Medical Sociology - Fall 2025
University at Albany, SUNY | Instructor | Response Rate: 56.76%

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on health, illness, and healthcare systems. We examine how social factors influence health outcomes and healthcare access.

Course Evaluation
My Score
Department Average

"Wonderful professor and hands down my favorite class. Material was stimulating and Prof. Lee was exceptional!"

"Heeyoung Lee is an amazing professor. He genuinely cares for his students and has their best interests. I always look forward to his lectures because the content is often super interesting and he makes it interactive for students. But not in a dreadful way, in a fun, motivating way that makes you want to participate. He takes his students' feedback very seriously and I honestly couldn't have asked for a better professor for this course!"

"Very fun, engaging, interesting class. I preferred the class discussions compared to group ones, as it seemed like more students were comfortable adding their opinions and thoughts when it was a free-for-all"

"He is an extremely kind and considerate professor that makes lecture enjoyable to attend. I have signed up for another course taught by him because I like his way of conducting class."

"Thank you for a great semester!"

"I enjoyed the class"

"Great professor and class!"

"I loved this professor. He was very personable, friendly, and easy to communicate with. He always made sure that students' voices were heard and had a chance to share opinions and thoughts in class. I would easily take 1000 more courses with him."

"I enjoyed this class very much!"

"Great Professor!! His lectures are easy to understand and his exams reflect material that we learned in class. I also like how he interacts with his students and ask them how they are doing or just general conversation."

"It was a wonderful class to be apart of and hope be in many other classes taught by this professor"

"Heeyoung Lee is a great professor! This semester I had a lot of grad student professors and professor Lee was definetly my favorite out of all of them. He runs class is a really laid back way while still teaching all of the content really well. He's just a cool guy overall and I really appreciate that he gives us writing assignments that are challenging."

"Great Class"

"Graded attendance that is only taken once a week feels like a cruel trick, especially when I miss one day of class for the week but show up to the other, because I will be getting no credit for being there at least one time. Heeyoung Lee is a fantastic instructor, he takes great care to read the mood of the room and the students to tell if the day ought wrap up earlier or if we are all focused. His slides are pretty wordy but that's okay, because he doesn't speak straight off the slides but instead synthesizes the information to be communicated verbally. I would recommend him as a sociology instructor and will look to take a class with him again in the future."

Medical Sociology - Spring 2025
University at Albany, SUNY | Instructor | Response Rate: 66.36%

This course introduces students to sociological perspectives on health, illness, and healthcare systems. We examine how social factors influence health outcomes and healthcare access.

Course Evaluation
My Score
Department Average

"Very good teacher. Loved that he was interactive with students and would ask questions and change the course off feedback he received"

"My absolute favorite professor by far, he cares so much about his students and makes sure that everything is explained. always makes sure that everyone is comfortable, beyond understanding."

"He is amazing! He communicates his expectations very clearly, makes the content easy to understand but still challenges us to think, prepares us well for exams, has a good class format! I love his class and would easily take another class with this professor."

"Amazing class. The professor genuinely is so kind and understanding. The course was taught very well and I understood everything. I thought this class was going to be boring but the professor made it interesting with his personality. Everything was explained well and he made me excited to come to class and learn! If I could I'd take another class with this professor!!"

"This course was not necessarily a topic I am extremely interested in, but the professor made me want to show up to class every day. He was engaging and interesting. He presented the material in a way that made it fun to learn. His lectures showed his passion for the topic and made me want to know."

"Expectations were always clear, updates at the start of classes were great, and the material was interesting with conversations of our class size. This was a good classroom setup for this class for me personally."

"Professor was open to feedback throughout the course and applied feedback when it was given, he upheld a positive environment and made it easy to learn."

"I really enjoyed this class and didn't find it too challenging for being a 300-level course. I think your teaching style is easy to follow, and I appreciate the cheat sheets for exams as it takes off a lot of pressure."

"This course helped deepen my perspective on medical injustices in our society and brought forth new complex ideas about sociology that I want to help further research. The professor taught this course with such a calm demeanor, truly taking time to engage."

Medical Sociology - Fall 2024
University at Albany, SUNY | Instructor | Response Rate: 56.16%

This course examines the social contexts of health, illness, and healthcare. Students explore how social factors influence the distribution of illness and healthcare systems.

Course Evaluation
My Score
Department Average

"Professor Lee was so caring for every student in his class, always came to class ready to teach, and you can tell he was excited to teach. He truly cares about sociology and educating the next generation. Great guy and very understanding during his lectures."

"Amazing, understanding, challenging but doable, and overall a great class"

"I found the professor to be excellent. He was very understanding of his students and open to the different perspectives shared by my peers. He consistently helped us succeed in the course and sought our feedback on how he could improve his teaching."

"He is a great professor and very receptive to students ideas. I love how much he opens discussion. He is also the first professor who has explained how to read a graph to me and has backed up what he is saying with statistics for almost all the course content. Other professors have used graphs but he is the only one to explain what the graph means and how to read it. He also taught us how to create our own graph, which was very cool."

"Professor Lee is very nice and always available to help his students. He is also a great Professor who loves the material he teaches and is very helpful when you don't understand the concepts."

"I had a great time in your class, and it furthered my interest in sociology!!"

"Professor Lee was a great professor and made the lectures very fun and interactive to the point that difficult topics were understood well"

"Always helpful and happy to provide you with the tools for success"

"Worked with class to help improve grades. Cheat sheet not only helped me during exam but it was a helpful study guide. Good communication in email responses."

"Great good class topics included racial point of views which is much appreciated"

"Thank you so much, he is a amazing professor and I love his class!"

"Overall the class and the instructor were what I expected them to be. I found that Lee was very open to the suggestions of his students which I found to be very refreshing. I also was taught more about several topics (i.e., minority stress theory, education and health, etc) which I have a personal and professional interest in. While most of the course material was quite dull, Lee did his best to make it enjoyable and I think he succeeded."

"Great professor, he was very interested in the topic and that reflected in his work ethic and the way he engaged with all of us in the classroom. He also had very engaging topics that were very detailed."

"Thank you for an interesting and great class this semester!"

"Great professor, made content understable. very clear and fair with grading and expectations."

"Great Job teaching, thank you!"

Medical Sociology - Summer 2024
University at Albany, SUNY | Instructor | Response Rate: 19.23%

This intensive summer online course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to medical sociology with focused exploration of how social factors influence health outcomes.

Course Evaluation
My Score
Department Average

"I liked that video lectures and slideshows were provided"

"The lecture memos were the most useful part of the course for me, as they required me to actively engage with the video lectures by taking notes and summarizing the main points rather than just passively consuming the information, which greatly improved my understanding and retention of the material."

"I am glad i took this course. I learned more than expected and Professor Lee was helpful."

Criminology - Fall 2025
University at Albany, SUNY | Instructor | Response Rate: 62.50%

This course provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice. Students explore theories explaining criminal behavior, examine patterns of crime, and analyze the criminal justice system's response to crime. The course emphasizes the social contexts of crime and the ways in which structural factors influence criminal behavior and criminal justice outcomes.

Course Evaluation
My Score
Department Average

"Incredibly kind and understanding professor. Very interesting material and kept students engaged with lectures and videos. Very clear guidelines for assignments and test. Thank you for a great semester!"

"Heeyoung Lee was a fantastic teacher that really prioritized our education. He puts in effort to show certain statistics about our test grades giving us insight on how to improve. I would 100% take a different course with the same teacher knowing he puts in as much effort as he does."

"Hes mad funny"

"He's an excellent professor! and takes in our feedback and criticism very well."

"I might be in the minority here, but simply in response to what others in the class have been saying about readings and the final project, I didn't find the readings to be too overbearing or the project to be too much. I do think it works better as 3-5 than 5-7, but I dont think you should have to remove or make the assignment easier. Overall, even though this class was an elective for me, you did a good job making it enjoyable and engaging which I appreciate."

"great teacher overall, thank you:)"

"I enjoyed Heeyoung Lee's class because his appreciation on the subject and its contents flowed into the material and coursework, making it easier to understand. Overall great professor, and had a fun way of relaying lectures to students."

Criminology - Summer 2025
University at Albany, SUNY | Instructor | Response Rate: 14.81%

This course provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice. Students will explore theories explaining criminal behavior, examine patterns of crime, and analyze the criminal justice system's response to crime. The course emphasizes the social contexts of crime and the ways in which structural factors influence criminal behavior and criminal justice outcomes.

Topics covered include classical and contemporary criminological theories, social correlates of crime, crime trends and patterns, policing, courts, corrections, and criminal justice policy. Special attention will be given to how factors such as race, class, and gender shape experiences with crime and the criminal justice system.

Course Evaluation
My Score
Department Average