CHINESE-305D
PRE-ADVANCED CHINESE
Not in Fall 2026
Term
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that students generally rate the course well. Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.
DepartmentAMES
Terms offeredFall
Typical enrollment14–14
Semesters of data1
4.8
Hrs / week
14
Responses
14
Enrollment
100%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.1
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.1
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.6
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
3.4
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysislow
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 52 comments across 1 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that students generally rate the course well. Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms. The sample is still thin, so treat this as directional rather than definitive.
Student Reports
How hard is the A?
A is doable but not automatic
The signal here is more do-the-work-and-you-should-be-fine than easy-A chatter. Students do not describe the A as automatic, but the evidence also does not paint grading as punishing.
Homework Load
Moderate homework load
Homework load looks moderate. The recurring signal is steady weekly work, but not a course that turns every assignment into a grind.
Lecture Load
Regular lecture load
Lectures matter here, but the evidence points to a fairly standard lecture burden rather than a course dominated by long or exceptionally dense lectures.
Strengths
• Instructor ratings are strong even when the comments do not cluster around one obvious positive theme.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
Watch out for
• Most of the signal comes from a limited sample, so be careful about over-generalizing.
• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.
Student Responses
Learned more chinese characters
Fall 2023 · Zhang, Shu
How to speak in Chinese about the one child policy, aging populations, and group consciousness
Fall 2023 · Zhang, Shu
I learned how to better read and write Chinese, and speak as well.
Fall 2023 · Zhang, Shu
Developed language skills
Fall 2023 · Zhang, Shu
Chinese sentence structures, Chinese cultural understanding, and Chinese essay writing practice
Fall 2023 · Zhang, Shu
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | Zhang, Shu 5.0Rate My ProfessorsQuality5.0Difficulty2.7Would retake100%Based on 3 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 14 |
Instructor
Zhang, ShuAMES
Also teaches
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