Reviews of professor Karim Alizadeh

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Honestly, this class was pretty basic. Lecture slides every class. BUT Karim is a pretty top notch guy. He's always in a good mood and making jokes (not the best ones but he tries.) He is SUPER into what he's teaching too, and always answers questions. When I emailed him w/ questions, he gave me paragraphs for each thing. He is the reason I passed

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
DO NOT TAKE THIS AS GEN ED, I regret it!!! His class is based solely on quizzes, exams, and two assignments and the whole class is only worth 100 points. He does give a study guide for the quizzes and exams, but you have study a lot to do well. He does not give extra credit, so whatever you get on your quizzes and exams is your grade. good luck

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is really passionate about what he does. Although he grades only a few things, the tests and quizzes are not hard by any means. The class was solely based on lectures, and his slides were packed with information, but he only tests you over the basics. Overall nice and caring guy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Most GenEd classes at GVSU seem to be classical lecture-heavy listen, take notes. THIS MAN IS AMAZING. HE is SO PASSIONATE about the course materials. Every week in his quiet, soft spoken excitement he unpacks the slides and shares the wonders of the distant past. IMHO he is a riveting lecturer and his syllabus tells you exactly what to expect!!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Alizadeh is clearly very passionate about his teaching, but the lectures were rather boring and repetitive. You could honestly make do with never showing up to class. We had papers due every other week on just summarizing material from the textbook. Fairly easy to pass if you put in some work, but I didn't really learn a thing.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
nice guy, but graded by so few things it's impossible to get an A unless anthropology is your PASSION

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very knowledgeable and passionate professor. He is accommodating and fair if you show you really care about his class. I would highly recommend him. He is professional and interesting to listen to.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Teacher is very smart. He gives you very long videos to watch, and lots of reading. I read about two pages every 3 weeks and I have an A. You really do not have to do much at all to pass this class. I do not read chapters, I do not watch lectures. Prof is great though. Smart and nice.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Pretty much solely graded by exams, long lectures of simply reading slides.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dudes obviously super smart and very knowledgeable on the material, but the lectures are incredibly boring. As somebody whos awful at science this class was going to be hard. If youre into anthropology Im sure youll enjoy him, but this class wasnt for me so I dropped it after 4 weeks.