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Nahid Ahmadian
ENGL101 Expecting an A+ Recs_Warnings 06/10/2024 |
HIGHLY REC Honestly, she’s a great teacher! I took this class (engl101) in spring 2024, and I really don’t understand all the negative reviews. Her teaching style is pretty straightforward and consists of three main things: Class discussion: Usually, there is a reading from the textbook, and for the majority of the class we discuss it, first in pairs then with the whole class. She typically gives us around 5 minutes for the pair discussion, which can also be used to re-read/skim over the text. Then, we discuss it as a class (she highlights/repeats the important parts many times, so even if you forgot to read you’d be fine). This is all ungraded and purely to make sure we understand the text. Outlining assignments: We go over each assignment. Here’s the important part and the BEST tip I can think of— take notes. She tells you all the parts you need for EACH paragraph, down to the sentence and order. Follow that to a T and you will get an A. She even writes the breakdown on the board! I wish my other teachers did that. She repeats the important parts many times too, typically in class discussions, in case you missed them. Discussion posts and feedback: we do peer reviews and she gives individual feedback. Listen to it and ask questions if you’re unsure. She’s really nice and will take the time to make sure everything’s clear. Overall, take her if you can, she’s a good teacher. (I’m even going to take her next fall in a different class— if that doesn’t prove my review I don’t know what will!) |
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Nahid Ahmadian
ENGL101 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 06/03/2024 |
Honestly, she’s a great teacher! I took this class (engl101) in spring 2024, and I really don’t understand all the negative reviews. Her teaching style is pretty straightforward and consists of three main things: Class discussion: Usually, there is a reading from the textbook, and for the majority of the class we discuss it, first in pairs then with the whole class. She typically gives us around 5 minutes for the pair discussion, which can also be used to re-read/skim over the text. Then, we discuss it as a class (she highlights/repeats the important parts many times, so even if you forgot to read you’d be fine). This is all ungraded and purely to make sure we understand the text. Outlining assignments: We go over each assignment. Here’s the important part and the BEST tip I can think of— take notes. She tells you all the parts you need for EACH paragraph, down to the sentence and order. Follow that to a T and you will get an A. She even writes the breakdown on the board! (I wish my other teachers did that.) She repeats the important parts many times too, typically in class discussions, in case you missed them. Discussion posts and feedback: We do peer reviews and she gives individual feedback. Listen to it and ask questions if you’re unsure. She’s really nice and will take the time to make sure everything’s clear. As for the discussion posts- give an effort and you'll get full points. Overall, take her if you can, she’s a good teacher. (I’m even going to take her next fall in a different class— if that doesn’t prove my review I don’t know what will!) |
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Nahid Ahmadian
ENGL101 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/10/2024 |
Her class is really easy, just excruciatingly boring. Participation is mandatory and you only get one free skip. If you miss another class you need to get a doctor's note or something. There are readings that we are supposed to read before class, but once in the class we read it again, so there is no point in reading beforehand. We had to turn and talk about the material basically every class and then respond to a discussion board post. If you're somewhat decent at writing then this is the teacher for you. It's tedious, but she grades generously and if you show up you get participation points. |
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Nahid Ahmadian
ENGL101 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/25/2024 |
Professor Ahmadian is a kind, gentle, and thoughtful woman. However, not a great professor. For one, she wasn't great at explaining assignments leaving us to have to figure it out among ourselves, using the syllabus, and often just guessing on what we're supposed to write (she's not a super tough grader so this turned out okay for most). Furthermore, she never left actual feedback on any of the assignments I turned in, making it really difficult for me to know what to improve. As for her lectures, her style of lecturing is really un-engaging, often reading straight from the slides. When she asks the class questions, they're often really confusion questions searching for a specific response and any response that differs from that is just wrong. Lastly, she definitely picks favorites. All in all, ENGL101 is just a class you have to get through so she didn't really impact my experience too much but I would go with a different professor if I could choose again. |
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Nahid Ahmadian
ENGL101 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/18/2023 |
This teacher ruined my life. Grades way harder than any other english101 teacher and assignment word counts are way longer. Any other English's teacher is better. You would learn more about english if you read green eggs and ham. |
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Nahid Ahmadian
ENGL101 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/13/2022 |
i dont understand the bad reviews for this prof. her assignments are rly easy, in class activities are graded for completion. reasonable grading. accommodating to peoples needs. doesnt rly announce due dates in advance tho which is annoying but whatever. 6 mini projects that are about a topic you get to pick. no exams. do the work and get an A+ |
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Nahid Ahmadian
ENGL101 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/08/2022 |
I loved her. She's super sweet and a pretty generous grader. We had 2 or 3 in class activities daily that would she would always grade for completion. She was very accommodating when people had to miss class. She wasn't the best at communicating due dates far enough in advance like I was used to from high school, but overall she's a really good person and I enjoyed her class. |
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Nahid Ahmadian
CMLT275 Expecting a B- Anonymous 01/13/2020 |
She is the worst professor I have ever had. She plays favorites and gets mad that her class is not #1 priority. Recommend to never take her. Very biased on her thoughts and didn't even let her students meet with her for the final presentation and paper outside of class. She was often unprepared and made us read erotic poetry, short stories and novels. I showed my mom the book we had to read and she was applaud that a professor would assign such a reading to her students. 0/10 would take the class again. |
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Nahid Ahmadian
CMLT275 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/19/2019 |
Least favorite professor I have ever had. She didn't just play favorites, she treated students who she felt didn't work hard enough disrespectfully. I have never been so frustrated by an individual in my life. She grades purely off of emotions. As someone who got an A- in English 101, I know that I am not a terrible writer. Was I the best writer in the class no, but my writing was better than some of the grades I received. This class made me feel like less of a feminist. Some of the stories and novels she forced us to read were absurd. I hope to never have a class with her again and if I do I will be switching out. |
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Nahid Ahmadian
ENGL101 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 10/23/2019 |
Really sweet professor, but the class itself has many issues. Assigns readings that we then read again in class and discuss (redundant), class is boring. Asks unnecessary questions about the readings, that have nothing to do at all. She also has many grammatical errors and spellings in her own work when this is an English class (you would not expect a math professor to mess up 2+2), and class is somewhat unstructured. She grades pretty well and is a very sweet person to talk to but not as a professor. |