WORST TEACHER EVER DO NOT TAKE!!!! DOES NOT KNOW THE MATERIAL, DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO TEACH! AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

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AWFUL...very full of himself. Extremely unorganized. If his class is the only section avaliable...WAIT TIL NEXT SEMSTER!!!

horrible professor..pls do not take him for any classes, he is hard and tough....take him at your peril....

He is very strict about attendance, and you have to post comment on the blog every week. Quizzes is not look like in the chapter which he said to study. Tests are not easy. Sometimes he give another vocab of previous chapters

A teacher who doesnt want to teach so he doesnt. Who has no expirence in the field Who hates showing up to class Who makes you take quizzes on material not covered. That sums up this class.

The transition from campus to fully online was NOT a smooth one. Had to watch long & boring You Tube videos of his lectures. Made us present our group project through Zoom for absolutely no credit. Tough grader on the group project. The "study guides" that he posted were not helpful at all, none of it was on any of the exams. BLAH BLAH BLAH

This is the laziest and worst professor I've had in my three years at CSUF. He would get irritated whenever students had questions on zoom, and the group project had 0 guidelines at all. Luckily, one groupmate knew how to do marketing plans. He does not reply to e-mails. The exams were fairly difficult and completely based on the book and movies.

Worst online professor ive had so far. Extremely lazy with lectures, poorly organized, and seemed to care very little for his students. Would get annoyed with any questions and would end the class before anyone had the opportunity to ask any. Emailed him a question about the project and he didnt respond for a month, one week before it was due.

Do yourself a favor and don't take him no matter what. useless Study Guide, exam sare based on everything he talks about and he doesn't talk about, as long as it's in the book he will add it.

Howard Forman is honestly my least favorite professor at CSUF. The guy is not interesting whatsover, is EXTREMELY unorganized, and honestly responds with smart-ass comments when asked a question. The guy does not give clear instructions and honestly does not reply quickly to emails... DO NOT TAKE HIM.

HORRIBLE! He is so unorganized! I feel like I haven't learned ANYTHING! I feel like his lectures is him just talking and he doesn't make any good points. So annoying just sitting there and not knowing what is going on. I wish he wasn't the only one teaching this subject. Waste of time and waste of money

Beware this Professor does not respond on time. Emailing to contact him is useless. He does not respond to emails. Only a few have said they got a response however I and many others have not. The course is text heavy. If you dont read you will not pass. Not much of study guides either. Would give a 0 is possible. Good luck.

This is the worst class I have ever taken! Has no organization skills and lectures feel so pointless. He gives no clear directions. Doesn't know how to use Canvas properly. Expects you to just understand what he throws at you. You are pretty much teaching yourself. He doesn't seem to care that his students are struggling and confused. Can't email.

this class is unnecessarily hard for what it is. pop quizzes basically every week based on chapter vocab. quizzes you on 10 words out of the 100+ you studied. 50/50 for answering emails. midterms are ridiculously hard, and his study guides ARE NOT helpful. from the bottom of my heart, avoid this man

The textbook is $200! He makes it seem like it is crucial to pass his class, but guess what its a waste of money. He doesn't lecture properly at all. The material is not hard at all, but he makes it hard and boring. You can literally see a majority of class doing literally anything else b/c his lectures are pointless. My advice is don't take him!

the most unorganized class i've ever taken in my entire college career. he administers several pop quizzes, 2 midterms, a group project, HW on GRL, and the final. the course content isn't hard, but he makes the midterm questions unnecessarily difficult. his lectures are extremely boring and can't seem to use his time wisely enough (2 hr class).

The only thing you need to know is DO NOT TAKE HIM. Do yourself that favor and dont do it. If theres literally no one else to take, dont do it and just take another class or no class at all. Trust me, this class is hopeless.

Quite possibly the worst professor I've ever had. He is very rude and sarcastic, and the lectures are terribly boring. Pop-quiz before almost every class, and he expects you to memorize all key terms BEFORE you discuss them in class. If you take him, do all HW (extra credit offered) and memorize key terms, you should get by with a B.

The worst teacher to probably exist at this school. Lazy to teach and rude to students who are actually trying. I have no idea how he is able to say he is a teacher. There is no learning from this man!

If you planning to take him, prepare to deal with his poor attitude+never really teach class materials MOSTLY u will self-learn, self-reading. Believe me. This's probably the waste professor I have ever had in my college experience. I don't even know how he gets his professor job in the first place. Honestly disappointed to be in his class :/

Worst class ever! His teaching skills are horrible. Very unorganized and can be rude. You dont learn anything at all. I waited for the day for the semester to be over. I couldnt take it anymore. It was a bad experience. The material is not hard, but he makes learning just horrible. Dont take him!

Seriously don't take this professor, I took this class with an open mind and I'm beyond disappointed. It's not just how this professor grades, but his behavior towards students. I've tried emailing & explaining to this professor my situation and there's no leveling with this person. Unbelievable on all fronts, I repeat DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR.

A difficult person to work with. Doesnt seem to care for what he does or his students. It was a frustrating and stressful semester. It was a experience like no other and I really hope I never have to take him again.

Boring lectures that give no new information from the textbooks. Very outdated power points. Questions on quizzes have only something to do with definitions and not how good your understanding of the topics is. Puts on two movies from the 80's as material for exams. Would never recommend this professor

Worst professor I've taken at CSUF, terribly designed quizzes that test your memorization rather than knowledge. The final exam was worse as it referenced random statistical numbers/information that he mentioned only briefly during class.

It seems like this professor intentionally structures his course in order to spite his students. As other students here mentioned, he had nonsensical questions on the final exam that had nothing to do with the course material. For example, there was a question about how many times "woo woo" was said in a Rolling Stones song. This is not a joke.

Trust me you dont want to take his class.The class is basically you learning from watching online videos that you have to BUY access for the course. Although the videos are the only source of learning you will get for the course as his lectures are borderline useless as he pretty much babbles on and on about some random stuff

I dont know why he got good reviews. i took his class because the reviews of his class are nice but it was a nightmare. He is very lazy to grade your marketing plan, and it turns at the end of semester 60% of student in the class got an F. He never give the reason, he wont reply your email, HE IS TOUGH GRADER. WORST PROFESSOR!!

He is a bad professor!!! Unorganized, heavy test, wont reply your email. The attandance is not mandatory and his class were boring. I attended his class usually and focus on what he said but still got an C. he is really a tough grader, the marketing plan is a hell. He will give you a bad grade with no explanation. Please dont take him!!

He loves to talk about his distillery and gets off-topic often about his own stories. You must self-learn the chapters first before taking the quiz which is taken the beginning of class as it is about chapters of that day. There is one group project with minimal information and he is not specific about whats required, it is very broad.

He knows what he's talking about; he just doesn't know how to lecture the class with his knowledge. Beware of random pop-quizzes; there are 6 in total for the semester. Overall, a messy professor and his study guides are nothing like the exams. Lectures are not engaging, but he drops one low score from midterm and quiz.

I have never wrote a review before on here but I wanted to save future students. This teacher is absolutely terrible. The questions on the exam have nothing to do with marketing and all to do with how much you remember from in class videos. The instructions for the project are 365 pages (not joking). Do not take this class, you will regret it!

Ignore the suspicious glazing reviews that give 5 "Awesome" review. Half of the people in the class reported him to the dean. Material is not basic. What makes the class hard is the professor. Misleading instructions for project if you use wrong format you will not get higher than a C, quizzes on material he hasnt taught, exam with bad questions.

DO NOT TAKE! Exams are nothing like study guides, lots of pop quizzes that really affect your grade. No structure to the class. Huge group project with absolutely no mention of it in class. Talks more about personal anecdotes than actual material.

Long, boring and not helpful lectures. Unfortunately, this class is outdated. Tests: not easy to get high grade not only talking about 100%.

Do not ever dare to take this professor. There is a pop quiz every class. No one knows what to expect from this professor. No one knows how to study for his exam. All of his exams seem to be on his lectures. Even the things he said were on the exam were not on there. The exams have so many spelling or typo errors. WORST PROFESSOR OF ALL TIME.

There's really not much to say, if you look at all of the 1 star ratings there's a trend you begin to see. There's no way to prepare for the exams, and contradicting sets of instructions on the group marketing plan. One telling you a very specific format while the other tells you to do the exact opposite.

Don't take him. Pop quizzes of that days material. Study guides were not helpful at all. They're based off of what he says in class. He said to just figure out the group project yourselves and if you were to do this for a job they wouldn't guide you. Well he didn't either and he still took off points for structure.

If you noticed that one recent 5 star is probably from one of those students that think he's

The tests he provides do not alway cover topics relevent to the class. He has called off class once already and did not bother to show up for another one recently without giving any notifications to the students. I would highly advise only choosing this professor if this is your last option available.

this dude made us take quizzes on material he didn't even teach us yet. he makes us read the slides first, study them, take a surprise quiz on them, and THEN he reads the slides in class after.

This professor is truly awful. Didn't show up to class, and never said anything. He took an entire week to respond to anyone via email. His canvas is a mess, and his instructions on the massive group project are vague and unhelpful. Lecture-heavy and quiz-heavy. Maybe he's been better in previous years, but he's the worst professor I've ever had.

Just look at the only comments that have 5.0 quality and tell me that's not him. Do you guys want a petty professor? I don't think so.

Tests don't follow the lecture. Expects us to memorize niche parts of lecture. For example, one test question was "What brand shoes did so and so buy for his wife in the movie". How does that have anything to do with marketing concepts?? I have always been a straight-A student and dont mind tough professors. This guy isnt tough, he is impossible.

Every single 5-star rating is so obviously written by himself.

I'm on the verge of dropping this class. He asks us questions that are VERY irrelevant to Marketing and expects us to remember every single niche detail of every lecture that he gives. The Marketing Plan project on top of that makes ZERO sense whatsoever and he barely gives us a plan. DO NOT TAKE HIM.

He's a good guy but not a very good teacher, he'll give you a study guide and the guide won't teach you or help you on the exam. You basically gotta teach yourself everything. He's not a very great professor when it comes to grading and he doesn't know what he's doing half the time, take someone else it's not worth the trouble tbh.

By far one of the worst professors Ive had. Pop quizzes are vocab not a big deal at first, 1-2 chs w/50 words but when he cancels class (or forgets to show up, doesn't tell the class then ghost us for 5 days) vocab can be up to 4chs w/100+ words. No instructions on project due at the end of semester mentioned it once and never brought it up again

Don't take this class even if last resource. If you HAVEto, recommendations: GRL finishasap. Study the SLIDES for popquizzes and create a google doc with each one of them so you can review for the final; midterms have a COUPLE of questions NOT related to marketing, pay attention to every stupid thing he says in class. Even what actors are wearing..

If you find yourself in this class, I recommend that you drop and add another section. It is not necessarily hard to get a good grade, but it will cause immense anguish. His canvas page is the worst I have ever seen. Pop quizzes are ambiguous in wording, and the lectures can be said in half the words.

I usually always give benefit of the doubt to professors. This class was so incredibly difficult, there was no structure. The readings did not even match the slides he goes over in class. The quizzes I will admit are easy points but the exams and the marketing plan are so difficult. Avoid at all costs, WORST professor I've had. 5 star ratings r him

Truly one of the worker professors I have ever had. Didn't show up the first day of school with no explanation. Spent the next 3 class periods at the start at the semester promoting his personal alcohol company rather than introduce us to the course. Pop quizzes are given on material he has not covered and it doesn't align with the textbook at all.

Toughest class ive taken so far.

I'm sure he's a nice guy and prob has decent intentions but he's the type of prof who is doing this for the check. Doesn't really put much effort into making marketing engaging. Exams have nothing to do with what he provides for study guide and his Canvas and class is so unstructured. You have to teach yourself everything and get lucky.