Babak Fotouhi

This professor has taught: INST155, INST314, INST414, INST447, INST462

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Babak Fotouhi INST155 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/28/2023	Didn't watch a single lecture or read any of the readings. Got a 105% in the course.
Babak Fotouhi INST155 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/18/2023	Would 100% recommend this class if you need to fill 2 gen-ed requirements. It was asynchronous and online. There were 15 total assignments (5 quizzes, 5 homework, 5 projects). All the assignments have word counts of 50 or less. You will get full credit if you follow the instructions under the assignments. He responded to emails quickly and clears up any questions you have on the course. I found the homework and project assignment prompts interesting even though they had nothing to do with the lectures. The lectures are boring but you do not need to watch them to do the homework and projects. The quizzes are hard if you do not watch the lectures but there is no time limit on the quizzes so you can look up the answers.
Babak Fotouhi INST314 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/26/2023	Overall this professor is ok and you are most likely gonna get an A as long as you do the work. However, he didn't begin to post any real work until weeks into the semester and then begins to dogpile them near the end. It would be better if he spread them out and kept them relevant to the week's lectures instead of having them all cumulative. Also, assignments are graded very late whereas assignments from weeks ago haven't been graded. There are no exams just R exercises, hw and quizzes (This semester was online and async and discussion was optional so it might be different in person)
Babak Fotouhi INST155 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/17/2023	Course has little to do with actual social media. It's more about why social media is bad and information. But, there was only like 1 assignment every other week. All the homework and projects are very easy and will get 100%. The quizzes are hard and need to watch lectures for them.
Babak Fotouhi INST155 Expecting an A Anonymous 03/13/2023	I have learned next to nothing from this course. Fotouhi's lectures are unclear and say so much without actually saying anything. There were no assignments until after the course adjustment period, which is a huge red flag. The exams and quizzes are difficult since, again, the lectures are poorly organized and mostly unhelpful. However, there is very little time requirement for this class, which is helpful for those taking a heavy courseload. Overall, it is pretty easy, but unless it's required for your major, find a less mind-numbing online class.
Babak Fotouhi INST155 Expecting a W Anonymous 01/23/2023	lowkey this shit a cake walk.
Babak Fotouhi INST314 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/07/2022	Supposedly this is one of the more challenging courses for Info Sci, but take my word and take it online with this Professor. He may be a little hard to understand sometimes on recorded lecturers but offers lots of extra credit and has been responsive to student feedback when instructions/lectures were unclear by extending deadlines or providing in depth tutorials for R studios. I’m expecting over a 100%.
Babak Fotouhi INST314 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 06/10/2022	Babak’s lectures are very basic. The guy is brilliant though. Some of the concepts he taught were in some of my interview questions. He has great potential to be an amazing lecturer. He’s certainly one of the smartest professors I’ve had. The TA had pretty bad grammar so at times I’d get questions wrong simply because they made no sense.
Babak Fotouhi INST155 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/05/2022	This course was not at all what I expected. Additionally, the professor does not care about his students AT ALL and doesn't ever check emails. The class is a mix of a bunch of random things tbh. Find another elective. This one isn't as easy as it appears.
Babak Fotouhi INST155 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/20/2021	Class was not what was expected. His online lectures were very slow and you had to go in 2x speed to get to a reasonable pace. Nothing related to social media but instead how interactions are structured. Also seemed to give up towards the end of course where the curriculum shifted into various documentaries and discussion posts. Also grade weight is backloaded where there are two projects due within the last few weeks.
Babak Fotouhi INST155 Anonymous 12/04/2021	DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!! This professor had the entire class fooled when he didn't post any assignments until AFTER the drop/add period. When he finally started to post assignments, the class was nothing like we thought it was. Do not expect this to be an easy gen ed requirement and I advise anyone considering to simply find something else. He goes off on tangents in his lectures and they're usually around an hour long. He talks so slow that 2x speed is barely normal speed. Not only that, but his quizzes and the material in the class is just too advanced for an 100 level class. This class was a waste of time, the quizzes are ambiguous and it barely scratches the surface of the actual course description.
Babak Fotouhi INST155 afriasia_adonia 12/01/2021	The professor was not accommodating to students' needs or schedules because all of the videos did not have closed captions or transcripts that would've made it easier for students to take notes from the videos and make them accessible for disabled students without having to request another ADS accommodation. The videos were also way too long and the professor didn't understand that his class wasn't the only one that students were taking and completing assignments for. When responding to student emails, he was rude and condescending and attempted to deflect, and wouldn't answer questions fully. The majority of the material in the latter portion of the course was mainly documentaries that were at least an hour long and the quizzes on the lectures were ambiguous and asked about details that weren't important to our learning. Uses lengthy explanations for seemingly simple concepts (a 15-page document for one project and a 20-minute video for another project) and takes way too long to get to an important point that we should be learning.
Babak Fotouhi INST155 Anonymous 11/21/2021	He doesn't even teach in the latter portion of the course, he just posts an hour plus documentaries for us to watch. The quizzes are ambiguous and the questions are about unimportant details in the documentaries. I originally took this class because of the fact that the course description sounds interesting, but I can not understand how a person could make a class about social media so boring and useless. This class is just a waste of time.
Babak Fotouhi INST414 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 07/21/2021	Absolutely solid professor. Took this class during the summer semester (online), and he posted ~3hrs of lectures per week. He grades super lightly, but the grading criteria is vague and he doesn't seem to provide any feedback for improvements. Gave lots of extra credit. I would 100% take him again.