Elham Saeidinezhad

Varies a lot depending on how the structure of the course changes; overall not high

Light. Quizzes (Chat GPTable), midterm, final, stock trading assignment.

Attendance (taken at random) - 10% Probanker project (graded for completion) - 10% Midterm - 40% Final - 40% There were no problem sets and the workload was easy, but still is not worth the professor.

She has a lot of passion which illuminated the course content and also was able to explain very complex subjects in simple terms that made it easy to understand; that being said I found the course as well as the prof slightly unorganized and unpredictable. The final paper is completely on ur own without any sort of formal guidance, and you are expected to have an idea of ur research topic from the moment of the first day of classes. But the grading is fair

She honestly sucks. The class is pretty easy overall and the workload is light. Most people spend their class texting friends or doing some other homework assignment. She spends 90% of the class talking about things that are not part of the curriculum and you won't see on the exams. My biggest issue with this class is that she curves down. Because it's so easy, everyone gets really high grades (our midterm median was a 92 and the upper quartile was 100, meaning 25% of the class got 100s on the midterm) so even if you do really well, you can still face a B, B+, or A- for a super high grade. She also insanely prefers her male students which people have said before but I really saw it this semester. She personally reached out to a male student who never attends class and offered him extra credit for a presentation meanwhile I have attended every class and she never answers my email asking for extra credit opportunities. Yeah its an easy class and light workload but not sure if it's worth it tbh.

I was really looking forward to this course, and even planned on taking more of Professor Saeidinezhad's classes the next semester. After taking this course, I can confidently say that I would rather drop out of school than take another class with her. This was single-handedly the absolute worst educational experience I have had in my 10+ years of undergraduate education. I attended a rural community college in one of the poorest states in the country, and every professor I had there was infinitely better than this professor. She is extremely unorganized, will spend weeks on irrelevant topics, she sows confusion and discord in the class, posts unclear and contradicting practice exam questions. The midterm exam itself had 9 questions, 5 of which were factually incorrect or lacked essential information. When confronted with student feedback, she deflected blame and insisted that it was our fault that the entire class did not understand her nonsensical questions. I would NEVER recommend this professor to anyone. Please please please do yourself a favor and avoid this professor like the plague. You will thank me later.

The class is pretty low effort, most people play videogames in the class.

TLDR: Incompetent af. I was actually quite looking forward to this class. I am generally interested in financial concepts and markets. I had a look at her syllabus which was well organized and seemed like a very hands on experience. HOWEVER, the professor is truly not great: “I’ve never been in a class where the professor forgets her own train of thought halfway through a sentence quite so often. One minute, she’s talking about the time value of money, and the next, she’s staring off into space as though she’s trying to recall what course she’s even teaching. It’s borderline entertaining at first—but pretty frustrating when you actually need to learn the material. She’s genuinely nice, I’ll give her that. But nice doesn’t always translate to organized. Class feels more like a series of random anecdotes than a structured financial economics curriculum. If you do take this class, be prepared to constantly sift through notes to figure out what’s important and what’s just her momentarily distracted ramblings. All in all, if you don’t mind a bit of confusion—and you’re okay with the occasional blank stare that lasts just long enough to make you wonder if she’s forgotten where she is—then this might be a memorable ride. But if you need crystal-clear explanations and a coherent lecture plan, you might want to keep looking. At least you’ll have plenty of stories to tell when it’s all…

Horrible horrible. Spends half of the time saying “this is going to be complicated, so it’s okay if you don’t understand” instead of explaining the concept itself. When she does explain, she likes to start with obscure details and doesn’t get to general understanding / main function of the financial instruments until later which makes it harder to understand. She also keep cold calling students for questions that she had not gone over to get students to think. While she believes this is effective, I honestly think it’s just a waste of time. She prefaces the questions with “I know you don’t know this, but I just want you to think,” which is fine if it’s to connect the dots we already have but most of the time she has not even provided us with those dots just yet.

The grading for this class is fairly easy, but the professor isn't great at teaching or explaining the material and only responds to emails in cases of absolute emergencies. As a result, I ended up having to just go over the powerpoints and teach myself everything.