Reviews of professor Hua Yan

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Yan is a funny guy who is clearly passionate about the subject. His lectures are straight to the point and he emphasizes important topics. Only complaint was that he sometimes went a little fast and can be hard to understand, but overall a great prof and the exam was super straight forward. Average score was a 80 with plenty of 100's

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Yan was nice, but it was hard to understand him sometimes. His accent, along with the speed and difficulty of the lectures made it hard to know what was happening in class, unless you were completely focused on him. I had to read the textbook in order to understand, the lectures weren't enough for me. The test was good.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Decent professor and has a fair exam, he's not out there to trick you. His lecture slides contain a lot of content but I still supplemented by studying with the textbook which is why I think I did well on his exam. Has some funny jokes during lecture and you need to be present in class to answer his learning catalytics

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
GREAT PROFESSOR FOR BIO! exam was SO easy, i got a 101 and he gives 2 pts extra credit for doing gator evals+ the curve. he met with me on zoom on a SUNDAY and explained everything. yes his accent is hard but all the learning catalytic are online. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW EVERY WORD FROM THE LECTURES because you will be tested. there are no curve balls

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Yan is possibly the most passionate, understanding, and enjoyable professors at this University and most definitely within the department of biology / genetics / medicine. His class is built around participation and he grades very leniently. I highly recommend the class if you have any interest in the topic.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Yan is pretty knowledgeable for this class. Learning catalytics is very important for his exam! Make sure to study all the content on his powerpoints.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The other ratings are right about one thing at least, and that's that Professor Yan uses very similar questions between the Learning Catalytics and exam. I feel like if you memorize those (ala flashcards) and commit to reviewing the slides a week before the exam, you can at least get a B. Pretty fine overall.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Yan is a great professor and is clearly passionate about what he does. I do not believe his accent is an issue at all. He will give you the tools to succeed, and he will remind you of them often. Learning Curve, Learning Catalytics, and other things will help you in his class. Take notes and make sure you understand, not just know, the content.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Yan is so sweet! He taught the more difficult unit, cells and macromolecules, so the content was difficult at times but he helps with learning catalytics and will even repeat the question if the majority of people got it incorrect. Definitely attend lectures for credit but his slides are super helpful and synthesize all the information.