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Elham Saeidinezhad
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Winter 2020 - Professor Elham S as a person is great and deserves all the appreciation but as a Professor, not. I had taken Economics Classes in High School but the credit didn't transfer and therefore for me, whether she completed one chapter of all the six chapters, didn't matter. She couldn't go through 6 Chapters or 300 Slides in 10 Weeks! All the students who will take Econ 11 after taking her Class will be unprepared and screwed. This Class has permanently hit my views on UCLA as a University and the incompetent Econ Department. Midterm 1 was extremely simple. (20 MCQs in 75 Minutes). However, thank God they screwed the printing of Midterm 2 or nobody in this Class would have scored even an A-. I don't know what happened to her and she changed track and made this incomprehensible, complex and difficult Midterm 2 that would make even a Ph.D. Student doubt his or her knowledge. The Final was of medium level difficulty and doable. The Mindtap Homework ($100 for no value) was graded for completion and there was a Blog that you had to write for which she sent hundreds of emails which no one even read. For an Econ 1 Class a Writing Assignment was a stretch maybe but I found it a refreshing and interesting exercise. Discussion Sections were compulsory and my TA Alex Coblins was great. Do not take this Class with her if you can, but if you have to, it's fine.
Winter 2020 - Professor Elham S as a person is great and deserves all the appreciation but as a Professor, not. I had taken Economics Classes in High School but the credit didn't transfer and therefore for me, whether she completed one chapter of all the six chapters, didn't matter. She couldn't go through 6 Chapters or 300 Slides in 10 Weeks! All the students who will take Econ 11 after taking her Class will be unprepared and screwed. This Class has permanently hit my views on UCLA as a University and the incompetent Econ Department. Midterm 1 was extremely simple. (20 MCQs in 75 Minutes). However, thank God they screwed the printing of Midterm 2 or nobody in this Class would have scored even an A-. I don't know what happened to her and she changed track and made this incomprehensible, complex and difficult Midterm 2 that would make even a Ph.D. Student doubt his or her knowledge. The Final was of medium level difficulty and doable. The Mindtap Homework ($100 for no value) was graded for completion and there was a Blog that you had to write for which she sent hundreds of emails which no one even read. For an Econ 1 Class a Writing Assignment was a stretch maybe but I found it a refreshing and interesting exercise. Discussion Sections were compulsory and my TA Alex Coblins was great. Do not take this Class with her if you can, but if you have to, it's fine.
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Fall 2019 - Let's start with I love learning economic concepts. I'm a first year student and this was my first college level economics course. I was super excited going into the course, but was very disappointed. The first thing that really disappointed me was the professor's unwillingness/inability to respond to emails. Nothing sent to her was ever responded to. In addition, the Professor was unwilling to wear a microphone, which wasn't a problem for me since I usually sat in the front row. However, the one time I sat in the second row, I could barely hear her. While she seemed to be a very kind person, she did not always understand the material that she was supposed to be teaching. Basic concepts such as how to calculate slope (change in Y over change in X) confused her. Furthermore, the class progressed at a much slower than usual pace. We barely went through half of the material on the original syllabus, causing much panic and worry from everyone in the class about whether or not we will be prepared for Econ 102. Moreover, she had prepared slides, but often had trouble with the computer in the room and ended up not using them a majority of the time. Although I did not go in to office hours to talk to her personally, I heard that she was very helpful on the one monetary policy assignment (worth 20% of the grade and graded primarily on grammar). Overall, the class was relatively slow paced, repetitive, and the concepts were pretty easy. However, be prepared that a majority of your learning is going to come from your TA (find the best one to make sure you really understand the concepts) since the professor tends to confuse topics and the textbook was pretty vague.
Fall 2019 - Let's start with I love learning economic concepts. I'm a first year student and this was my first college level economics course. I was super excited going into the course, but was very disappointed. The first thing that really disappointed me was the professor's unwillingness/inability to respond to emails. Nothing sent to her was ever responded to. In addition, the Professor was unwilling to wear a microphone, which wasn't a problem for me since I usually sat in the front row. However, the one time I sat in the second row, I could barely hear her. While she seemed to be a very kind person, she did not always understand the material that she was supposed to be teaching. Basic concepts such as how to calculate slope (change in Y over change in X) confused her. Furthermore, the class progressed at a much slower than usual pace. We barely went through half of the material on the original syllabus, causing much panic and worry from everyone in the class about whether or not we will be prepared for Econ 102. Moreover, she had prepared slides, but often had trouble with the computer in the room and ended up not using them a majority of the time. Although I did not go in to office hours to talk to her personally, I heard that she was very helpful on the one monetary policy assignment (worth 20% of the grade and graded primarily on grammar). Overall, the class was relatively slow paced, repetitive, and the concepts were pretty easy. However, be prepared that a majority of your learning is going to come from your TA (find the best one to make sure you really understand the concepts) since the professor tends to confuse topics and the textbook was pretty vague.
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Spring 2020 - Saeidinezhad is no longer teaching at UCLA so you don't have to worry about her. This was during the COVID-19 time period and she did not know how to adjust at all. Her lectures were her essentially reading the textbook verbatim. I did not spend any time on this class because how unmotivating it was and rather read the textbook. However, there were a couple clutch TAs that were very willing to help out which made it somewhat bearable. All her lectures were prerecorded so we never actually saw her. The exams had multiple mistakes and even the solution manual contradicted other things that were on the practice exam. Her midterms were 30 MCQ and her final was 100 MCQ and was easy enough. Her grading cutoffs were easy 95+ = A+ and 91+ = A. If she returns back to UCLA, I would strongly recommend not taking her (though you will get an easy A)
Spring 2020 - Saeidinezhad is no longer teaching at UCLA so you don't have to worry about her. This was during the COVID-19 time period and she did not know how to adjust at all. Her lectures were her essentially reading the textbook verbatim. I did not spend any time on this class because how unmotivating it was and rather read the textbook. However, there were a couple clutch TAs that were very willing to help out which made it somewhat bearable. All her lectures were prerecorded so we never actually saw her. The exams had multiple mistakes and even the solution manual contradicted other things that were on the practice exam. Her midterms were 30 MCQ and her final was 100 MCQ and was easy enough. Her grading cutoffs were easy 95+ = A+ and 91+ = A. If she returns back to UCLA, I would strongly recommend not taking her (though you will get an easy A)
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Fall 2019 - Interesting class, wrong professor to take it with. Most kids are IB kids so they know what they're talking about. This means averages are way higher for hard tests and it does not help that expectations on the tests arent discussed. Avoid taking it with her. She seems nice but is not the best professor
Fall 2019 - Interesting class, wrong professor to take it with. Most kids are IB kids so they know what they're talking about. This means averages are way higher for hard tests and it does not help that expectations on the tests arent discussed. Avoid taking it with her. She seems nice but is not the best professor
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