Cynthia Gao

loved this class and this professor! my most valuable class at Middlebury. connected to all my other areas of study. Prof. Gao is enthusiastic, funny, and creative. everyone should take this class!!!!

Proffessor Gao is a wonderful person and is clearly very passionate about the course material! She is very accomodating to students needs and is helpful in office hours. However, I found her teaching style to be at times scattered and diffucult to follow. More specifically, she struggled to lead and moderate the class discussions, causing discussions on an otherwsie interesting topic to fall short as there wasn't much guidance by prof. Gao. The work was relativley easy but much of your grade is based on a few big assignments and weekly small papers that were somtimes tedious. Overall it was a fun class but I think it could have been far more engaging and valuable if prof. Gao adjusted some of her teaching strategies.

Proffessor Gao is a wonderful person and is clearly very passionate about the course material! She is very accomodating to students needs and is helpful in office hours. However, I found her teaching style to be at times scattered and diffucult to follow. More specifically, she struggled to lead and moderate the class discussions, ca …Read more

Professor Gao was very passionate about this material however I found her teaching style very hard to engage with. Additionally, our whole grade was based upon two exam which were not really talked about in class and graded hard.