Dr. Mehdizadeh is a great teacher. She is willing to help you and if you follow the instructions and complete all your work putting enough effort, then you should not have much difficulty getting an A in this class. You have two assignments per week which I thought wasn't bad at all but If you are not a strong advocate for social justice, some of the readings might feel boring. I personally don't think I was compatible with her but I still recommend people to take this class because everything was reasonable in terms of difficulty, workload and content.

Good class to take as a first-year for a G.E.. Very similar to high-level high school English classes but Dr. Mehdizadeh is engaging and good enough that it doesn't feel like a total waste of time. You will build good skills for writing that will help you throughout many different classes. The diversity aspect promotes interesting conversations without seeming shoe-horned in or overly forced. The weekly posts can be long, as you often have to read many articles and create lengthy posts. But if you stay on top of it, you should be good and you should have enough time to work on them.

Not only is Mehdizadeh a mediocre English professor at best, but she is also a terrible human being. Extremely unhelpful and, lacks a single compassionate bone in her body I sincerely hope she does not have kids, and if she does I feel extremely bad for them. Class isn't necessarily difficult and the workload isn't excessive but having to see such a condescending professor twice a week takes a toll on you in itself.

I recommend this class. :)

She's a really amazing professor. She actually wants you to learn and I feel in one quarter she managed to improve my writing a lot. There is a lot of work in this class with weekly submissions; however it is worth it and she is also considerably lenient on grading as long as you do your work regularly. Strongly recommend taking this class

What can I say? Mehdizadeh is awesome! She presents engaging topics during class and just let's the students really discuss and flesh them out. She provided us with topics before class and made us turn in a 250-word reflection journal on the topic, allowing us to get some thoughts stirring before we came in to discuss. The workload was kind of heavy, but it never felt like work for me. Don't take this class if you can't adapt to new ideas or respectfully debate with your peers, as that's the entire premise of this course.

Taking this class with Dr. Mehdizadeh was the best choice I have ever made! Dr. Mehdizadeh is a great lecturer, funny teacher, and always available to help you. She moves around her own schedule often to meet with students. The workload is a bit heavy, but not too difficult. You have three main papers — 2 page, 5-7 page, and your final project. And journals (250 words) that are due weekly. ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED, and the textbook is also required (but it’s cheap, but I recommend finding a PDF for it instead). Dr. Mehdizadeh is also incredibly funny and super intelligent and passionate in what she teaches. Take this class with her!!!

I really enjoyed this class. My friends who only took comp 3 said they had at least 4 essays and it had a lot of reading, but Mehdizadeh didn't work that way. She assigned readings for us to annotate and small research assignments, but I wouldn't complain about the HW load. Also she only had 2 essays for the whole quarter, none of which revolved around reading a book beforehand. It revolved around diversity of course. My favorite was that she gave us kinda a lot of freedom. There was a prompt but since it was vague, we were able to weave it and it let us write about stuff we wanted to research. Anyways she is really willing to help you and if you can, take this with her! (especially 3D, so much better than 3 b/c it fulfills the diversity requirement)

I took this class as an engineer in order to satisfy the English requirement, and choosing Mehdizadeh as the professor was the best decision I have made with respect to choosing my classes. She is by far the best. She is extremely helpful. She plans out the entire quarter and hands you a syllabus that serves as a calendar for you to be aware of what is due and when it is due. Everything is submitted on CCLE. You could essentially complete all the essays by the second week of class, and just revise as time passes. She does not grade anything until the final drafts are due at the end of the quarter, which is great because it allows for you to have ample time to ask her to revise or stuff like that. This leads me into my next point of her being very open to making appointments with her students to revise and/or answer questions. The work load is moderate to high; however, if you stay on top of it, submit rough drafts on time, and put a little effort into taking her recommendations for revising to heart, you will most definitely be guaranteed an A. I passed the class with over a 100% thanks to her extra credit essay. She doesn't give A+'s, though. If you have the chance, don't hesitate to take Mehdizadeh!