Nisa was a wonderful and knowledgeable professor. You go over a lot of interesting content and she has field experience that she brings in which helps to exemplify issues and make things interesting! Lots of extra credit opportunities and has clear grading criteria. Almost weekly group projects (in-class).

She is a kind and passionate professor who truly cares about her students and the topic. Lectures are engaging and she explains assignments clearly in class, so going really helps (she also makes that clear in the syllabus). The homework connects to the lectures and exam content, which helps, & there are many extra credit opportunities that add up!

I think she is a little over hated. I agree that she is a little disorganized, but when I took her class, she was the only instructor, grader, and course coordinator. She is very passionate about what she teaches and is very kind and understanding if you go to her office hours.

I find the assignments sometimes has unclear instructions and lectures are sometimes disorganized and not clear

She is passionate about the subject but her course can be difficult because she makes things 'exclusive' to lectures and if you miss one she won't be lenient. She also is pretty unorganized and tends to put dates wrong in canvas and is not understanding about it.

The lectures aren't recorded, and there are weekly group projects, but you can tell that she cares about what she is teaching. Exam 1 was handwritten, Exam 2 was online, and the final exam is optional. There is a final project. She also gives out occasional extra credit, but it is not enough to significantly impact your grade. She's also kind!

Very unorganized and releases assignments on canvas very last minute. Unclear about grading guidelines and will grade based on a rubric that students are unaware of. Three exams with the third being a cumulative (optional) final and format is inconsistent (one on paper, one on computer).

Very unclear grading expectations and instructions, lecture heavy, provides extra credit but at such low amounts that it will not influence your grade

I think Dr. Karimi is an excellent lecturer! I thought that the material was really interesting and helpful to start a foundation to understand evolution. Definitely a favorite course.

Dr. Karimi is an extremely kind and caring professor; however, many of her assignments and test questions are very poorly worded/executed. Lectures and material are poorly organized and lead to a lot of confusion. However, she does give opportunities for extra credit and you can tell that she does care about her students.

Dr. Karimi usually has all the content you need for exams/quizzes in the lecture slides. Quizzes and exams are open note, unproctored online. TON of extra credit opportunities. Some quiz/exam questions are poorly worded, need proofreading, or just overall confusing, but she usually lets you argue your point and earn points back if you get it wrong.

Professor Karimi's lectures are chaotic and disorganized. Her test questions are sometimes not very clear or extremely poorly worded. She assigned an extremely difficult homework assignment for a module and then tested us on different concepts. I often find myself confused in lecture and looking things up after. I wouldn't recommend her to anyone.

The venn diagram of lecture content and exam content has a small overlap. She wont teach much about quantitative equations but tests on them extensively. Hope you were paying attention for those 5 minutes Bc! Extra credit is worth so little it won’t affect your grade