As a professor:
Honestly speaking Dr Mehdizadeh is a good professor. She is REALLY clear and she teaches REALLY useful writing skills. I still use what she taught me in my other classes. After learning from her for a quarter you can see yourself improved in writing. And of course she can see that too, and she takes into great account your participation and improvement, so do the readings, be active in class, and put effort in your essays. This is good especially for those incoming international students with a not-so-strong English background (like me myself lol).

Dr Mehdizadeh also cares a lot about her students. I remember during the first class she said that she would try to memorize everyone's name and two days later during the second class, she did memorize everyone's name correctly. She also welcomes questions and she responds to emails fairly quickly.

As a class:
And here's the BUT. This class is by no means easy. You'll have weekly assignments starting from week one, together with required readings for every class. The readings are absolutely REQUIRED not only because you'll need them to write your essays, but also because she asks for annotations on every article and she'll check them. She also assigns two essays, one due in the middle of the quarter and one due at the end. She has schedules individual appointments prior to those due dates and you need to bring your drafts to her. This teaching style does help you improve along the way but it pretty much keeps you rolling through the entire quarter, which can be very stressful.

In a word, it's great class with a ton of work to do. I'd say I struggled through it but I don't regret taking this class. So decide for yourself and good luck studying :)

She was very rude to me and I know she didn't like me. I asked her a question about the work and the class and all she said was, "Look at the syllabus," Excuse Me. I looked at the syllabus every single day and it still doesn't answer my question. I had my friend as her the same question and she answered her nicely. She was too broad in what she asked of me, not very helpful at all. Had a very hostile relationship with her. I did not like the class at all. Expects WAY too much.

This class was ridiculously workload. I thinkI am a good writer but she literally criticized everything saying I had a lot to work on. She discouraged me a lot and I would even go to the writing center to get feedback on my essays and the blogs we had to do every week and they said my writing was good. I like overwriting and doing more than what is expected. The blogs had to do with diversity and traveling which is a good topic and so you basically have to go and explore LA. I talked to a student in the class and his blog was literally like three sentences and he got an A. I wrote about 10 sentences and received a D. And I was literally so upset, I went to her office hours and she didn't explain anything about what was wrong. All she said was that I needed more "detail". I had other students read my work and they said the same thing. She's an incredibly hard grader and expects way too much. I understand that we are constantly learning and becoming better writers but this was way over the top.

I took Dr. Mehdizadeh's class in 2015 Fall and received an easy A. I agree her class are challenging, but her topics are interesting. I have one friend that took another Engcomp 3 class and all he did was writing essays about the history of LA. For Dr. Mehdizadeh's class you can write anything that's related to the concept of multi-culture and diversity. This is essentially helpful if you come from a diverse family or culture background. Honestly I don't think the class is that hard, I am an international student and English is not even my native language, yet I manage to get an A. So if you actually work and read, you will be fine. Would recommend this class, professional professor, interesting topic and good class environment.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!!!! LISTEN TO ME PLEASE. In the summer during my Orientation I picked this class because there was very limited english comp 3 classes and i made a terrible mistake. I did summer school also and i had a 4.0 GPA. I am extremely studious and social and Dr. Mehdizadeh seemed to have really liked me and i liked the class. The class was cool but it is extremely hard and stressful for no reason. If you already enrolled look at the syllabus she will send it really late and trust me ALL the work on there, you will do. This was the class that made me stay up late all nights as i had HW due everyday but the weekends and Tuesday. This quarter i took Math< enthomusicology Jazz and this class with a fiat lux and i received A's in all classes and a C in this one. I never missed an assignment i took all my essays to the writing center etc. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! Forget what everyone else says trust me. The class is fun but its fun with consequences. Hope i was able to help.

Dr. Mehdizadeh is a very cool professor i really liked her as a person, but in class, my fellow classmates and I didn't really like it. Dont get me wrong her class is probably the best english class i have been in throughout my life just being a freshman in college, but the workload is RIDICULOUS. It is not the traditional 3 essays then you are done. Her class is set up with a lot of readings that require annotations to show that you actually did it and each reading you have to give a summary etc. This class was a little stressful, but it was the only class i didn't fall asleep in all quarter. All her essays revolve around you and your input, which i loved about the class. We had 5 blogs due every friday, and the final project is worth 40% of the grade. The class is definitely doable but you gotta work for it. I did everything like EVERYTHING last second (even the final that was do yesterday) and still managed to scrape A's here and there. So take the class if it seems interesting but know that it is alot of work. She is a great proffessor!

Dr. Mehdizadeh is the first professor that I had at UCLA and I thoroughly loved her class. It was challenging but thought provoking and it could honestly be fun. We all became very comfortable with each other and shared our honest opinions about the texts we read. It was a discussion based class with Dr. Mehdizadeh guiding us through the texts. Professor Mehdizadeh gives great feedback on her essays and is very helpful in office hours. I would recommend Dr. Mehdizadeh for English Comp 3. Her class has been one of my favorites while I have been at UCLA.