Shirley Lim - Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Professor: Shirley Lim

Department: TBD

College: Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: HIS396
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Lim is a great professor. Although most of the class is led by the students she still really knows her stuff and helps us through the discussion if need be. As long as you read before the class and participate at least once every class you will get an A. The midterm and final are both papers that are graded very fairly.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: HIS396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

class was very hard to stay interested in.. she gives no lectures and your grade is 100% based on group presentations. she keeps track of each individual time that you raise your hand to say something. main problem: she's unhelpful , dismissive

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: HIS397
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Vague, detached, bubbly and unhelpful, Lim will make all but the most forgiving and patient students lose interest (and possibly their sanity). Beware: she is an arbitrary and capricious grader who comes across as unwilling to discuss or explain the grades she gives.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: HIS397
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Class was mostly student-led. She wasted a lot of time on laughably useless, patronizing in-class "exercises" that you would expect in elementary school, not a 300-level class (such as having everyone in the room read one sentence each out loud from the syllabus and wasting 15 minutes taking roll-call instead of just passing around a sign in sheet)

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: WST396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She is absolutely terrible. She talks like a chinese valley girl and is absolutely disgusting HATE HER . She is ridulous I dont know she manages to live life with her personality . AVOID HER

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: HIS396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dont expect her to teach anything its a discussion based class. Its not to bad but its really opinion based.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: HIS396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

It was an easy enough class, but I really didn't get anything out of. Professor Lim was nice, but she really didn't teach anything--we had to do it ourselves. Two midterms, one group project (yeah I know), and mandatory attendance. If you really want to learn history take a class with Masten instead.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: HIS396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The entire class is based on class discussion, and participation. You just have to go to class, and participate on the readings. Both midterms were take home essays, there was no final just the justification paper. Definitely take the class!

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: HIST396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Avoid her!!!!!!!!!!!! She missed lots of classes with lame excuses. She was pissed off because the department took away her TA but then the same TA kept on coming to class showing movies etc. Tconfusion continued when some guy (not trhe TA) graded almost everything. She didn't do anything really.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: HIS397
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

professor lim is a crowd pleaser, she is a nice woman and the classes are incredibly easy, but the midterm and final were extremely unfairly graded and considered that midterm and final is your whole grade and she doesnt grade them is makes the situation very unfair

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: HIS397
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

OMFG!Not only has she been absent 4 more than half the termit's unbelievable how irresponsible she is.Da second midterm is worth 30% of the grade n she lets some other guy grade da midterm N DA FINAL PAPER.Out of 30,18 n lower was F, A wa 30-28.She doesnt teach n she seriously needs to keep her personal issues at home!!!

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: HIST396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This class was a joke. A really bad professor! If you like to have class only once in a while, then take her. Half the classes are cancelled. But this makes for lots of confusion because the schedule gets screwed up. She doesn't really teach and don't expect to learn much.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: HIST397
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

shes very smart and interesting. class was easy since its all participation. have to do reading. you can bs and get a good grade. she even cancels class sometimes and gave our whole class a A for the first midterm cuz the history department took away her TA.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: HISTORY396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I have no idea why anyone wouldn't love this smart, interesting, kind, humble young teacher. She assigns fascinating reading, knows her stuff, values her student's insights and the conversations in her class are fun. No one would dislike her unless they simply did not do the reasonable amount of work she required and wanted to blame her for a C.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: HIS396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Absolutely couldn't stand her! She was a god-awful professor from the word GO! My god! I can't stand her! She relies so much on participation it's not even funny. She doesn't actually teach. I think I took at most 2 pages of lecture notes from her all semester. Everything else was relied on students! Man! What are we paying her for?!?!? Don't take!

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: HIS396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Someone who failed both tests and wrote a POS paper got nearly the same grade as someone who got low A-high B on the tests and wrote a very good paper. Insanity. She made this semester hell and made me rethink my history major.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: HIS396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: HIST396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

All the people telling you not to take the class are dumb as nails! It is ssooo easy! She is very into pleasing the class and will work with you on anything. You know exactly what is going to be on the tests. If you do not want to go up infront of the class to do short assign. don't pick this class.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: HIS396
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This is the worst class I've taken since I've been here. She tries as hars as possible to NOT teach, I haven't learned anything yet, and her grading is insane and arbitrary. If you want your soul sucked out slowly, take her. If not, then please dont.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: HIS411
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Oh my goodness she's awesome and you MUST take her class, whoever said that she's a bad professor is insane, Lim rocks man. She's smart and really down to earth, definitely take her class