once a student puts forward an opinion that is different from his, he will sneer and criticize. You can learn some from his class, but you will lose more of your interest in Chinese.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This course is very difficult. Mandatory Zoom meetings and weekly online discussion posts and quizzes. There was a huge number of external readings in this course as well. The symbols are very abstract, and Professor Liu does not explain them clearly. In addition, he was condescending to students who struggled with the material. I felt unwelcome.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Always believed that he knew more than everyone else. Disturbs and scoffs at students' speeches. Unpredictable grading.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a particularly mean prof!be careful!!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is a gentleman with excellent academic knowledge and full of empathy. He responds quickly to emails and always has efficient and friendly suggestions for students' needs. In addition to learning about Chinese culture, in his class, you can also intuitively feel the style of Chinese gentlemen from him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took this course in the summer semester, there were only lecture videos. I could not change the speed and if I want to review, I have to watch about three 40min videos again. We have quizzes every day, reading quizzes and lecture quizzes. We also have forums to talk about our thoughts about the characters or the plot.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst professor imaginable, don't take his class, no matter how hard you try, you won't get a fair grade. Believe me, I would say I have no interest in Chinese after his course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I do not understand why this prof got so many bad reviews. I took his 1651 last year and everything was good. And honestly, as long as you go to the class, you'll be fine, 50% of the final essay was not a big deal, I got 42%. I just don't get it, some of u, if you're not prepared and you come to class, is the prof the one you should be blaming on?

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
For some of you, if you're not fully prepared before coming to class, you will never learn. That's the truth, and just blaming the professor does not help with your grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Most useless class I have ever taken.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took the courses in summer. The course required a lot of readings everyday, and the hardest part were the midterm that allowed you to wrote two essays in one day. The final were occupied 45% of your courses, and professor would control the class average and caused you' could not received the fair feedback on final.