Crap, please if you can do not go to his class. Drop it at all costs.Take another prof. If you have to go to his class, you can't miss any becuase he gives pop quizes.

DROP HIS COURSE! Worst prof I've ever had. Unfair, biased opinions. Course material was scattered, very unorganized.

Stay away, please for your own good.

He is awful. Very unfair, very unclear, VERY VERY unhelpful. He does not explain how he will mark things, and also threatens to give us all bad marks because he is disorganized. He is also extremely arrogant and doesn't give any breaks in 2 hour lectures.

Awful. Avoid him at all costs. He is petty, childish, unreasonable, very arrogant, boring, disorganized. Threatens to give low marks because students won't plan their lives around his class. Terrible prof.

Extremely arrogant. Basically regurgitates the textbook - only reason to go to class are quizzes. Unfair marker, no clear outline of what is expected. Gives no useful information. Mean, petty, obnoxious, boring. Thinks very highly of himself. Turned an otherwise enjoyable class into a nightmare.

He's terrible! Just e-mail him an you'll know what I mean. Avoid at all costs

Farrell carries himself like a dictator. If this "instructor" can be avoided, then avoid him at all costs!

Very unhelpful, very boring prof/course

I took this course with Farrell last semester. And I would like to warn you that he will likely screw you on your final. I know of several students that went into the exam with A's and saw their finally grade dramatically drop. Injustice and abuse of entrusted power took place.

it's an easy course, but this prof just tries to make your life miserable in the course

This prof is arrogant as hell. Im not complining about the material or the tests (I do my work and receive approproate grades), but Farrel overall just annoyed me the whole semester! He tries TOO hard to make the class harder, just so students will take it seriously. I swear he has insecurity issues... Drop him...

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If u feel like being talked at he's the prof for u. The least accommodating professor I have ever come into contact with. If your grandma dies and you miss a test be prepared to provide a death certificate.

I just honestly dont think he can teach or keep the class interested. I belive he is **** towards certain racials. Worst of all attendance is mandaotry of pop quizes. I knew he was not the best prof but I no other option, this man is killing my gpa.

BAAAAAAAD PROF.... terrible will kill ur gpa unless u consider urself really lucky... i am getting A's in pretty much all my classes expect his i am getting like a C.... terrible prof avoid him at all cost and tell ur friends to avoid him untill he is gone or something

WOW... who gave him permission to teach or to say a word.... who even gave him his phd... someone should asses his teaching skills...

Blah!!! Terrible teacher not even professor... gets paid to travel and you get sub profs and he didnt cover the last 2 chapters and he will test us on them... AND he posts stuff really late ...

Easily the worst class offered at Ryerson. A total waste of money with his error filled textbook to his useless simulation on toothpaste. I have a question for you Carlyle, Are you the worst prof at Ryerson? Oh I know! YA MONNNNN! By the way, he calls Asians "dem chineses". Man is always going on trips too! GPA crusher! Avoid!!!!

This guy is an ass. He's fun to listen to in lectures but completely irrelevant. You're better of reading the book. His pop quizzes and method of administration are terrible and unorganized as well.

Carlyle... I took his class last year just came to say to avoid this idiot with all your might. Your grade will not reflect your effort. This man should be kicked out of ryerson because he doesnt know how to teach and worst of all he is arrogant. You need to read the book like thrice to get an A.. ( thats 3 *30 pages)he is nuts

probably the worst prof in the entire universe. after taking the course, i think a snail could have taught it better. hey, at least a snail can think better than he can!

Oh look Carlyle rated himself!!! this guy is the worst Prof I have ever had. Made me move to another program - hello marketing good by management

HOW DID THIS GUY GET HIS PHD. EASILY ONE OF THE WORST PROFESSOR. ONLY CARES ABOUT HIMESELF DO NOT TAKE HIM IF YOU WANT A GOOD OR EVEN PASS THE GRADE. IMPOSSIBLE TO DEAL WITH.

My personal account with this professor is that he does have a lot of work experience but does not teach the class in an engaging way. Most of the class is just discussion, most the time irrelevant material, he also gave 5 pop quizes on material which sometimes was hardly ever mentioned in class. To do well you should rather just read the book.

Baaaaaaaaaad

This prof is the worst prof ever conceived. His experience is irrelevant as he uses the most stupid and off topic examples. He is not willing to help any students, he just throws you around and makes you feel like ****. He tries to sell you his textbook like some cheap flea market salesman. Dont take this course at all. dont do it.

The fact that he is the department head made me reconsider my choice of attending Ryerson. During lectures, CF will ask class common sense questions that students think are redundant. When no one answers he will call on people. You feel patronized answering questions like "the market looks very attractive, would you enter?" Very unhelpful.

Bad prof.

This prof is ridiculous. His pop quizzes are written extremely hard, shows no remorse for students, I don't understand why he is a prof. He wrote a crappy textbook, that you have to read which is complete trash. Marks extremely hard, why? I don't know. Do yourself a favour and take it the following semester with another prof.

His lectures are interesting. His tests are tough. The course brought down my GPA. 120 MC on the final 2 hour exam. Thats less than a min per question! The questions were long too. 60 MC on the midterm for 1 hour. The grade distribution isnt very fair with the group project. Avoid taking a class with him. He treats his tests like an LSAT!

I have had terrible profs but he is by far the worst one I've had at Ryerson. He genuinely wants everyone to fail with classes averages in 40s and 50s for everything. The content is easy but he makes the quizzes, midterm, exam and the simulation INSANELY hard for no reason. PLEASE don't take him if you can. You will hate your life.

He basically wants you to fail

WORST PROF EVER!20 MC on the final 2-hour exam. The questions were long too. 60 MC on the midterm for 1 hour. The grade distribution isn't very fair with the group project.

Midterm is 60 minutes 60 questions and final is 120 minutes 120 questions. 5 pop quizzes throughout the semester but he decided to give us the 4th and 5th quiz on the same day because he is just a great guy. When I submitted my peer evaluation 2 hours late he gave me a 0/5 because it would be unfair to the rest of the class to give me full marks.

Extremely cocky and ego bigger than the lecture hall. Not a prof for the students, he's a prof for the money. Acts like his class is the only class you are taking and won't help you at all with any question. Quizzes were ridiculous, no time to do them and completely random dates. Made this class 10 times harder than it should have been.

If it wasn't for those 5 pop quizzes worth 4% each, no one would go to his class. He's here for the money, and he is ruthless,he just doesn't care. Legitimately the stereotypical prof, that your high school teacher warned you about. That textbook of his is more confusing than trying to understand women.

Worst prof ever!!!!! He wants everyone to fail. Pop quizzes are ridiculously hard.

Being in my last semester, this class was by far the worst experience I've ever had at Ryerson. He has absolutely no consideration for students. He made online weekly quizzes on Friday evening, and even though I had a lecture he did not care at all. His textbook is poorly written , redundant and hard to follow. AVOID AVOID AVOID

Hes tenured, so he doesnt care because hes untouchable. Class averages for midterms and quizzes were consistently low, but because a few people got good grades, his reasoning is there was nothing wrong with the test. You didnt study enough. His tests and exams are long and unfair. His book isnt very good. Avoid him if you care about your GPA

Content could be interesting, but he makes everything unnecessarily hard. Would not take him again.

Extremely poor course facilitation. Inconsiderate of people's time and schedules. Makes simulation due at Friday at midnight, quizzes only available on Saturday at 6PM. Only gives a week to complete both final assignments (video and report). Online courses should provide flexibility for students. Would not recommend to anyone. Avoid if possible

Save your GPA and AVOID! quizzes and exams are so unfair. A minute per question and questions are long and scenario based. Took this online in the summer, Prof is passive aggressive and is so inconsiderate. Forget about your fridays and Saturdays if you're taking this online. 5, 20 MC quizzes, 70 MC midterm, 120 MC final and 30% group work

a real gpa killer. this was the worst class I've ever taken. whats sad is that hes the only prof for this class. midterm and exams are ridiculously hard when half of the questions are in extra af paragraphs. 120 mins for 120 qs you better be usain bolt at reading. the material is actually not bad but he made it unnecessarily harder. feelsbadman.

Bad prof. Pop quizzes worth a total of 20% of your grade. Consider 20% of your grade down the drain. They are not M/C, but short answer questions and long case studies that you are only given 15 minutes to complete. Has nothing to do with what you learned in class. His lectures mean nothing because he wants you to purchase the book he wrote. Bad.

I took his CGMS 522 online class and he is the worst prof I ever had in my 3 years at ryerson. He does not care about his students. He unlocks the final group assignment a week before it is due so it is harder to finish the project on time. His times for quizzes are not changeable so you have to be free every Friday to do it. Please avoid him.

He is a professor. Does not care about his students at ALL and doesn't care if you pass or fail either. His pop quizzes are either short answer, case studies or multiple choice (rarely) and you have 15 min to do them. Midterm is 60 MC q's- 60 min to finish, final is 120 MC q's -120 min to complete. Simulation is useless too. Avoid him.

WORST PROF AT RYERSON!! Avoid his class at all costs, he really DOES NOT care about his students. 120 MC questions and 120mins for the final exam is not an accurate representation of a students ability/ knowledge. Some students need longer then a min per question, have test anxiety. He doesn't even give them the chance to mentally process Qs.

This guy is a total joke, 10-page essay and 10+ slides powerpoint only available for one week and have to be submitted within a week. 60MC in 1 hr. He does not care about students, even this is a Chang school class, Tests are on FRIDAY NOON, makes totally non-sense for part-time students who work full time. NEVER reply to student's email, AVOID

DO NOT TAKE HIM. I REPEAT DONT. He does not care about you at all. He just cares about u getting his textbook and he doesnt help you if u email Him. He says everything is on D2L. Quizzes and tests are so bad. Gives you 1 minute per question yet most of the questions requires u to read a whole block of text. Not a good prof at all.

He has so many required readings to go over it's crazy to think that we're only at half the semester. He only gives 60 minutes for 60 multiple choice questions where they are almost all scenario-based application questions. Extremely unreasonable and a lack of resources that are relevant to the test. 0 lecture slides and no outline of assessments.

Awful and Disgusting class; never take him if you are not in GMS major. Doesnt even helps you out for everything related to simulation projects. Finals and Midterms are awful and gives an hour to do 60 questions which were mostly long paragraphs .Exams, Projects and Quizzes are due on the weekends and fridays which is unfair for part time students.

Very hard marker, exams were very difficult with hardly enough time to complete. There is a group project towards the end of the term worth 40% and you are only given less than a week to complete it. GOODLUCK, and brace yourself.

Took his course online and he did not hold a single lecture. Paid over $700+ to teach myself the course. Quizzes are a time-crunch, there's about a minute per question. Doable if you study the material really well. Replied to emails sometimes weeks later and overall unhelpful.

worst prof ever DO NOT TAKE

He is the worst professor i've had. Only cares about selling this textbook. Good luck passing the tests/quizzes if you dont buy the textbook no matter how hard you try to learn the slides/materials. Final Report is released a week before due date, the whole class begged him to extend the deadline, he was unmoved. DONT TAKE THIS CLASS/ OR HIM!!!!!!!

If you cant find any different prof then go with them for this course. This mans a hard marker.

He doesn't care about his students, unfair marker, and 25% of your mark is uncontrollable due to the final placement in the simulation. Midterms were unfair with a lot of reading and not enough time to answer questions and same with the final. He only gave one week to do 2 major assignments at the same time and at one point he fought with students

Carlyle doesnt care about his students one bit. Always finding news ways to make us suffer and his marking scheme is a joke, very tough on grades. Avoid at all cost!

Mr Farrell is unfortunately one of those profs whos just there for his paycheque and to sell his book. Gives very little time for exams with VERY long case study questions, simulation is marked solely on a narrow criteria which most end up doing poorly on. Very lazy, dry, lacks understanding for students. Try to avoid.

Will make you think hes very professional because of his long resume and experience but in reality he probably got fired from every single job he had due to his annoying and narcissistic personality. No clue how he is still a professor at Ryerson. Just reads off the slides, doesnt care about his students, and his exams are extremely tough.

Ryerson please get rid of him!! Had to take this course with him and hated it. Very bad prof and laugh and makes fun of you when you ask a question. Makes the lives of his students unbearable.

YOU REMEMBER ONE THING - do not TAKE his class, In class we do not have much substantial and explanation, he will cut your score, and he has bad temper, my friends and me emailed to him and he does not even respect us, even will blame us, though we sent email to his questions is not complicated. not to be alarmist.

By far, the WORST professor I have had through my four years of university. He makes you buy HIS textbook and a simulation ($130+ total), did not provide sufficient information for tests & his grading scheme makes no sense. 60% of your grade is based on a competition!!!! Not on course concepts or how well you know them. DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE!!

He doesn't teach you anything, you read the lousy textbook HE wrote and do his quizzes and tests which are insanely specific and don't actually test your knowledge, only if you memorized his textbook examples. Overall, I don't think I've had such an uninvolved professor who doesn't care about his students success or not. Avoid if you can.

He is just not fair and does not consider the student's opinions especially for the group project which you have to pay for and most probably end up falling due to his unclearness and the weight of it. Wanna save your CGPA? don't take this class!

This prof is up there with the bad ones, very unorganized, forgets to upload slides, so we have to email to remind him, unfair evaluation for simulation and does not care for students opinions, quizzes were not planned and hed forget that we had to do them, final was caught off guard no time and pretty hard, this class will bring down your GPA

The worst prof I have ever taken, but he is the only prof for gms522.

The simulation was incomprehensible, and the scoring was incomprehensible. The content of the exam has nothing to do with the lecture and requires a lot of reading. Test banks are useless. Don't try them. Even multiple-choice questions like to use long cases. The final exam has case, it's long, it's formatted but it doesn't have the right answer

Not the worst, but doesn't really care about his students. Midterm/exam were fairly difficult and a bit hard to prepare for, at least in my opinion. Make sure to find a good group for the simulation and try your best to do well in it as it's worth a lot. This class dropped my GPA like crazy so don't take this unless it's a requirement!

Worst professor in term of caring for and understanding student problem. DO NOT TAKE UNLESS MANDATORY. Wort person to be a professor

If someone told me to take this course with this professor, I would run away. FAST. This course is so confusing that I don't know anything, and I just completed this course LAST WEEK. He would explain something and have a "pop quiz" on stuff I had never heard before. AND YOU NEED TO FIND A GREAT GROUP (ITS 50%). OTHERWISE, YOU WILL FAIL.

Top 2 worst profs ever and he's not 2. Easily the worst professor I've ever had. Unless you hate your life do everything you can to avoid taking this guy's class. Absolute clown show

PUTA! Absolute worst professor at Ryerson. He does not understand. He does not give enough time for his online quizzes, so you have to rush, which can cost you your grade. His textbook is the worst. The text is a whirlwind, and nothing is straightforward in the book. He abandons his students in Chang.

Abandons students in Chang. He's unfair. He needs to be fired.

Honestly, pass the course. He is exceptionally unreasonable and spiteful. His textbook is so bad Grammarly corrects it.

Unreasonable professor, tests, midterms and exams all give you 1 minute per question; more often than not, the questions will be a whole case giving you about 20 seconds to think and come up with an answer. With the simulation, which you must pay for, half the class WILL get a bad grade due to the professor's marking scheme. Non GMS Majors AVOID!

Doesn't make sense how he's still the only professor teaching this course. Slides aren't that helpful he bases his tests on his textbook, unannounced pop quizzes have nothing to do with what we learned. With the simulation the ta's don't really help you out you just have to figure it out on your own, they just give you a few videos to watch.

Most terrible teacher ever. DO NOT TAKE HIM, AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Is not understanding and does not care if his students fail. Gives pop quizzes every week and should be fired!!!! Caused mental health problems and is not considerate AT ALL!

worst experience ever. i dont not normally submit a rating for a teacher but he deserves one. completely inconsiderate and stubborn. beware of pop quizes basically every week.

i've had a ton of bad profs but this one just tops them all. DO NOT!!! take this class if you don't need to. i can't stress that enough. dont know how he still has this job, he is so rude and inconsiderate. my mental health tanked this semester, not even because of the class itself, but because of HIM.

mid ngl

Racist and incredibly condescending professor, I am surprised he is still allowed to teach considering how infamous he is. Random pop quizzes, and he makes us buy his own textbook.

Absolutely terrible.

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The prof isn't the best choice if you are looking for a good GPA in the subject. He is kinda self centred and you will have pop quizzes half the semester and this course has a simulation that is just a total waste cause its not getting you better marks In the subject it only weighs 10-15% of weight in your grade.

Total disaster

You can't avoid this prof because he's the only one who teaches gms522 and he's head of the dept. He gives pop quizzes and their hard asf. The simulation will save your grade. He doesn't even teach; he just reads his 100 year old slides. You get 1 hour to answer 60 mc on midterm. 2 hours for 200 mc on final. no crib sheet for either. everyone fails

Lost a friend of mine's quiz and gaslit her into thinking she had lost it, I was present when she submitted it, had to go to the chair so she could retake it. He's very full of himself, argues over email and intimidates students. Midterm was 60 question in 60 minutes and pop quizzes are 15 for 15 mins, also takes forever to hand quiz grades back.

This prof is only in it for the money, he couldn't care less about being a good prof, does not care about students, and everything is his way or no way. Admits to getting a cut from the simulation, which is why he makes everyone buy it instead of one per group. He's tenured, so the school won't get rid of him, and ofc he wrote the textbook too!

DO NOT TAKE WITH HIM. There are pop quizzes throughout the semester so you have to attend class. I missed one because I was working and he said he can't shift the weight to the final because its not a valid reason to miss a lecture????? He gives absolutely no instructions for the simulation and it is a free for all. Course is just a money grab

He basically forces us to buy his 15-year-old textbook if we want good grades, and it costs $80 plus the $60 simulation. Not to mention how he is a tough grader.

Prof does not respond to emails. Textbook is written by himself and classes do not accurately reflect content that is tested. Lots of self learning in his classes and there are pop quizzes. In what way does making quizzes a surprise help with a students learning rather than just telling them it will be weekly/bi-weekly?

The professor gets a kickback from this awful simulation he will make you do, where the results are randomized, and you could potentially get a failing grade due to circumstances out of your hands. Pop Quizzes are scattered throughout the course and are graded harshly. The midterm and Final have long, meaningless questions with little time to do.

As much as you should avoid this prof, you can't—he's the only one for this course. He forces you to buy his own textbook, and it's useless. Pop quizzes in the last 15–20 min. Midterm/final don't match slides or lectures; questions are half-page paragraphs. Final: 120 MC in 120 min—you spend more time reading the questions than answering.

This course is a mess. Lectures and textbook useless and add no value. Pop quizzes are random and stressful. Exams are unnecessarily hard, with long paragraphs, not enough time, and don't reflect what's taught. Avoid this class if possible—but if you have no choice, be prepared for constant stress and disappointment.

Pop quizzes randomly during lectures who does one after a mid term and midterm and finals are crazy long 1 hour for mid term and 2 hours for final questions aren't straightforward all situational based long paragraphs of context insane

Don't even bother reading the textbook.