Lecture were dull.

Goes on and on and on and on and on. Gives a post review of tests, but no review before a test and given the amount of information, this would be helpful. Not a gifted teacher.

Unprofessional

Totally mediocre, since he doesn't teach anything at all . No idea why've the uni even hired him . Always brags about his consulting firm which is below average too . Honestly if I could I would have taken any other prof for MGM courses . Already feeling sorry for the students taking his clsss

He does not give announcements about tests, you have to keep reading the course outline. Tests are hard, really detailed and textbook heavy. Short answer questions on his tests are really descriptive. I didn't enjoy this professor, he is so uptight and needs to chill at times.

The first day I started this course he is already stating only 1 in 3 people get accepted into the management program. He is so strict about his notes and taking pictures in class. This class is all about memorizing, even if he says otherwise. The first test is out of 10% to make sure you do well in the first, gets harder. Must attend lectures.

he is very unprofessional

This course is entirely memorization, it's an easy A if you can memorize. Also for BizCafe just do what StarBucks would do because people that did and they succeeded. Also, memorize the articles that he makes you read because the short answers always incorporate them.

By far the worst Professor I have ever met. He doesn't care about anyone other than himself. Doesn't properly answer on student's question when they actually important. Poorly teaches the material due to his inability to communicate or draw student's attention during lectures.

swanston is one shiny bald headed guy that purposely marks hard and wants you to fail so you could re take the course again and buy his 70$ e book that changes every year........... :)))

His class is useless.

I cant emphasis how upset I was after attending his lectures, just hearing him talk used to give me panic attack. Stay safe don't take his class. You will end up wasting your time and money

Waste of my time

Perhaps the most awful experience of my life. Doesn't actually teach material. Simply asks you to read the expensive textbook that you've purchased. Absolutely disappointed in UofT's low standards.

The course itself is not difficult. Just study and you will pass. However, as for the professor himself, there is much to be desired.

Do not take his class unless u have to. Nothing useful information in the lecture, basically u get all information from the book. This professor sucks.

He is one of the most difficult profs to have, especially since you get him right in 1st year. He takes off 5 out 30 marks on your midterm if you don't put in your "form letter" on your scantron.... Just an overall scary, rude man, would not take any class with him ever again. Says don't just memorize but that's all you do in that class. POMPOUS.

Not good at all

Toughest marker in the world. Im a usual 80 85 grade student and got a 63. Midterm and exams only specific answers are accepted. Demanding course. Not approachable.

If you dont need to take his class do not. He is the most unorganized professor. Seems organized but youll end up reading a chapter of a textbook then having to read another chapter that wasnt on the syllabus because he messed up online module. Important topics not really emphasized, youll find yourself taking a lot of time reading the textbook

Probably one of the rudest and most unapproachable professors at UTM. Avoid at all costs!

No, pls no

Extremely long tests in a short amount of time. Can't even read. the whole test and time is up.

He talks so much, and most of what he says is unnecessary, he's overly wordy about simple concepts. He does not have any empty fro student's situations or grades. His class averages are usually very low, which he is aware of, as his tests are based on concepts that he never mentions are usually in a small section somewhere in the textbook.

He seems annoyed when you ask questions, what he teaches you in class are like 20% of what is going to be on the test. You would have to do like 60-90 pages of reading and take notes on your own and basically teach yourself for the rest. He puts in barely anyeffort to give you a good reply when you email him for help and he just doesnt seem caring.

He talk a LOT, but only about 20% of is relevant to course materials. Mostly a self taught class. It's a two hour class at the second half he discusses the article basically the only thing he will talk about that's on the exam. The rest is basically memorizing a super expensive e-book that he forces students to buy. A book that he co-authored,

Had To take this guy for BU111 and it was not fun. He made it unnecessary hard and did not care about students at all. If you ask him questions he talks down to you. Never again. This class was not it.

Definitely not a good teacher but a passionate speaker, he never stop speaking and lectures are boring, you couldn't learn much for tests. he doesn't care if you can really learn something from it, the tests are hard and he don't even give you enough time. (Never try to apply for his online lecture), Good Luck with this guy!

Worst professor ever. Do not care about students at all considering the current situation of the pandemic. Tests are very limited in time so beware. Always talk down to students. Good luck.

Gives very limited time for tests, especially midterm! You will lose marks and feel upset at the fact you couldn't answer in time for the short answers since they are loaded with so many different parts and they expect you to write very detailedly. He also gets annoyed if you ask him questions and makes the students feel incompetent at times.

Do not take his class if it's not mandatory, this man makes you read his book like it's the bible, the website is laggy and so is the book. He Doesn't go through any of the things in class but still expects you to know it for midterms. Looks down on students and is always annoyed when you ask him anything. Midterms are just unfair in design

He's the most extraordinary professor I have met in my life. He speaks like he has swallowed a dictionary every lecture. You will want to listen or record his notes in class, haha and try to pay attention... Tests are hell unpredictable, so solely memorization of his heavy textbook is not enough, it requires critical thinking and speedy answering.

Worst professor to ever exist, lectures are boring, everything relies on the textbook he wrote himself. Memorize articles and the textbook for short answer questions. No point in asking him questions because when you do he will give off a bad vibe, and he will be annoyed with you. Group project only depends if you get good group members or not. GL

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never take a class with this prof

if it weren't for the learning catalytics there was no way i wouldve joined his class. tests are dumb he doesn't even show what you did wrong.

I couldn't jot down any useful points during the lecture, even tho i did pay attention during class. I think it will be better if you record the lecture, so that u can refer to it before the tests (in the last two tests, he required us to answer the points discussed in the lecture.) I attend the class because of the learning catalytic

Worst professor I hav had. His tests are impossible to do, if you do not include the words he wants, he will fail you. Read the textbook chapter and the articles, make connections between everything and memorize everything. Bizcafe is a mark booster so make sure you do good on that. Horrible prof, he does not care about his students and talks a lot

This guy waste his own time monitoring all the students whether they commited an academic offenses like he is patrol.. he sends student information to dean office what a gorup of students say they meet for the quiz which is not an academic offense... He doesnt even teach the material properly in Lecture, definitly not qualified to be a professor

pain.

Doesnt really teach in the lessons, just assigns readings so its more like you teach yourself. Wasnt very patient with new students.

Your test is so hard I cant even finish the whole test and its so frustrating

Students pay thousands of dollars to take this course and this guy only relies on the textbooks that ar both mandatory and written by him. Lectures are just him talking non-stop and repeating himself about an article about god knows what. He spends more time talkin about his intellectual property and how students will get an AO rather than teaching

One of the worst professors ever to have. He's the only one teaching the course, and he makes it way harder on you. He doesn't record the lectures, quite unhelpful, not a nice person, and his lectures are just terrible. He posts useless slides after his last lecture. It is hard to follow/take notes during his lectures.

Give us more time for exams, your "short answer questions" makes us write essays. 1 hour is not enough.

This is one of those courses where you're on your own, and even then, you have to hope he doesn't hunt you down.

He's just so horrible.

He loves to give hard work and drop students. Most of my upper-year friends took this MGM course twice for their first year because he didn't let them take a good mark to get into the post. He speaks so fast but you have to write it down because you won't get anything from just looking at the presentation pages. A lot of assignments.

Everyone warns you about ECO101 but no one warns you about this horrible class. Prof is very unforgiving, and talks at 1000 words per second. Everything he teaches is a repeat off the textbook and the lectures are pretty useless. No way to improve in this class b/c he doesn't even give your midterms back to see what you did wrong. AVOID THIS CLASS

Worst prof ever. Doesn't care about anyone. Has the worst lecture style ever where he just rambles. Makes you buy his glitchy textbook. Has wifi problems then blames students if HE cuts out. Refuses to listen to students concern. I took him because I had to but my god if you have the option, chose another prof. His TA's are horrible too.

The content is very interesting but the only problem is that his readings are very very very unnecessarily long. He also likes to restate the same exact thing in 10 different ways. His exams are a bit fair but he only gives you an hour so you really have to manage your time well. Don't take MGM101 if you don't have to.

Management is a really great course, but the prof made it crazy difficult. If you don't read the textbook you WILL NOT pass. You need to put in a lot of effort in order to get a good grade. Don't email the prof because he'll just say that you should know all of the info. Don't take this course unless it's mandatory. The class overall is manageable.

Tough grader! make sure you connect the articles to the textbook

Colonel Sanders hates his students this guy is doing this prof stuff as a side gig he has a whole other main hustle he focuses on you and your class would be an afterthought

Avoid him

Doesn't teach anything in class. Rambles on and on about useless topics. Doesn't show up on the last lecture before midterm... just avoid him...

Do not take this course. If you must, just remember all your textbook content.

Just don't.

boring lectures, literally just memorize the textbooks and know the articles and you're chilling.

Terrible exam markers tbh whoever marks his exams has mental issues, needs to be suspended from university for marking tactics

Professor does not believe in feedback and is very self centered. In all his lectures discusses his family issues and only devotes 20 mins for the most important part of the class - the content.

Good luck

David Swanston, is a horrific teacher. For your first class, his main goal is to put fear into the hearts of the freshman. He has a famous saying, "look to your right, look to your left, by the end of the year only one of you will remain." Boastful about his success and the only important part about his lectures are when he covers articles.

If it weren't for the fact that MGM101 is a required course for me, I definitely wouldn't take it. Remember one thing, once you see the name (Dave Swanston), if you can avoid taking this class, then definitely don't take it.

This man comes in once a week, yaps all lecture about useless information, puts on a movie clip and dips.

Just awful. UTM needs to fire this man. He's the gatekeeper for making POST. You need to get through this class, where all that you learn is how to read a textbook. You need to memorize 600 terms (literally, there's a quizlet with 580+ terms in it) in order to pass. Dave needs to be replaced.

Terrible experience in my first year in university

This professor makes an extremely easy course very difficult. His lectures consist of information that is not relevant to the course and will end up with you having more questions than you did before. If you don't write exactly what his words are on the tests, don't expect anything greater than a 50%

I had him last year. Dreadful. He's repulsive, insufferably arrogant, and dripping with condescension. His extreme arrogance is eclipsed only by his blatant racism, making life a nightmare. His basic courses are tainted by toxicity, making the experience thoroughly unpleasant.

In short, you're going to memorize a $100 textbook and get screwn over by the midterms. Prof Swanston was one of the first classes I've ever taken at UTM and here are some tips: READ THE WHOLE BOOK, Study until your eyes bleed, and pray for a good Bizcafe group. Supposedly it's a mark booster, but my group did nothing and my mark dropped.

He says to not memorize for the tests, but that is the only way of passing the course. I went to speak with the Prof and for 20 minutes and he completely went around my question not even answering it. I hope UTM can find another MGM Prof that will make the course enjoyable, and actually beneficial, as I leave this course not remembering anything.

Grading is unfair, and very harsh. The prof said there are many possible answers, but when I saw the rubric the TAs only look for specific answers and wording. TAs are also not paying attention to everything, as I found many things that they missed and I had to request a remark, which got accepted.

It's not supposed to be a hard subject but he made it hard. The worst experience of my freshman career came from him.

I JUST WANNA PASS WHY GOD WHY

Would not take again.

The textbook is unspecific. His lectures are all over the place. There are no past papers or practice questions accessible to prepare for exams. A massive chunk of your grade is earned through a group assignment which hinges on how use(full/less) your group members are. To do well, just memorize the textbook and the weekly articles. Reread ur notes

Memorize the textbook, even if you find it boring. Memorize the particulars of each article. Focus on memorizing the concepts in tittle-scripts, the nitty-gritty stuff isn't really tested too much beyond definitions in the multiple choice sections of the examinations. Knowledge of the articles will be tested in the essay questions.

Makes the course way harder than it needs to be.

Prof Swanston's lectures are disorganized snoozefests which lack structure, much like the rest of the course. If you're taking MGM101 to meet requirements for commerce, good luck. As an elective, it'll tank your GPA so just take another course. btw find a Church Community on campus to pray for a productive group for the BizCaf simulation.

he's useless when it comes to understanding the course material but more useful than a ham sandwich

thr professor gives always negative vibes and keeps on complaining all the time.

He isnt the best, goodluck if you have him (current reader)

Horrible teacher, he doesn't care about any of his students and is happy that half his class fails. He tells students that they're going to fail. focus on the articles in class they come up every test, and memorize the book cuz his slides are useless. focus on the simulation try to do well in that its very easy. other than that good luck.

He yaps the entire lecture about useless stuff, wasting time and incredibly boring All you can do to learn is just self-study through the textbook. You must read an article and watch his Zoom recording weekly, but those recordings are useless.

This boy just says the same thing in different words for 20 minutes. This some circular reasoning explanation of teaching.

Never take his class. Man is a professional yapper. He doesn't stop talking about useless information and wastes an hour of the lecture on repetitive stuff he has told us in every class. He will demotivate you till you feel like dropping out. -10000 aura. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND.

Don't take his class

Disrespectful, and yaps about unrelated stuff for the first hour every lecture

just sadness and pain

jjjust sadness and pain

Yikes, lectures very tedious and early

absolutely never again

Avoid unless you like long rambles about how everyone in the class is doing terrible, then, asinine tests designed by GPT probably. Seriously, this dude somehow manages to make a business class hard.

Terrible Class

Worst proffesor I ever had, wastes the entire classes time in the lectures, grades unfairly, is completely useless to the course and makes an easy course as hard as possible

You don't have to go to the lecture; he is just yapping for 2 hours every week. The test is not that hard, honestly, but it is just pure memorization

lecture is useless, just read the textbook by yourself

OK I just got finished with MGM101 best thing you can do is to literally skip lectures and just read the textbook and be able to recite every word. The yapping this guy does for hours is just not important the only thing that matters is the textbook. The tests are hard and the group project you have to do is awful.

If you think Swanston is a good prof, you have problem

you don't really have any choice but to take Swanston for mgm101. Grading is pretty bs, and lectures are pretty useless

His lectures are useless don't go to them. He spends the whole 2 hours yapping about the fact that you need to study. Just read the textbook and hope whoever's marking your test likes your answers.

Worst professor at UTM. Lectures are 100% useless, NEVER attend them. Do not expect to get anything from him.

His TA's mark hard and make sure you read the textbook

The textbooks are written by him, they are extremely non-concise. The lectures are 2 hours (almost entirely nothing is said), and at 9am on Monday. The midterms are on saturday 9am also just to spite the students. The first lecture he said half the students will drop out and the midterm averages are ~50%. He cannot teach what he wants us to learn.

This dude has got to be rage-baiting or something man. There is no way you can teach such an easy course and make it seem so impossible without REALLY trying.

Super demeaning indvidual who treats teaching like a side gig, not a good educator or person overall. Oh yeah, he also went on a tangent explaining how Hitler is a great example of someone who displays traits of an "effective leader"

Guy just rambles on about nothing the whole lecture and wastes everyone's time. Definitely just skip class and instead read textbook, articles, slides, do weekly quizzes, mylab practice questions. Dont bother trying to understand the topics, just memorize them. Tests are brutal, train yourself to write fast and effectively. Usually not very nice.

terrible. literally don't go to lectures. stay home and read the textbook and look at the articles he assigns as lots of the questions on the tests are based off of the articles. just apply textbook knowledge to the articles. also hope you get a goof bizcafe group.