Reviews of professor Zozan Pehlivan

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. Her syllabus is unclear, her instructions on her assignments are vague, and if you ask her a question, she will give little to no help. She barely responds to emails and is rude. She expects you to read 70+ pages each week and for our final exam she dropped two 1,500 word essays that is supposed to be due in under a week.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was all discussions, it could have been an online class. She mostly wanted to talk about the readings, which were about 70 pages at a time. She is incredibly intimidating and this made class very anxiety inducing. I get that she's a new professor but I feel like she could have put more time into her lectures.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class almost entirely revolves around doing the readings and participating in discussion. There's typically 2 readings, a lecture, and a discussion every week. 20% of your grade is based on participation. She was very lenient and changed due dates for our midterm, final, and research paper. She is understanding and wants everyone to succeed.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class was small and very discussion based. Always challenged us to think of different perspectives and kept the conversation going. Zozan is very passionate about nomads, which is evident in this class. There was a lot of reading and some grading things could have been more clear but I also took it the first year it was offered.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Her lectures have no structure and is mostly her rambling on a things that have little to no relation to the lecture. I was trying to be optimistic but she assigned 30+ page readings and give no information on assignments other than a due date.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She assigns entire books for readings (mind you this is a three credit class) and then, she expects you to have meaningful things to say about said reading like you didn't have to speed-read to get it done. If you read at an above-average pace and the subject matter interests you, you might like this class. Otherwise I'd steer clear.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
An incredibly disorganized professor, while she was more or less easy to understand her lectures weren't. They were loose and unstructured so taking notes was difficult. She would constantly move from one topic to another without going into much detail on either. Do the readings and you should be fine and hope you have a good TA. Beware the final.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Pehlivan is super nice, caring, and understanding. Go to lecture otherwise you miss a lot. I took notes of everything she said and it helped me do well. She also gives you the midterms and final beforehand so all you have to do is go through everything and memorize it(mainly defining things, when they happened.)