Quality 2/5Difficulty 3/5
Online lectures are outdated and dull. Focus on the readings instead, the lectures basically repeat them verbatim. Not an engaging class. You'll pass, though.Rate My Professors ↗
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Kyung-Sun Kim
What students say
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Quality 2/5Difficulty 5/5
My largest complaint was with the final assignment. When I received the grade on my final project (20+ pages) it was evident that only the final page was graded. I lost points for mistakes on the assignment that I didn't make. I emailed the professor a month ago asking for clarification and I still have not received a response.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 1/5Difficulty 5/5
AVOID Sunny for 651. Bone-dry lectures. Terrible communication. Discussions full of experienced librarians being totally lost. Sunny ignores questions about contradictory info & acts like things are self-evident. She makes up insane search strategies, e.g. associating "cattle" with cats. Sunny clearly has no recent LIS experience. Awful; run away.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 5/5Difficulty 2/5
Sunny is a great professor. You end up learning a lot after you finish her assignments & they never feel unnecessary. She cares about you understanding the material and loves answering questions in class. Gave us a couple of weeks off for holidays & catching up on assignments as well. If she is being unclear, she happily clarifies if you ask herRate My Professors ↗
Quality 2/5Difficulty 4/5
Awful communication in this course. She tends to really overcomplicate assignment directions and then get mad when students either misconstrue the assignment or "make it too complicated" (her words). She's very direct and can be super harsh when students ask for help, meetings with her were always very intimidating.Rate My Professors ↗
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
She is knowledgeable, organized, and helpful. Her course covered quite complex stuff totally new to us, but at the end of the semester, I was pleasantly surprised to find out how much I had learned and enjoyed it. I did not expect this because the course was known to be tough, but now I am a convert. Whatever she did worked!Rate My Professors ↗
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Classes with Kyung-Sun Kim
LIS 603 introduces research, evaluation, and assessment practices for information professionals, covering project design and data analysis.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.75 GPA, 92.9% A/AB (n=28 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.57 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026LIS 668 covers core concepts and new developments in digital curation, preservation, and digital collections.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.70 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.68 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.85 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=17 letter grades).
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2026LIS 990
Research and Thesis
1–9 creditsLIS 990 provides dissertation credits for research and thesis work.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
No recorded grade history
LIS 999
Independent Reading and Research
1–4 creditsLIS 999 is an independent reading and research course where students conduct concentrated work on a self-selected subject and submit a final product.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2022–Spring 2025 · limited sampleRecorded teaching history
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