Avoid this professor at all costs. Ali pour is nice but she cannot lecture. She just reads off of all the slides, adds absolutely nothing. Sometimes she would barely go over a topic and say we didn't need to know details for the exam, then the exams would feature the same topic in great detail. This class had two professors, Dr. Hill and Ali Pour, Dr. Hill was great but if you want to take MIMG 101 and see Ali Pour as one of the professors I would not recommend taking it. It is very hard to learn from her and she is not understanding about honest mistakes like missing last-minute announcements/deadlines.

Studying for finals right now for the quarter and I find myself extremely frustrated with watching her lectures back. Dr. Ali Pour is sweet, knowledgeable, extremely kind and this is in no way a reflection on her character, but instead on her teaching ability. Part of me has felt that Dr. Ali Pour with English as her second language, struggled a lot to communicate these complex, tough ideas clearly. I can only imagine the difficulty in communicating these topics in your non-native language....and I think inclusion and equality is important and necessary and at the same time I feel extremely frustrated that my education (and many others have voiced frustration too) takes a hit because the professor can't articulate these things in a clear detailed fashion. Dr. Bradley taught the other half of the course and he is absolutely phenomenal and I recommend him 100%. Additionally, there would be multiple times where she would skim over something, keep flipping between slides rapidly, or skip some without saying anything...I don't know. You can tell she's doing her best, so I have to give her the benefit of the doubt, just sometimes it's hard to believe you're at the #1 public university in the nation when I'm constantly having to skip back to hear what is being said.

Don't get the book. Everything you need is covered in lecture and discussion. Dr. Ali Pour also supplied a free online version if you wanted to read up on more stuff. This was the first time the class went in-person. The first exam was online which was really hard and I got a B on it, the next one in person they allowed a 8x11 front and back note card which I wrote every single thing they said in lectures on it lol. Theyre allowing us a 8x11 note card for the final, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did away with this as they were letting us do this since it was the first time having in person exams in two years.

The tests were difficult. First test average was a 72, second one was a 67, (haven't taken the final yet) and they said they would curve so that a 70-74 would be a B-, 74.1-79 would be a B, 79.3 -82.9 a B+, 83-90 would be an A- and so forth for the end of year grades. I feel really bad for those who have to go in and take these tests without anything. If that is the case...you have to review these slides, lectures, discussion slides, office hours like your life depends on it. They are higher order questions as you'll learn. There were no multiple choice, T/F, just writing short answers to hard higher order questions. Good luck

I am usually very lazy to come here and write a review but this is a day before my final and I am so frustrated. I am rewatching Dr Ali Pour’s lectures and notice that very often she changes her sentence right in the middle of pronouncing it. Even after listening some topics for more than 10 times it is not possible to get what she means. This a horrible teaching that is getting emphasized as her partner Dr Bradley is brilliant. Why should I suffer because of the professor not being able to express her ideas clearly?

Dr. Pour’s lectures were fairly concise. She seemed to read off the slides a lot but that honestly was because the slides contained all of the conceptual information. The content was interesting and she’d incorporate real-world examples quite often.

The Gradescope midterm exams were not too challenging conceptually, but I and many students complained that the exams were too long — many people struggled to finish simply because the amount of time we were given was not sufficient. I extremely disliked how regrade requests were handled, as it was emphasized that putting in a regrade request would regrade your entire exam rather than a specific question, and that we may lose points — which is ridiculous, as it essentially sounds as if they are trying to discourage students from getting a fair grade.

Overall, I enjoyed the course with Dr. Pour this quarter, and hope and believe that it will be improved for future students.