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HDFS 101 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 9:50 am, Jan 9, 2010 |
1 of 1 people found the following evaluation helpful: I loved Dr. Yang. He is clearly passionate for what he does, and just wants you to know the information. The total course was only 25 points so it was very challenging, but really interesting. It is a must that you take descriptive notes. He kind of jumps around a lot so make sure you are paying attention. For the essays make sure you re-read it like 10 times, all your grammer must be correct!! Was this rating helpful to you? |
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HDFS 101 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 10:30 am, May 12, 2010 |
First of all, this guy was verryyyy unorganized. He gives you a syllabus at the beginning of the semester, but doesn't even follow it. We were supposed to have 5 papers and 5 quizzes (papers worth 5 points, and quizzes worth 3). We ended up having 3 papers and 4 quizzes. Which means there was a lack of opportunity to raise your grade if you wanted. Plus...I feel like rules of the course were constantly changing. He never adressed the class about any confusions which was extremely frustrating. Especially when it came to how many of these quizzes and papers we were going to have. By the end of the semester he didn't know what he was going to do about either.
Also...I can honestly say I didn't learn a single thing in this class. Sure he was intelligent but...everything he talked about was so far out there.
The grading system was too harsh too...especially with a 5 POINT paper. I felt more like I was taking a writing class then a human development class.
This class was a failure to be honest...I am really disappointed. He said it was his last class ever. Maybe he gave up? Idk...but it's probably a good thing that he won't be teaching this again.
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HDFS 101 Freshman Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 1:12 pm, Feb 22, 2010 |
Just a hard professor to learn from.
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HDFS 101 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 4:04 pm, Jan 30, 2010 |
Overall, Dr. Yang was a great professor who made the subject fun and interesting. As long as you go to class and take good notes, you will do fine. For the essays, it helps to go to the review sessions so you know how to organize your writing the best way possible in order to answer all parts of the prompt. It was not necessary to read the book past the information needed for the first essay, again as long as you go to class. I would highly recommend this course.
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HDFS 101 Freshman Grade Earned: C Elective 2:24 pm, May 18, 2009 |
This class offered some interesting stories we evaluated but I dont feel i learned much on the topic. It was a lot of news stories then evaluating them with psychology theories. We had very few grades so if you bomb the first few assignments its hard to make it up! also he grades on a 5 point scale so if you do the title wrong and have a few spelling/grammer errors you get knocked a point, and i generally wrote a paper that was worth a 4 for content so if that happens your grade will be a 60. its real easy to lose points and each point you lose is 20pnts off your grade on the paper. also I spent sooo much on the book and opened it once.
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HDFS 101 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Elective 1:40 pm, May 17, 2009 |
Raymond is a pretty good professor. The lectures are strait-forward lectures by him the entire time, but they are generally fairly interesting.
In addition, there are no tests. Five essays and five quizzes.
The quizzes are random, but he always let's students call their friends the days of quizzes to make sure if they aren't in class at the time they can get there before the quiz is given.
I'd recommend NOT buying the textbook. It's interesting, but I spent $140 on it and never needed to use it.
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HDFS 100 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 4:26 pm, Jan 4, 2009 |
I enjoyed Yang as a professor. Although he was scattered a lot of the time, his lectures always turned out interesting. I'm not sure if I pulled out any useful information from this class, but it was a class I didn't mind going to. Yang is very relatable and the class isn't too hard to get a good grade in. The grade is based of 5 one page papers and 5 in class quizzes (the first of which is extra credit). However, the TA's graded the papers way to hard making it more of an English class than anything. The essays are out of 5 points and they took 1/2 point off automatically for any grammer mistakes and 1/2 point off for a bad title.
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HDFS 101 Sophomore Grade Earned: A General Ed 5:54 pm, Dec 24, 2008 |
A great class!He claims a lot of people struggle and don't enjoy his class but I loved it. It's purely paper-based, no tests, and 5 in-class quizes. You really need to go to lecture but if you do you'll have absolutely no problem at al.
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HDFS 101 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Elective 10:29 pm, Dec 3, 2008 |
I loved Yang's class and teaching style. He gave four one paged papers that were super easy to write as long as you attend the lectures. Other than that he just gives one sentence quizzes to make sure you show up. Overall the class kept me interested and I thought Yang was hilarious! Forget all these mean people... take his class!
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HDFS 101 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 10:20 am, Nov 18, 2008 |
I took HDFS 101 in hopes to actually learn something fun and interesting. Instead all I got was Yang talking about non-sense and rambling on about nothing. Taking this class with Yang actually made me question being an HDFS major cause the class was so mind numbingly boring! Luckily I stuck with it and I love my major now! I DO NOT RECOMMEND PROF YANG!!!
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HDFS 101 Senior Grade Earned: A Elective 3:17 pm, Aug 22, 2008 |
Dr. Yang is obviously very knowledgeable and is a nice human being, and that is everything good that I have to say about him in relation to my experience with him as a professor. Taking HDFS 101 from him made my life a living hell for a whole semester. He didn't grade anything himself and all three of his GTAs graded differently. The entire course was out of 25 points (5 points per essay) and I still have no idea how I got an A. Up until finals week, I had no idea where I stood in the class -- even after meeting with him several times and a GTA once! The expectations and grading scale were not clearly explained, and the amount of perfection required from the 5 essays is ridiculous for a 100-level course. Also, I feel like I learned nothing, since I never opened the book and was never tested over any actual HDFS material. I would not recommend this professor to anyone.
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HDFS 101 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 2:45 pm, Apr 28, 2008 |
My favorite teacher so far. Everyone complains that the essays are hard, but as long as you go to class and take notes he tells you exactly what needs to be said in the essay. By using his own words and a few things from the book the lowest I got on an essay is a 4 out of 5. No tests or final. He was funny and I was interested in what he talked about eventhough it isn't my major.
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HDFS 101 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 8:17 pm, Apr 12, 2008 |
I thought Yang was an awful teacher. There were 3 TAs and they all graded differently so obviously he didnt give them grading standards. There are no tests only one page essays. He gives us interesting case studies to respond to but doesnt explain much about the technical info like theories and such. I got absolutely nothing out of this course. Pointless except for the fact that its a pre-req. for HDFS courses
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HDFS 101 Freshman Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 10:53 pm, Apr 10, 2008 |
Yang is an okay professor, the class is really boring and he's a hard grader, but there are no tests. If you are a good writer, I highly recommend taking the class. He gives pop quizes on snowy days when no one comes, so make sure to go on those days. Yang can be funny and the class is sometimes interesting. Very interesting topics are discussed but for the most part, i just want to sleep during the class.
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HD 101 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 5:22 pm, Dec 9, 2007 |
Professor Yang is an interesting person and very nice. However, he is extremely vague and then expects you to answer his essay perfectly. He doesn't have any exams, only papers (5) and pop quizzes. Because the grading of the essays is only out of 5 points and the quizzes 3, it is extremely hard to do well. Avoid taking him if possible, but if you do take him, attend every class and meet with the TA's as much as you can.
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HD 101 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 1:27 am, Dec 21, 2006 |
Yang was a teacher who didnt go indepth on Family Development...I thought he was a nice guy but wanted more infromation on the class..I didnt learn very much...you had to write 5 papers and take one inclass quiz...i thought that he graded the papers strict..although i didnt miss class i dont think that it was that benefical in writing the papers....the book isnt used at all and barely refered to so i wouldnt buy the book because it is about $125 and you dont use it
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HD 101 Junior Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 6:48 pm, Dec 20, 2006 |
Yang is very flexible. Our grade was based on 5 papers and one quiz. The papers definitely got you to think about things more than you would originally. I definitely recommend him.
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HD 101 Freshman Grade Earned: C Elective 7:51 pm, Dec 14, 2006 |
Dr. Yang seems to know what he is talking about, but never does. During class he spends 20 minutes talking about what we are going to be talking about the next lecture, then 10 minutes on stories barely relating to the subject, and the last 20 minutes on what we are supposed to be talking about. When he gives the essay assignments, he does not even state the question clearly, so most of us did not know what to write about. On some papers, he does not even give you relevant information to discuss in your essays. I strongly recommend not taking this class unless you like to do research.
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HD 101 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 5:13 pm, Oct 10, 2006 |
Professor Yang likes to talk a lot. And not about what is in the book. If you enjoy listening to real life tales you can relate to the course his lectures are fun and entertaining. If you're looking for a class that's by the book, straight cut, this course is wrong. The topics for his essays are hard to understand and a lot of group help is needed. If you take this class with a friend or two, you should be fine, but if you take it alone it might be hard to understand questions. To me, the class seems like a waste of time. Go the week he assigns an essay and you'll be ok. Otherwise class is just sitting and listening to stories.
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HD 334 Senior Grade Earned: A General Ed 1:11 am, Aug 24, 2006 |
the guy is just a story-teller. all i learned in his parenting class was: don't murder your kid like andrea yates did. you just hear case stories and have to write papers about them. you won't learn how to be an effective parent - you'll just learn stuff you should already know (like don't drown your children in a tub). i'd take a parenting class with somebody else if you actually want to learn how to be a good parent.
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HD 101 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 9:18 pm, May 7, 2005 |
He is an overall really nice guy, he is pretty enthusiastic about what he teaches, but is very vague and hates working with computers, so he doesn't do WebCT. You must go to class to pass this course, so if you're up to it, and already familiar with courses similar to this one, take it, if not, I'd say not to. The nice thing is though, there is no final, it's an essay!
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HD 101 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Elective 12:09 pm, May 2, 2005 |
I think that Yang is an easy teacher. He doesnt test, just has 4 one page papers that you have to write over the lecture material. Go to class no matter what because he gives ec. quizzes and you need his material! Dont buy the book just go to class. He is nt a very hard grader, just make sure your papers are written well and you'll get an A.
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HD 334 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 6:34 pm, Mar 2, 2005 |
I really enjoyed this class. It was so different from all my other lectures in the fact that I didn't have to prepare anything for class, I could just show up and take notes. What a refreshing change! Yang's essays were not easy, but I didn't find them to be overly difficult either. I appreciate the fact that we are allowed to have our own opinion on the topics presented. As long as each opinion is defended, Yang's papers aren't too bad.
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HD 334 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 10:19 pm, Oct 1, 2004 |
I think that so many people judge Yang as a bad professor, but I think that everyone should give him a chance. Just because he does not lecture straight from the book and give exams does not mean that he is a bad professor. I learned more from Yang in his parenting class than I would have ever learned if I had taken the course with someone else. He is a great educator and he really teaches you to think outside the box. It was like no other HD course I have taken before, which is a major plus!
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HD 334 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 1:53 pm, Mar 24, 2004 |
I love Dr. Yang. He does pretty much only talk and doesn't really have visuals, but he makes his classes about current events and social issues. I think he works hard to find information that will interest us as students. People may not like him because he doesn't make you take tests to spit out facts you read from the book. You actually have to think in his class in order to write the papers. He lets the students discover what they believe on their own provided the facts he gives plus your own research. I think people that find his lectures irrelevant think so just because the way he presents it doesn't make it feel like someone is cramming facts and figures down your throat. Just so you know, his classes are ALL writing. And HD334 doesn't teach you how to be a good parent, because parenting is all relative. Instead, it talks about important issues related to parenting.
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HD 401 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 7:13 pm, May 10, 2003 |
Rambling on and on is correct. I had Yang for both parenting and child socialization. While is class is overly simply I did not learn and thing and both classes were a waste of my time and money. I would have rather taken thse classes with another prof. even if I got a lower grade as long as I would have walked away with something I can use in the furure. Yang likes to go off on tangents that have nothing to do with the class. If you want an easy A take Yang if you actually care about learning something don't take Yang.
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HD 101 Sophomore Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 9:14 pm, May 7, 2003 |
ramble on dr. yang!!!his papers are irrelevant to the course, what a jerk
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HD 101 Freshman Grade Earned: A General Ed 11:03 am, Nov 14, 2002 |
I agree that Dr. Yang makes this class very interesting. He is funny, witty and does enjoy class participation. He answers every question aksed, and calls on anyone who raises their hand, even if he is mid-conversation. Although you stand a better chance in this class if you do write well, it still does not come easy. You need to be in class, as he does not rely on the text. He invokes thought-processing, which leads to very interesting issues. Your entire grade is based on 5 take home essays, and 3 in-class essays. He gives you all the pertinent information to write them, perhaps with a little research of your own to boost it up. To give you an example of what types of essays you write, we just completed an essay in which we were asked to place John Lee Malvo within Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning. Doing minimal independent research, combined with Dr. Yang's lectures, you should be able to do that and get an A. While it may be seen as an easy A, as really all you have to do is show up for class (no tests, no homework, etc.), you are required to think outside the box. That's why I love this class and hope to take another of his courses.
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HD 216 5th Year Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 4:09 pm, Oct 30, 2002 |
His lectures are filled with nothing but rambling... parenting and socialization could have been such interesting classes, but his "lectures" make no sense and contain almost no useful information. If you can write well, it's an easy A, but his classes have no benefit aside from a GPA boost
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HD 101 Junior Grade Earned: B Elective 1:42 am, Sep 29, 2002 |
He makes classes very interesting, and loves getting the students involved in discussion. I highly recommend this professor.
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