Reviews of professor Valentine Moghadam

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Moghadam set high expectations on every assignment. She harshly grades research papers even ones that were not on the syllabus. She grades you based on her expectations from you and does not set an even playing field. Her classroom environment is boring, tense, and sometimes anxiety-inducing. Even if her resume is shiny, stay away.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Moghadam was AMAZING!!! Yes, she is a tough grader and yes, you do have to write papers pretty much every week but she really knows her content and explains it really well. I took WMNS 2480 with her and it was a great course. You also get to choose what topic and country (ies) you write about for your final paper. I will def take her again.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Though it's a 2000 level course, prof. Moghadam treated us like grad students. This class was a fair amount of work (weekly papers & 6,000 word final), but I can say that it was definitely my favorite class at northeastern. Prof. Moghadam is extremely well respected in the academic world (google her) , and I have learned so much from her class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's amazing and knows her stuff. She will inspire you and push you in the best way. Of course there are always easier classes to take, but if you actually want to learn and make the money you're paying for your education worth it, this would be the class for you.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Not a good professor, mentor, or academic. She has extreme expectations of all her students and doesnt extend any understanding to her students. Very tough grader, likes to humiliate her students and induces deep anxiety when in her presence.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Moghadam is disrespectful and very unfair. When giving feedback, she is unkind, often contradicts herself, and leaves students feeling stupid. She is demanding but does not put in much work herself - she took 1 day to read and grade twenty 30-page papers, so she clearly only glanced at them. She does not care about teaching or about her students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Assignment instructions are unclear, then she scolds us for doing things wrong. Students expected to be 100% knowledgeable on all topics - If not, she embarrasses us in front of the whole class. When we ask her questions, she won't give a straight answer. Doesn't support her students, and forces her ideas onto our work at the risk of our grades