Reviews of professor Steve Liu

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Liu's cool, but his teaching is dry. Doesn't recommend his students to work on characters & turning it in as homework. Which causes many to not even practice the characters outside of class, & when it comes to the tests you're pretty much done for. Wished that he had been more hands on & given us more opportunities to interact in Mandarin.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Liu is a bad professor and given lots of tests at the end of the semester. He didn't even give back the test result to all his students so he can grade as whatever he wants. Be careful and don't take his class. You don't even learn any Chinese in his class and just want you to get the bad grade if he doesn't like you.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Liu is a VERY tough grader. Students are only allowed to use the material we learn in class, anything else he takes points off. In order to get an A, you have to have at least 93% overall. Tests are tough, even for the natives. This class only gets harder as it goes. Hard to reach outside class. No extra credit.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He is the best professor who I never meet before in SCC. His class is amazing. You will learn a lot of Chinese and Chinese culture in this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor is a very tough grader. Your grade will never going up but going down. I'm a mandarin speaker, but I treat this class seriously still. And I only get a B at the end, I got all A for other class but this class. For the final oral test, you need to answer 50 question in 6min. Think about what happened if you didn't answer all questions

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Excellent professor! He is very fair, great communicator and will impart a wealth of information. Learning Mandarin in this class is based on self motivation and commitment. All the information and teaching is there, Excellent class!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The "homework" was a joke: if you watched the weekly video lesson from China, you can answer the questions. But there was very little grammar practice or sentence formation outside of the weekly lesson. His final exam was entirely oral, and the hardest kind of translation there is--for a beginner class. Ridiculous.