CHINESE-407S
ISSUES IN CHINESE LANG/SOC I
Offered Fall 2026
Term
Instructor
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that discussion is a clear strength. Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent.
DepartmentAMES
Terms offeredFall
Typical enrollment6–15
Semesters of data3
3.8
Hrs / week
31
Responses
33
Enrollment
94%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.4
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.4
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.5
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
3.3
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysishigh
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 110 comments across 3 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that discussion is a clear strength. Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent.
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
Lighter lecture burden
Student comments describe this as more discussion-, seminar-, or workshop-driven than lecture-dependent. The lecture burden itself does not sound like the main source of friction.
Strengths
• Discussion is a clear strength; students repeatedly describe the class conversation as engaging and useful.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who will actually talk in class instead of sitting silent.
Student Responses
1. How to speak/write chinese better 2. immersed myself in chinese culture and learned a lot about traditions and customs 3.. developed critical thinking skills among various different social topics
Fall 2025 · Hung, Jin-Wei
cultural changes and developments within China regarding gender roles, work, marriage, politics, and economic disparity.
Fall 2025 · Hung, Jin-Wei
Chinese
Fall 2025 · Hung, Jin-Wei
New sentence structures, Chinese history (cultural revolution), creating projects in Chinese
Fall 2025 · Hung, Jin-Wei
1. How to write academic Chinese literature 2. A new perspective on Chinese culture 3. How to speak chinese
Fall 2025 · Hung, Jin-Wei
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | Hung, Jin-Wei | 4.6 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 15 |
| Fall 2024 | Hung, Jin wei | 4.1 | 3.3 | 4.8 | 12 |
| Fall 2023 | Hsu, Shu-Ting 3.0Rate My ProfessorsQuality3.0Difficulty5.0Would retake50%Based on 2 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 6 |
Instructor
Hung, Jin-WeiAMES
Also teaches
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