[HIST 0232]
Modern China

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Professor: Wyatt D

Value of Course / Overall Score

Not Much (14.3%
Average (42.9%)
Valuable (42.9%)

Material

Friendly (28.6%)
Average (0%)
Competitive (71.4%)

Class Atmosphere

Boring (28.6%)
Average (42.9%)
Fascinating (28.6%)

Prep Time Needed

1-2hr (42.9%)
3-5hr (57.1%)
6-8hr (0%)
9-11hr (0%)
12+ hr (0%)

Grade Weighting

Harder (28.6%)
Average (0%)
Easier (71.4%)

Adequate Assistance

Yes (85.7%)
No (14.3%)

Would Recommend Class

Yes (57.1%)
No (42.9%)

Evaluation Comments for Wyatt D

  1. One of the most worthwhile classes I've taken at Midd so far. Don't take the class if you're obsessed with a perfect GPA but if you ARE interested in understanding the China of today, you'll come away with a lot of valuable knowledge and insight. Personally I liked the prof; he's eccentric but hilariously so sometimes and is perfectly nice and approachable if you need help. There's a lot of reading, but if you take good notes from the lectures, you can get away with not doing all of it. He's a tough grader but gives review sheets with everything you need to know which makes studying pretty straightforward. On exams, PROVIDE DATES for everything and especially on IDs give all the details you can remember about the topic.
  2. How this man became the chair of his department is beyond me. Plain and simple: he was the worst teacher I have ever had. I am going back to high school and everything, folks. He is the absolute worst! Not only does he take forever to hand back what few assignments we turn in, but he grades extremely harshly and his handwriting is so bad that you can't even figure out why you didn't get an A. The worst thing about him is his "lectures" and I do use that term loosely. The man reads a speech word-for-word every class. He doesn't look up from his paper, he just reads. I wish he would have emailed us his speech and not force us to listen to his boring voice read it. BEWARE WYATT!! DO NOT TAKE HIS COURSES!! YOU WILL BE SORRY AND/OR SUICIDAL IF YOU DO!!
  3. Wyatt's teaching style is straight up lecture - reading notes. However, after a few classes you get use to it and really enjoy what he is lecturing about. Wyatt knows pretty much everything about China and if you really study your notes you will come out fine on the exams. He is also a great guy and very helpful.
  4. I have no idea why so many people do not like Don Wyatt. In his own quirky way, he is one of the funniest people you will ever meet. It is also hard to find anyone who knows more than he does about China. His lectures, although always the same format, are interesting and extremely well organized. Long live Don J Wyatt!!
  5. The content of this class is extremely interesting and useful for understanding China in a political and economic sense. However, the teacher's style is extremely monotonous and can be very boring. Every day you sit in the class for an hour and fifteen minutes as he reads a speech he has previously prepared. You must take copious amounts of notes. The tests are extremely hard and you are responsible for every single fact you have ever learned in the course. But to be fair Prof. Wyatt is a nice guy who doesn't grade that hard at the end of the class. I enjoyed the class but dont think that i could sit through his class for another semester.
  6. Quite possibly the worst teacher in the entire school. He literally brings a script to class each lesson and reads it out word-for-word (!!!) for 45 minutes. EVERY. SINGLE. LESSON. He then ends with a smirk and asks "Any questions for today?" by which time all of us are completely numbed out by the completely unenriching droning and our wrists in great pain from the continuous writing of whatever he said. And even what he says isn't in the least insightful - mostly just what you could have read off wikipedia. In fact on the occasions that I looked up wikipedia I noticed that he often used the exact same phrasing as in wikipedia - most curious. Only redeeming factor in this nightmare of a course - there is extremely little work. He has only one midterm and one final (both of which will depend on how well you were able to copy down and then memorize everything he said), one "Term Paper" (on which he offers ZERO guidance) and one "Video Exercise" (you watch a boring 30 year old video and answer some wholly unstimulating questions on it). And for the CW req you will only need to do one additional "Video Exercise." So take it only if you are in desperate need of fulfilling the requirements and want little work.
  7. Wyatt's "lectures" consist of him reading pages of notes he typed in his office prior to the class. Unless you plan on doing the required reading (which is actually quite interesting), plan on writing down everything he says, because the tests are straight from his "lectures." The entire class, in fact, from lectures to exams, consists of writing a lot in little time, so also plan on some forearm soreness and perhaps treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome. The material is fascinating, however, and you'll learn a lot.

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