If you want to murder your GPA, take his class.3 midterms and 1 final. No study guide. No curve. You must memorize every single words from textbook, articles, and his lectures. He makes his students to pay most of their time to his class and forget their other classes. He is the worst teacher in UO

never post important things on bb, so many much stuff have to remember, not giving curve

Most of the class time is spent discussing his political views (far left liberal) and very little time is spent on the course materials. He uses data and statistics that are skewed and from sources that are not trustworthy. The tests are on small details from the textbook. I recommend taking this course with any other professor.

He doesn't allow students to go to restroom. For any excuses

worst prof i've had at UO. rude in office hours and tells students they just dont understand the material. tests are on random small details of a 200 page reading. ridiculous amount of info to know and give no direction on what to study for tests. doesnt care about students and wont let them leave the class to go to the bathroom or get water at all

One of the worst professors Ive had at UO. Doesnt care about his students. Tests on arbitrary details. Is rude and condescending. Doesnt even grade the final exam, makes TAs do it. Dont take him if you have a choice.

AVOID THIS TEACHER AT ALL COSTS! I have never had a teacher who cares less about his students, he is rude and condescending, his lectures are long and terribly boring and supplemented by an obnoxious amount of outside videos and readings. Study all you want for the exams it doesn't matter because he chooses two things out of 4 weeks of material.

Extremely knowledgeable on the subject and gives really important information that everyone should know. It's too bad he does it in the most boring way possible and doesn't care about students at all. With a vast comprehension of ethics you would hope he would apply it but don't expect anything other than a rude and strict teacher.

It was not a class, where things were discussed objectively, it was a push of a political agenda upon students. Meanwhile there are only 3 paper grades and 2 exams that determine your total grade.

Omg this class was miserable. Overall he is not accommodating at all and is a SUPER strict grader. He doesn't allow any re-dos and overall the class just didn't make any sense at all. The lectures aren't fluid and you can never really understand what you are learning about. I do not recommend :/

This prof was the worst Ive had so far at UO. His instructions are unclear, his grading is unclear, the material is ultimately useless in terms of retention, and he is very condescending and passive aggressive with students. The exams are based upon readings and lectures and basically entail regurgitation of the material. Would not recommend him.

This is the worst professor I've had in three years. It seems like he actually wants all his students to fail. He is condescending, unhelpful, and frankly rude. He is completely unforgiving and his instructions are unclear. He is unhelpful when reached out to for help and grades extremely harshly. Avoid him if you can.

Awful. Please avoid him if you can even if you have to wait a term to take a class. It seems like no matter how much effort I put into this class I can't improve my grade. He grades really hard and his instructions are really vague. I was really excited for this class but he has completely ruined it. He's also really rude for no reason.

Boring lectures and hard grader

This is my only bad experience with a professor I have had at UO. The other comments explain everything but to summarize: he is very boring, he grades harsh, assigns lots of reading and you dont even use half of them, makes 0 accommodations, and is snarky when you ask questions. I would highly recommended not taking him

He is the most monotone and boring professor I have ever had. He lectures like he has pulled an all nighter everyday and he doesnt get excited about a single topic. The amount of work isnt bad but he grades harsh. Overall I would avoid him if you can.

This is by far the worst course I have taken at the University of Oregon. His content is all over the place and he has no clear structure within his application of material. His bias against certain religions is evident and he misconstrues perspectives that disagree with his. If you can, do yourself a favor and get a different professor.

By far the worst professor I've ever had. Had to take this guy's class twice because the midterm essays are strictly graded, and his flaws are more apparent the second time. He uses the same (AWFUL) recorded lectures, even one that has a full uncut minute of mistakes. I truly don't know what he does; he doesn't grade or make new lectures! RUN

I figured out how to get an A! I'm left of the center politically but in order to get an A, you need to absolutely go as far to the left of the spectrum as possible. You actually have to sacrifice persuasiveness and well-thought-out arguments for positions that are as left as possible even when you don't have concrete supporting evidence.

I know it is the beginning of the term but oh wow. This guy literally puts super small details from the textbook, additional readings, and videos and uses them as questions. Does this guy not know we are required to take his class and we really do not care about the content?

Worst professor at the UO business college hands down. Didn't even know how his own test was structured, can't even remember to start zoom meetings until halfway through class. Does not follow through on expectations he sets. He wants to meet you halfway and when you get halfway he is not there. STAY AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE!!!!!

I wouldnt even care if I failed this class. This man should not be a college professor. The number one thing I gather from this class was that he was trying to push his political agenda upon his students, most of which I agreed with. However, he does not teach, he does not try to better his students.

If I could give this professor a 0 I would. He is hands down the worst professor I have had during my time at UO. For the essay portion of our midterm he expected us to quote from 4 articles and a weeks worth of lecture videos that he removed from canvas. He is expecting that we have memorized all of the content in order to quote them. Psychotic.

Horrible, an absolute disgrace. SO much potential, he is so smart but horrible grader.

This professor is the Absolute Worst instructor I have ever had. The class average is 60 and he refuses to curve any of the grades. He does not offer any help to student and when I asked him for help in passing the class he just told me to get better grades which is impossible considering how harsh he grades everything.

Farhad is a very disrespectful and unfair professor. For your midterm and final he will ask you to cite lectures and ~4 readings without being able to read the sources or rewatch the lectures - he restricts access to them on canvas. He is extremely condescending and rude, and asks students to not think but to just repeat his political views. Sad!

Farhad Malekafzali is the worst teacher I have in my life. Don't even take his class to risk your life! His materials is not helpful at all and tough Grader! He gives lots of readings and they are super long! If you miss only 1 citation from his lecture video, he deduct 20 points immediately!

it's unbelievable. What he does is just give us a bunch of reading and a bunch of lecture videos. It's so absolutely boring. And he won't provide study guide and extra credit assignments. I don't think he is a good professor AT ALL! BORING AND HORRBLE!

GET READY TO READ AND WATCH A LOT OF LONG VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE. They all count. You'll get discussion every other week. NO discussion or extra credits on grade. if you have 2/10 even if you were sick or in the coma or on the brink of death be sure that your 2/10 will never change whatever the value of X. You better take this class in person.

Not good. Class is nothing but lectures and readings. He doesn't teach anything, and is an extraordinarily hard marker considering how little teaching he does. The UO should be embarrassed by him.

Probably the worst professor ive ever had! He relies on his TA for everything, lectures are incredibly monotone and he is not friendly at all. It is obvious he's been using the exact same videos for years. He removes all of the content from canvas prior to the midterms and makes it so hard to study. AVOID HIM AT ALL COSTS!!

This is one of the first classes where I explicitly failed a final after studying for multiple days. The first midterm alone that equivalates to more than 25 articles. Don't even get me started on the lecture videos as well as 1+ hour videos and documentaries (around 3-4 of them) you're required to watch every week on top of everything.

This giuy is probably the worst Professor I've had spending my time here at the UO. For an online course, this is probably the most amount of work I have done in a class. He removes all the lecture videos as well as the readings before the midterm so you cannot study a week in advance. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH THIS GIUY.

Does not believe in study guides, resubmissions, and extra credit. Does not announce much on Canvas or give you any real guidance on what you should be focusing on between chapters, tests, and quizzes. Do not take a class with this teacher. Very unprofessional and I'm seriously surprised he has a job teaching.

The tests ask questions on information from the tiniest places of articles. The lectures are outdated and the class is based on his political stance. This class does not follow business law. We learn nothing about studying cases & only touch on ethics when convenient. This class is "Let me tell you about my political stance and why it's right".

Farhad, nice guy. Awful teacher. If you don't have to take his class don't do it.

He was probably the worst professor I have ever taken. The class is 100 points total which basically just sets you up to fail because there is no margin for error. The exams are so hard. There is no outlined way to study. He gives little to no resources to help. If the whole class fails he does not care. Great guy though!

Dating back to Pre-K, this is the worst teacher/prof I have ever had. There are three issues: the assignments, the tests, and the grading. Assignments had very unclear instructions and feedback (also only 4 of them so no room for error). Test questions are based on very specific parts of readings. Average score on the final was a 64% yet no curve.

You can spend hours and hours doing the readings and watching the videos and you will still not be set up for success. There's no support, tests do not test knowledge of subjects only memorization of the tiniest details, and he doesn't interact directly with students whatsoever. Do not take a class with this guy.

This guy has rocks for brains

I salvaged a C because of how few instructions and expectations he gives for assignments. And then he tends to give tough grading standards on exams and the position paper. Awful teacher, don't recommend if you want to actually learn

Professor Malekafzali's class is unreasonably difficult, with no room for error. Exams require memorizing tiny details from 20+ articles and 5-10 videos, with no study guides or clear instructions. Outdated lectures, biased political opinions, and essays/tests favoring his views make it even worse. It's an unfair, poorly designed course.

Actually the worst professor I've had in college. He teaches whatever he felt like when he recorded his videos and not what any other in person BA325 courses are learning. He also gives difficult tests that focus on tiny details from readings that were weeks ago. His tests were very difficult and there was no curve. TAKE THIS CLASS IN PERSON.

This might be one of the worst professors at UO. Your whole grade is based on three exams with super random questions from a range of six video lectures. He doesn't believe in study guides, curves, or extra credit, and he doesn't even let you look at past work, like your quizzes. I had to take a P/NP because of how terrible this professor is.

Wasting no time sharing his opinion the Professor shared his thought that the U.S. was close to a second Civil War, pointing to 1 candidate. A whole lecture was spent on irrelevant info(history of automobiles)to have 1 Q on the midterm. Some exam Q's were graphs with 0 info to be answered purely from memory from the lecture. Worst Prof I've had @UO

Be prepared for an old school professor, as in everything is handwritten, it is lecture-heavy, and you will not have any study guides as he doesn't find it beneficial for learning. The lecture is 2 hours long and the exams could be on any of the 10000 things he brings up in class. Your only grades are small quizzes once a week and two exams.

Does not provide enough information within his lectures, talks about random stuff that does not correspond to business in any way. Seems as though he does not know what he is talking about half the time and just speaks to hear his own voice. Very pointless assignments that do not provide information that is relevant to the course.

If you see you have this professor immediately switch classes because he gives you no chance to get a good grade unless you can memorize everything you learned in four weeks at a time. There are lectures, readings, videos, graphs and no study guide to go off of or any clue what will be on the exam. worst class/teacher I have ever taken.

This professor is terrible his him having a PhD makes no sense. All his good rating on here are all bots to improve his rating. He does provide any help what so ever and does not teach ng you would learn in any other BA 325 class. Its 30+ videos and articles and 30+ lecture videos and you have to memorize every detail or you will fail.

This professor is old school, no laptops/ipads anything of that matter. Tests are on every lecture he gives (2 hours a class), random graphs u see in class, and are based off his opinions not fact. There is no chance in this class unless you study for only this class and heavily engage and participate.