Reviews of professor Mithra Pirooz

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I would advise to not take this course with Professor Pirooz. She takes weeks to grade assignments, does not respond to emails, and reads off the slides. Sadly, she is the only professor teaching the Developmental Psychology lab as of right now. I am stuck with this unprofessional professor for another semester. Rip

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I actually took PSYC 3520- Child Psych. Lectures are pretty much just her reading from the PowerPoint, boring, but easy to get through. Grading took forever. Tests were pretty straightforward and she allows you to use notes.  She is passionate about psychology I just do not think she teaches in a very enticing manner.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Mostly reads off a PowerPoint during lectures, and she provides the PowerPoints on canvas. She takes forever to give you feedback on assignments even though her TA grades most of the assignments instead of her. A stickler for correct APA format, especially for the debate paper. Otherwise, she seems like she cares for her students.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Mithra is very sweet and it's evident that she enjoys learning and teaching psychology! The content of the class was interesting, and I liked how she took a cross-cultural perspective in selecting our text for the class. My only concern is that the grading process was very slow for this course. Hopefully that issue will be addressed in the future!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She was very caring outside out of class. Her syllabus is 14 pages long - get ready to work. My only thing is she's a graduate student and reads off the slides and the grading criteria is kind of wonky. Consists of Plaigiarism certificate, 4 exams, Source Matrix, Debate Paper, and Media Reflection. Quizlets are online for exams

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is one of the nicest professors I've had. She understands that we have lives outside of class and extends due dates if we need it. Asks the class good questions about examples from their lives that pertain to what we're going over. She is also accessible outside of class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I have taken a few of her classes over the past 3  semesters. She grades very harshly on APA style, but she provides a very helpful PowerPoint for it. Her lectures are long, but the tests are easy if you pay attention and she allows open note and open book. The papers and assignments are not too bad either!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really nice and knows you have a life outside of class. However she is absolutely terrible at answering emails which is a big problem since the class I took is online. She also takes FOREVER to grade assignments but I think that is mostly her TA.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is a very understanding professor and was willing to read over assignments before I submitted it and gave great feedback. She does read from slides but also connected it to real life experiences. Days that we had quizzes they were online and we had no class and all day to do them and they were open book open note. I never really used the book.