BUS618 Marketing -- Finishèd

Ah, yes, my friends -- Marketing class is finished. We can mix our groans of overwhelming stress with a slight tinge of relief and rejoicing....

Marketing served a stint as the "Most Hated Class" for a couple months, until it was replaced by Cost Accounting. Our professor was seen as being culturally insensitive, distracted, and unconcerned about the students.

My complaints didn't really have anything to do with those things. In fact, I really liked the class because of its integration of accounting principles with marketing concepts. It was something that was really lacking in my undergraduate marketing class.

My gripes were:

• He never graded, and probably never even read, the majority of our case write-ups. He is suffering from some sort of degradation of sight in his right eye that makes reading really strenuous, so grading is difficult, but that issue should have been addressed sometime in the 12 weeks of the class.
  
  
• He would take on paying, outside consulting projects, but wouldn't provide feedback to students on anything more than complaints about their poor use of grammar.
  
  
• Then, he'd give homework assignments with spelling and grammar mistakes of his own in them. [Why doesn't anyone seem to know what F7 is for?]
  
  
• The case studies (most of which he didn't really look over) constitute 30% of the grade, participation 20%, one group project project 20%, and the final 30%. That leaves about 80 percent of the grade up in the air until it's all over. I don't like that kind of uncertainty.
  
  
• Finally (hey, there's a pun there), given that the final consists of about 10 pages of short answer questions and 10 pages of questions concerning spreadsheet results, it's not likely that he's even going to look over our stuff until WAAAAAYYYYY after. If he hasn't even read our three page case studies, what makes anyone thing he's going to get to our 680 pages of finals anytime soon? (That's (10+10)*34 students)

I feel pretty confident that he'll give me an A, but I'd rather feel and know that I'd earned it rather than depend on a professor's laziness.