Reviews of professor Negin Hedayat

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Hedayat has really challenged me to bring out my inner artist. She will help you when you need it. She gives great feedback and will grade you based on your performance only. My technical skills have drastically improved with this class. Her subjective drawings are fun to do as well. She does give essays (just two) based on two museum visits.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She assigns A LOT. She would assign two paintings a week due the next week (sometimes less time than that) & she even assigned 8 paintings at once due the next week. She was rude & lacked empathy during this pandemic. She barely taught us at all, she just showed us videos & expected us to learn like that. Her required materials are EXPENSIVE too.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Hedayat had us paint 2 completed 12x16 oil paintings in 6 days, but would tell us on our thursday class (we had Tuesday/Thursday) that our painting should not be past the underpainting stage, and no one in my class ever got a 5/5 on anything. She was extremely vague with comments ex. too many brushstrokes made your painting etc.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Hedayat is the best art professor I've ever had. She teaches with passion and cares about her students. She inspired me to follow my dreams and although I was just a beginner, she never judged and helped me push my limits. Her classes are enjoyable, accessible and she's very funny. She works hard to help you succeed.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Wasnt a bad teacher, but definitely wasn't used to online learning. Because of covid, it was kind of hard to do, especially since you had to buy all the materials yourself and she wasn't very forgiving if you couldn't. a lot of paintings so you definitely will stay up late painting. she also normally doesn't give 100%'s and changes due dates.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Definitely a hard class. There is a lot of homework. Her feedback was kind of biased, she pushed students to paint similarly to the style she likes painting in. It wasn't hard to get an A. The class was okay, but I would go for a different professor next time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is not a practical class, it feels like a 4 credit class. She assigns ALOT. You'll have to do 1 painting in class, that needs to be done by next week. At the same time, she will assign another one at home that needs to be done the same week. Sometimes 2 or more painting as homework. Plus she is never satisfied with your work, you have to redo.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is by far the hardest art class I have ever taken. You do several paintings that are due the next class meet. Beginning paint class but expects you to know already how to paint. You'll never get a high grade on a painting. Also per her syllabus, you can have two absences before she lowers your grade. She'll lower it even if you miss one class.