Reviews of professor Shokouh Pourarian

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her lectures are so fast that it is very difficult to keep up with, but she has clear handwriting. She rarely gives examples of the concepts we are learning: she focuses on the theory. When I asked her questions, she would repeat verbatim what she already said. It didn't matter much because I just watched the course coordinator's posted lectures.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
So, haven had Shokouh for Calc 3, I can say that as a calculus teacher she is pretty okay. She does expect some level of participation, so if you are actually lost, then she does carry some level of judgement if you are simply not getting the material. However, she is overall nice outside when she expects participation. Decent professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
As long as you are on time with the material, you will find the lecture very interesting with the way she teaches.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Showed every problem nicely and paced the course well. She was bad af too

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures were extremely rushed and could get hard to understand. Made the class much harder than it needed to be.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Pourarian is a great professor to have if you pay attention to lectures and do all the required homework. There were guided lecture sheets to follow along with during the lectures, which were great for going over exams. She makes the material clear and concise.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
she was really fast and got through 2 lessons in one lecture. Her handwriting is so neat which is very easy to take notes from and she even answers 3 question in one lecture with keeping the same speed. The most things i am using in Math121, I learned from her not McNamara. she is way too slow!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
It was very hard to understand her and I would definitely not recommend taking her. All she makes you do in discussions are the online worksheets. Literally no one would show up to her discussion or lectures. Good luck learning everything on your own.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She doesn't put any lecture notes online, and there is no lecture capture. The professor simply writes a bunch of notes on a whiteboard, which becomes unorganized and hard to follow...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Overcomplicates, focuses too much on theory and not enough on problem solving.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Her lectures were pretty helpful because she gave a lot of examples and has really good notes but she doesn't post them online so you have to go to class. Attendance is mandatory and there's a pop quiz every week. but it's open notes. She's very nice and approachable, go to her office hours and she'll work on the written hw with you.