Professor
Luwei Ying
Most Helpful Review
Spring 2023 - I took this class as a pre req for the poli sci major, and I hated it. The content was so boring and the lectures were torturous. Ying is nice and wants to help students, but is unfortunately not a good lecturer and her classes were unengaging. TA Alex Munoz is not a good TA and was not very accommodating to students and I found him to be really unapproachable and frustrating. I didn’t enjoy participating in class because he often shot down what students suggested if they were just slightly wrong or missing something. He was difficult and a harsh grader, and I didn’t feel like I learned much in most of his sections. On the bright side, the final was very easy and I probably could have not attended a single lecture and just studied well to get a good grade. The essays on the other hand weren’t necessarily hard but they were not explained very well, and the grading was extremely nitpicky over things that weren’t clearly communicated to us.
Spring 2023 - I took this class as a pre req for the poli sci major, and I hated it. The content was so boring and the lectures were torturous. Ying is nice and wants to help students, but is unfortunately not a good lecturer and her classes were unengaging. TA Alex Munoz is not a good TA and was not very accommodating to students and I found him to be really unapproachable and frustrating. I didn’t enjoy participating in class because he often shot down what students suggested if they were just slightly wrong or missing something. He was difficult and a harsh grader, and I didn’t feel like I learned much in most of his sections. On the bright side, the final was very easy and I probably could have not attended a single lecture and just studied well to get a good grade. The essays on the other hand weren’t necessarily hard but they were not explained very well, and the grading was extremely nitpicky over things that weren’t clearly communicated to us.