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California State University - San Marcos (Fall 2025)

Financial Institutions and Markets (2 sessions)

University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley (Spring 2025)

Financial Institutions and Markets (Online course)

Evaluation Score: 4.87 out 0f 5

Students' Reviews:

I’ve had a great experience with this course, and Professor Gholami has been excellent. I would suggest incorporating lecture videos with examples for math-related concepts, as I’m a visual learner and would have benefited from seeing those topics demonstrated more clearly.
Professor Gholami made the course interesting and easy to understand.
Made online classes in a great way for students. Super nice, would definitely recommend this professor for this course to future students.
Professor Fariba Gholami provides all the information needed to follow class activities for each week.
Very insightful, great support! Would recommend it again!
Very nice and helpful professor. Thank you for a great semester!
Your class was very straight forward and easy to digest. I like that you meet with us on a one on one follow up with how the class is going. You are a very sweet person, and it was nice taking your course.
GREAT INSTRUCTOR
Good professor
Great Professor!
Great Professor Learned alot from her
Great communication
Great Professor.
Great Teacher

University of Texas– Rio Grande Valley (Fall 2024)

Introduction to Finance

Evaluation Score: 4.76 out of 5

Students' Reviews:

I possibly got the best intro to finance course available for this semester; Ms. Gholami's style of teaching was perfect in my book.
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Professor Gholami did an outstanding job teaching this course. Their engaging lectures and clear explanations made complex topics easy to understand, and their passion for the subject truly inspired us. I’m grateful for the opportunity to learn from such an excellent educator!
Professor Gholami made the course interesting and easy to understand.
She is great at responding and helping when you do not understand.
She was extremely knowledgeable and was helpful with any assignments I was unsure about. She was extremely kind and I enjoyed her way of spreading out the assignments, exams, and quizzes throughout the semester. She was understanding and worked hard to help in giving her good learning experience.
Very nice professor that cares for her students. Gives a lot of opportunities for redemption and teaches in a way to make hard lessons easier. Must be given a raise at once!!!!!!!!
I really enjoy prof Gholami, but I feel like a lot of times the class was just lecture, whereas we couldve been a bit more involved when learning equations, by the prof maybe giving us like 5 minutes to work out the answer.
Enjoyed this class
Great Professor!
Great Teacher
Great class, great teacher
Great communication

University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley (Fall 2024)

Business Statistics

Evaluation Score: 4.69 out of 5

Students' Reviews:

I think there can be some more leniency when it comes to attendance. I understand wanting to a good attendance from students to ensure the most effective learning, however I think many things happen that do not always allow a perfect attendance. I don't think attendance should affect an overall good grade.
Instructed the material very well
The instructor was available and answered all questions I had, I did not like the online portion of the course it was terrible, I would have preferred the instructor to prepare the course and taught herself, but overall it was good.
Professor Gholami's class was very insightful for me. I liked the way she reviewed our lessons in detail, and she was always available for any questions related to her class. Overall, I enjoyed her course!
This is a heavy technical course, which makes it difficult to engage and retain students. I would suggest a slightly different approach to the lecture style as it can often leave students disinterested and leave the session with no benefit. A more interactive environment could help the students better understand their course material. Math is not difficult at all but can be tedious and repetitive. The course lecture format could use a more interactive touch.
While this class can be very confusing in certain chapters, the teacher does a very good job in explaining the work and helping you if you have any questions. I’d highly recommend taking this class with her!
an understanding teacher who will reason with your situation as well willing to help me whenever I had any questions with the assignments.
Good Professor