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“She is the best lecturer if you are to learn ethics; I enjoyed her lectures very well, and she explained the subject matter through real-life examples”
Bus621 - 5.0 rating“She is a good professor with very clear expectations”
Bus621 - 5.0 ratingClass Info
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Reviews (94)
The professor is very smart and highly knowledgeable in her field. She gives practical examples with current events around you and somehow uses those events to explain her points in class. Her classes are also ver informative. The best professor I've had so far in UCW.
This professor is knowledgeable and knows what she is teaching. Clear instruction and not tough for grading as long as you follow her instruction. I would take a class with her again if she teaches other classes.
She is the best lecturer if you are to learn ethics; I enjoyed her lectures very well, and she explained the subject matter through real-life examples. Have quite a workload; weekly discussion questions, three individual assignments, and one group assignment (report & presentation). I would recommend her.
If you are organized and thoroughly follow her instructions, you will easily receive A grade (at least)
The professor is really good and she will guide you on literally everything, such as laws, taxes and banking. Really enjoyed her lecture, but ya she the assignments are heavy on workload. Still you can manage to get really good scores if you stick to her rubric and her template.
Talks too many irrelevant topics in class, wastes time, and has to skip the slides. She expects we learn everything and write a big post on moodle before the class. So the question, what is the class for? She has around 140 students. We have to suffer due to this, like mistakes in grades, last-minute grading n assignment launching. Huge assignments
Her lectures are very good and entertaining. She seems funny and comprehensible at first sight but does not get deluded, her workload is heavy.
she is good to teach whn it comes to group project you will loose ur marks badly, she put all indians in 1 group d we did not get any knowledge from other like they diversity was not in the group and the number we got just 64. if u will take her class u need to do a lot of work with long assignments. U can loose the marks due to group members.
DISORGANIZED. I ASKED FOR PAPER TO BE REMARKED. SHE TELLS US TO DO THE WORK. LAZY. LAZY LAZY. SO FORGETFUL.
No good. Talks and goes off topic. Disorganized and scattered brain. No good. Tough marker and not clear with expectations.Weird class style. needs to go back to school
she put all indians in one group. I want to do nothing and get my white, brazilans and asian students to do all the work.. hahah aha. Put an indian student in each group so we can get A's .
My name is Gurpreet Singh. My humble request is to have only Indian professors. Brown students are grouped together. UCW should be called India University. We Indians do not understand this professor.. Brown power at UCW. Please sir please sir Please sir I beg you.
All indian studnet should go to UCW. Not enough.
She is an excellent professor, and students relate well to writing. After completing her course, I no longer worry about any assignments requiring writing. She will talk about Canadian laws and taxes in class, which is important to students. But I think her political views and the examples she used in class were racist.
Avoid this professor. She is picky while she is confusing in her instructions. Her examples are quite racist. Not good.
Professor is a fantastic person. She makes sure that her students get a good insight of the topics she teaches. Great lectures. great practical knowledge, and sometime she would ask an ethical question that would make to think deeply. She is really good. class is interesting, and she never makes any biased comments. no racist comments, go for her.
Professor Catalan is one of the best teachers I have ever met at UCW. she is giving good marks. I would retake her.
Tough grader
Do as she says. She also gives a template for the assignments. Please follow what she is asking and do it as she needs. She will get you very well.
She is a good professor with very clear expectations. Follow the rubrics, she gives good marks. But make sure your references are reliable, sometimes she is checking each. 2 group projects, 2 Individual assignments and weekly discussions with peer reviews. You will learn how to write discussions similar to assignments. I like to take her again.
She is great professor, receive good knowledge of ethics and Give grades as per rubric.
Prof. Fatima is a great professor, known for her engaging lectures, clear assignments, timely and rubric-based marking, despite negative reviews on the platform. Perform well to ensure good marks. She is not an ethics professor who merely teaches the subject. She inspires ethical living through teaching and promoting ethical behaviour in our lives.
She was best organized Professor at UCW so far I met in my 2nd Sem, She's got lot of experience. All the formats provided bye her and what we have to do is to follow her instructions in assignments. he gives very good marks when you follow rubrics. Those who complain may be seeking marks for granted which you cannot expect from a ethics professor.
Worst professor ever. Don't take her class. She will have you higher in low weightage assignment and lower in high weightage assignments. I got a F grade in an assignment, the weightage of which was 15% and 20% respectively. I got B+ grade in an assignment, the weightage of which was 10%. Her feedbacks are vague and doesn't make any sense.
As International students, we want our professors to be at ease so that we can earn more grades. she is one of them.Follow her rubrics she will definitely provide you with good grades. At last, She is Fun guys you will get to know a lot of things from real-life examples, and extreme experience professors. Taker Her. Thanks
she goes above and beyond in her lectures, using real life examples to get the point across. I got 0% in APA for her class and i will still love to take her class again. she is thorough when it comes to grading and i never figured out how to get 100% marks from her class. in all it was a fun and exciting class.. no regrets
Professor is a good grader if you follow her rubrics. Good explanations.
So racist towards Brown students. All Indians unite. Must let the whites, latinos, and asians do all the work. We can party in Surry day and night. party on. INDIA rules.
Yes she talks like a parrot or mouse.
Really Awesome
Too tough on Grading. It is way too tough. very disappointed selecting her.
Professor is excellent and makes the lesson interesting. If you listen to her during class and follow instructions you can get a better grade. I improved my research abilities alot from her class. She gives proper feedback, how to improve. She is kind and encourages in class participation. A true gem!
So bad. needs to go back to sckool.
I am doing my second master's degree at UCW, and she is one of The Best Professors I ever had. You will get good grades if you follow her instructions and rubrics. She even gives detailed templates for all assignments. I loved her classes and all the examples she gave. I will always opt for her if she is ever taking any courses I have in future.
She is the BEST for Ethics. She prepares students for the individual assignments from week 1. She clearly describes the theories with real life experiences. Very cool professor. Clear grading rubric. If we follow her rubric, she gives marks above 80. If you have a chance, go with her. You will learn a lot.
Last review were written by the professor. So insecure. Stay away. She is mean and tough. Doe snot explain things well. Hates brown students. So true. Stay away.
She knows the subject, as an instiller of ethical principles she is faultless. As a teacher, she is not to my taste, she is quite egocentric, she scores extremely low, I learned more about ethics at school.
DONT... SHE WILL START THE SEMESTER BY SPEAKING ILL ABOUT THE STUDENTS WHO GIVE HER A BAD REMARK ONLY TO MAKE HERSELF LOOK A BETTER PERSON. ALL SHE CARES ABOUT IS GIVING POOR GRADES TO STUDENTS WHO TRY THEIR BEST AND EMBARRASS HER HUSBAND. IF YOU TAKE HER CLASS SHE WILL JUST GIVE YOU DECENT GRADES DESPITE YOUR HARDWORK. LITERALLY NEVER HER AGAIN.
Horrible, horrible, horrible.
She is an excellent teacher, and I love her style. She has lots of practical stories to share with every concept she teaches. Some might not like that, but I remember many concepts because of her stories. She has a huge workload but has given all the templates according to APA style; it is just a matter of following the rubric to the dot.
She is a very tough grader. if you want to decrease your GPA and want to fail in this course choose her.
Yes talks like parrot. Rude to the brown students.
tough and mean. stay away
Always putting her husband down. Talks too much about herself. Way too full of herself. Stick with the lessons
If you do not want your scholarship any more and pay other term, go with this professor, very tough grader and she never explains why, it is only if she likes the way you write it will be a good grade, very subjective. She is funny at class.
Just talks all the time about nothing.
Ok. BUT she talks too much. She always seems like an angry all the time. Inconsiderate too.
Hello no.
I dont understand why everyone is saying these comments. I enjoyed her class and she is the best. We have to do our part and don't ever expect she will hand out free grades. if you do your work and follow her rubrics, it is easy to get good grades. I never liked theory papers, but to my surprise, I was so invested in her class.
So bad. Please sir please pass me
She is good grader. Lectures were awesome. You can get good marks if you follow rubrics properly.
I had a very pleasant experience with the professor. She also graded me like A and gave some grace marks towards the end of course. She is strict on her rubrics and timeline. But otherwise she gives all the template for you to follow which makes it easy to begin with. She is also not strict with late coming and attendance.
The rudest professor. Disorganized too. Goes off topic easily and difficult to understand. Talks with his mouth full
Very tough grader, giving you very poor grades. Don't select ever. I have good grades in every subject except ethics.
rude little man all right!
The professor is a tough grader. Speaks a lot but gives a lot of practical knowledge with examples which makes it easy to remember. If you follow her guidelines it will be easy to score good.
Really bad little man. just talks.
As long as you follow her instructions everything will be great. Fun classes.
Tough grader, continuous self-centred lecture method, inconsiderate of late submission not even by 10% deduction, get ready to know about her husband and in-laws stories.
Her classes are full of stories, really exciting and engaging. She also gives you knowledge on various life hacks that you may encounter in Canada. Just follow her rubrics and you will get really good marks.
Please read carefully - It is indeed true that she is a tough grader. But there is a cheat code - Just follow her grading rubric and you're good to go. Apart from the amazing lectures, she also shares a lot of good personal stories which makes the classes more interesting. But it is true that you will have to study and work to get good grades.
I am a brown INDIAN student. This professor is hard. I do not understand anything. Too hard. I only want to get my pr status so I can be a truck driver.
Great professor. great class. Follow her instructions and grading rubrics thoroughly, and you will definitely get great grades. Great human being
Just the best. She will tell what she wants you to write in assignments just follow that and you will be good
She is one of the best professors i had while doing my course. She gives proper templates for each assignments. Follow her rubrics. She is the inly one who can make ethics subject interesting.
Hands down, she should be the best lecturer for Ethics. Very interesting lectures. She devotes one of her classes to teach the work rights in Canada. Her lectures are full of stories which make you remember every concept. Her workload is very high compared to others, but you'll learn. Adhere to her rubrics and templates, you will be graded well.
She is a good professor. her classes are interesting and full of personal examples. if you work through rubrics then you get good marks otherwise never. if she said I will increase your marks at 10 week she speaks lie she never change the marks. she taught about those rules which will helpful for students life, provide extra knowledge in classes.
Professor Fatima Catalan from the Ethnic Studies department was disappointing. Her teaching lacked clarity, and I felt marks were deducted without proper justification. My experience was frustrating, and I would advise others to consider alternatives to avoid wasting time and resources. Choose wisely for a better academic journey.
This professor ha s a big ego. Stay away.
My humble advice is to avoid this professor. She doe snot like brown students. Rude. Needs more training and stay at her day job instead.
All you have to do is follow her rubrics. Ask questions during the class. Show her your assignment and get feedback before submitting it to the portal. She does not take OGL—no weekly quizzes. But there are weekly discussion forums. She is strict on AI use. Other than that, she is the best professor I had so far.
She is nice, she gives very good advices in Ethics class for us who just got here in Canada. I learn at lot from her. She is very clear with her instructions, you have a lot instructions to follow, but if you do what she asks, you will be fine. Her brightspace is very organized. A LOT of reading and writing.
She is the best professor I ever had. She explains everything with practical examples. If you follow her rubrics well then you can earn a good grade.
If you follow the rubric, you will get a good grade. Pay attention to what she said about the assignments and follow her instructions; you can also ask her to check your assignment in class before submitting it. I highly recommend taking her course.
Extremely tough grader with vague expectations and little useful feedback. Even well-prepared work gets marked down harshly. The course felt more stressful than educational. If you value your GPA or learning experience, consider other options.
Professor Catalan is an extremely tough grader and her teaching style lacks clarity. Course material was often presented in a confusing manner, and questions were rarely answered in a helpful way. Expectations felt vague, and grading criteria were not clearly communicated, making it hard to succeed despite effort.
Professor Catalan is a very strict evaluator, and her lectures often lacked clear explanations. The course content was hard to follow, and getting helpful responses to questions was difficult. Grading standards were unclear, which made it challenging to do well even with consistent effort.
Professor Catalan grades very strictly and doesn't explain the material in a clear or organized way. It was often hard to understand what was expected, and guidance during the course was minimal. Even with effort, doing well was difficult due to unclear grading and instruction.
Professor Catalan is an extremely strict grader and her teaching lacks clarity. Expectations are unclear, and support throughout the course is limited. Please save yourself the stress—do yourself a favor and avoid taking her class if you have other options.
This was one of the most difficult courses I've taken—not because of the material, but because of how it was taught. Instructions were often vague, and grading was harsh. I wouldn't suggest this class unless absolutely necessary.
The teaching style was unclear, and grading was unforgiving. Even when I followed instructions closely, the marks were lower than expected. Save yourself the trouble and consider other options if available.
This course felt more like a test of patience than a learning experience. Lectures lacked clarity, feedback was rare, and grading was overly strict. I would avoid taking another class with her.
Catalan's expectations are unclear and her grading is extremely harsh. The lack of guidance or helpful feedback made the class unnecessarily stressful. I recommend choosing another professor if possible.
The course was confusing from the start. Professor Catalan rarely clarified expectations, and even well-done assignments received low marks. Not worth the stress—look for someone more supportive.
The professor is a strict grader and doesn't provide enough support. It's very difficult to understand what she wants, and it often felt like we were being set up to fail. I wouldn't take her again.
Hard grader, unclear instructions, minimal feedback. Even with effort, success felt out of reach. Please do yourself a favor and take someone else if you have the option.
One of the toughest classes I've taken, mainly due to the teaching style. Expectations were vague and grading was intense. If you're aiming to protect your GPA or actually learn, I'd recommend avoiding this course.
rude little man
Ignore what anyone tells you. Professor Fatima is the best; ignore the brown or black-skinned comments; it's a total lie as I am of coloured skin. Her class was full the entire semester, lol; it's for a reason: she's good and the best at ethics!I learnt so much from her storytelling method of lecturing. Take her class, and you will have no regrets!
Tough grading, will not give marks properly don't take it again
She is very good. Just follow the rubric and the instructions she mentioned and you are good to go.
I liked her class, her English is very clear she makes the classes enjoyable, she grades constantly no exams and you don't need to buy a book, every week there are discussions, no OGL, 1 individual assignment, 1 team assigment, the only bad thing is in the final team project the instructions were not very clear, but in general I recommend her 100%.
She's Awesome, you need to follow the rubric, definetly you need to put some efforts to get good grades. she gives so many examples and you never feel bored in class. You will have every week discussions. She gardes fairly. Overall a very wonderful professor.
Worst prof. Treats brown students poorly. We from the great country of India.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
62%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
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BUSI601
5.0
(1)Bus621
3.0
(42)ethics
2.8
(35)MGMT601
1.8
(16)Difficulty by Course
ethics
3.3
Bus621
3.0
MGMT601
2.3
BUSI601
2.0