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Quality3.9
Difficulty23%
Would Retake92
Reviews23%
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What Students Say
“Avoid her at all costs”
BLAW3050 - 1.0 rating“One word sums up Linda as a person & a professor "AWFUL"”
BLAW3050 - 1.0 ratingClass Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
85%
Textbook Required
55%
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MGMT4140
5.0
(1)BLAW3000
3.2
(16)ISMG4900
2.7
(15)MGMT4120
2.7
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2.5
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4.2
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4.0
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Reviews (92)
Lots of busy work, but good class. Pizza is always a good thing on Tuesdays though. Gotta love the 2 for Tuesday at Dominos.
PHENOMINAL
Great class and learning experience - the real world projects were invaluable. Pizza, religion, and project management - how much better can it get?
One of the most inaffective teachers I have encountered.
She has some kind of god complex syndrome. She acts as if she is better then the people she teaches. TAKE THE EGO DOWN A NOTCH.
not helpfull teacher
Yikes, voices her opinions. Lots of outside work and group project. Lectures tough to listen to.
Fried is a good professor but her tests are DAMN HARD. Make sure that you study both the lecture notes AND the textbook as well. The case studies she assigns are easy and she gives out lots of extra credit.
Fun Class, Always remember the word "SCOPE". One lecture she said "SCOPE"47 times in a 5 minute span.
Linda was a great prof. to all those who didn't like her... it was the jackets right?
This woman has absolutely no business teaching graduate-level courses. She is completely ineffective and of no help to her students at all. Her "lectures" are ramblings taken straight from whatever chapter she's covering - no notes of her own and none for the class either. Hands down the worst prof in the MBA program.
She gives inconsistent directions and play favorites. I would not recommend taking her class if your goal is to LEARN something beyond what you would just by reading the textbook. Frankly, she shouldn't be teaching business classes. Her BLAW 4120 class was barely tolerable; this one was not.
Linda is a great teacher. She prepared me for law school, especially contracts. Her tests are hard, but you WILL learn. She keeps it interesting and is very pleasant to speak with. She is a cat fanatic, and knows everything about BLAW.
She's a good speaker but not much good info in lectures. Vague assignments with no requirements. The homework is just busywork. She teaches "information systems project management", but announces on the first day that she won't teach with any regard to IT because it's useless.
EXTREME lack of direction/clarity on assignments, information overload, mostly irrelevant information (apparently) as pertains to the real world. Test way too long with too little time. Makes class far more difficult that it needs to be. Tries to be "tough." Does curve though, which is helpful for those who just plain aren't interested.
I really enjoyed her class, and felt like I learned a lot. However, her tests are extremely long and difficult. She curves a lot, but some students still struggle. She is very knowledgeable but lectures extremely quickly, and sometimes loses people. Overall I good professor for a challenge but make sure you are prepared for a lot of work.
Lots of material - but she organizes it well and keeps it interesting. The key to this class is simply attending and paying attention
Her lectures are way to fast to take notes, then the test material is based off of some of the stuff she lectured about, but a lot of it was never covered. To be fair she does curve the tests, so I still got an A- despite missing a lot the questions. She is also very rude to students. If you ask questions she rolls her eyes and looks annoyed.
So this will be my third time taking fried (ENTP 3OO0, BLAW 3000, BLAW 4120) and ya she's kind of a hard teacher. But if you're into outrageous stories, writing papers that you don't have to put a lot of effort into, and failing tests that are curved so much you pass, then you'll love her!
Good Teacher. Steep Curves. Very Fair.
Prof. Fried is very knowledgeable in her subject. She has a lot of experience as both an attorney and educator. Her lectures and tests are based off of class slides, so study those and the key terms she gives out and you will be fine on her tests, though they are pretty tough.
This class was a average. I stuidied really hard for the first test and failed but got an A after the curve. I don't like the heavy curve set up so this class was not for me. I ended up getting an A but feel like I learned nothing. I never used my text book and taking notes was difficult because she is all over the place. I would'nt take her again.
As long as you do the work according to her requirements you should do fine. The tests are difficult but as long as you write as many concepts as possible in the essay questions you will do well on it. An overall learning experience in all of the various aspects of business.
Very difficult to follow along in class and take sensible notes. The curve for our tests was something like 30+ points added to your score. I understand that BLAW contains difficult concepts, but her tests were not geared towards what is a survey level class. Oh, and the stories!!! Try to avoid taking the class as a one night, 3 hour/week class
by far the worst class i've ever taken at cu denver. a lot of busy work for assignments that aren't worth much. the book report assignment was a waste of time. the exams were ridiculous, hardly anything from the lectures were on them. the final project is extremely intensive. the prof is a horrible communicator.
Reading the lectures, her notes and test off the internet.
Shhedule and betwixt, that's all I can say! But for real, it's a lot of busy work, not hard tho. Tests are hard but she curves 2.5x your score at the end. Do the work and you'll be in great shape!
No clear lecture structure. You better be able to take notes as she is just rambling on. Some assignments are just busy work and don't make sense.
Linda is by far the worst professor at UCD. If you want an easy A, sure take her class, but just know you can't get the best of both worlds. You'll leave class annoyed, frustrated, disrespected, etc. She has such a bad attitude. Everything is her way or the highway. Also, I never understand her inconsistent guidelines and expectations 4 coursework
I love Linda! She is such an amazing professor and does the best she can with the amount of stuff she is required to cover. Get ready to write like crazy and study for a few weeks! Do well on the papers and attend class every day! Take good notes and you will be just fine!
The class I took is Property, Law and Negotiation. I was so easy! Just show up to class, write the papers and participate and you will be just fine!
Linda can be all over the place and unclear when it comes to some assignments, but I did learn a lot in this class. Her test are tough, but she likes curving exam scores. The papers weren't lengthy, but she is a tough grader.
Linda's lectures are typically rambling nonsense, the written assignments make no sense, and the tests are too long for the time allotted. As if that weren't enough, Linda has absolutely zero respect for her students, and can't even be bothered to show up on time, and always goes over time by at least a few minutes. Avoid her at all costs.
If I had one hour left to live, I would take a class with Linda Fried; they drag on forever. Seriously, if you like curves, take this class. If you like figuring out what the hell you're doing on a paper instead of having a clear cut outline, take this class. If you like learning, take it with another professor. Attendance is graded.
This was a really hard class for me, even though she curves the exam grades a lot. She would often continue lecturing 5-10 minutes past the end of class and fly through the material, and would expect us to know it on the exam. The assigned papers are fairly easy, but the exams are really hard. A really frustrating class overall.
One word sums up Linda as a person & a professor "AWFUL". I cannot believe they let this lady be in charge of students grades!!! Good luck if you decide to take her class but I certainly wouldn't recommend it.
Absolutely love Dr. Fried, by far one of the best instructors at UCD. In class notes and power points are the easiest ways to get a good grade.
Linda is the worst professor in the business school. Her class is so boring but you have to go and listen to her ramble about random stuff because she takes attendance. Her tests are tough and include so many topicschapters. I didn't listen to my friends when they told me not to take her and I regret that now. Don't make the same mistake.
One of the better professors I've had in my college career. I have learned and enjoyed so much in this class. I took it over the summer and it would have been a lot of work in a normal semester. Her tests are crazy hard but she curves so just study as much as humanly possible.
Heard a lot of stories about how hard this class is but Linda gives you everything you need to pass. Don't miss a class, take good notes. Tests are all based on scenarios so you actually learn something, but they are tough.
Worked harder for this A than any other grade I've gotten and it was worth it, I loved her class. I took excellent notes and did well on the exams as a result. Questions were mostly conceptual. Group project was rewarding and lengthy, but certainly useful as it applies to the real world. This lady has more credentials then she lets on.
Linda has a lot of material to cover in class because she is teaching general law instead of business law. You'll learn a lot of things that you don't need to know. She doesn't break things down enough for you to understand. Have fun reading on your own and teaching yourself. HER TESTS ARE HARD! 60 multiple choice and 4 essay questions in 115 mins.
Avoid Fried at all costs. She is not only lazy, she is rude, racist, and just about the worst teacher in the Business building. She doesn't post grades - makes you calculate it yourself, which is lazy on her party because Canvas/ UCD Access is easy to use. She doesn't know how to treat students with respect. Her tests are insanely long & difficult.
Assigns a lot of papers, however I don't really believe she actually reads them so as long as you do them you'll get a good grade. She'll mark you down for not following her citation guidelines to a T. Her tests are some of the most difficult I have ever taken b/c she only really lectures on definition, not application, which is what she tests on.
Linda was a funny lady and had great stories to tie into her lectures.
Linda was an amazing professor! She makes you work for your grade but you learn so much throughout the class. She gives you all you need to pass her tests. Take advantage of her study guides and you will be fine. I don't think she really reads the papers but she will dock you points if your citations are incorrect. Am taking her again for MGMT4900
Skip and you won't pass- attendance is required. it's the only way you will show up.. Lecture heavy- reads stolen PowerPoints word for word. Any class you will be read business law materials & told how successful she is. youll fail every test but be curved to an A or B. You WILL NOT learn anything... Please I beg you don't waste your time and $!!
She doesn't use canvas, making it hard to keep up with where you stand for the class. She doesn't structure her lectures very well and SUPER disorganized. AVOID HER.
She is very unorganized, and she doesn't have structure to her course material. It is also very hard to see what you have in the course as her keeps an excel file rather than using Canvas. AVOID HER.
Tough to rate. Linda is an incredible lawyer, but not the best teacher. Tests are application-based and lectures are definition-based with 0 overlap. Grades papers based off APA format instead of content. Curves her class because the tests are way too hard. If you have test anxiety and want updates on your grade, DO NOT TAKE FRIED!!
Does not use canvas which makes it difficult to know where you stand. The tests make up majority of your grade. Lectures are difficult to keep up with as they seem unorganized. Just my experience. I dropped and took the other option which I am not regretting.
Hands down worst professor I have had in college. Luckily the curve is big enough on the exams that you will most likely do well in the class, but if you genuinely want to learn something, I do not recommend taking her. She will assign papers without a rubric but grades on very specific details. Exams do not come from resources she provides.
My experience was honestly pretty bad. She really doesn't engage you and likes to talk about herself a lot.. For this class being a business core she really doesn't treat it as such and often is very rude when asked questions or trying to see your progress within her class. Please try to be more organized if you are reading this.
Her tests are difficult. She assigns too may papers. She brags way too much about her life and barely writes down any of her lecture points.
Unorganized, refuses to use canvas, doesn't grade papers on content; rather grades on citations, tests are ridiculously hard and heavily curved, little rude/ standoffish . That all being said, Linda is an amazing lawyer, really knows her stuff, can be really funny, you will learn if you can stay organized. Don't miss class or you'll be lost.
Don't let this class intimidate you. Take notes off of her powerpoints and not her lectures-she goes on tangents. Pay attention to the daily quizzes because those questions appear on the tests. She curves the tests so don't meltdown when you get a 50% on the first one. Don't spend too much time on papers-she only grades your citations!
The class itself is difficult and there is a lot of material to cover, but she tries her best to make lectures interesting by relating to her personal experience. She offers some extra credit here and there. There is a lot of essays but they are short and she really only grades the APA citations. TESTS ARE CURVED HEAVILY. Getting a B is doable
Straight forward person, ask her, and you will get honest answers about performance. Little homework, but tests are tough. 50+ multiple choice, read off study guide, understand the terms. Group project at end. Tough grader on assignments and project. Class attendance is worth large part of grade. Curves tests. Apart from tests, not hard to get A.
A different Hawaiian shirt for each day of the year - she even wears them under her courtroom attire! Owns and operates an exotic animal sanctuary which is used to better understand some concepts about risk tolerance. Strong exam scores can make up for not doing the case studies. I submitted 1 of 6 C.S.'s and showed up to every class to earn a C+.
I really enjoyed this class, but I am not going to lie you need to pay attention to lectures and take good notes. My group got lucky because all of the plans with the architecture school fell through so we weren't graded on much. I will say this. Show up to lecture and you will be golden.
Linda's great for BLAW, but this class was a train wreck. From her inability to properly post files on Canvas to the constant rescheduling and outright cancellation of plans from the syllabus to the lack of feedback on papers (three months to return our first papers!), this class was stressful in a unique way from any other class I've ever taken.
Linda was intimidating at first, but as long as you show up to class and take good detailed notes during her lectures you will be okay. I did do all the Cengage activities including the hypotheticals and the extra credit for those was nice. I didn't use any of the study tool for exams posted on Canvas and just used my notes instead. Good luck!
Linda is very knowledgeable but I don't think she should be teaching. She's not afraid to publicly humiliate you when you ask a question and her midterm covered things that were not introduced until a few weeks after the exam. The homework has nothing to do with her lectures, and she disagrees with the text making it even more difficult to learn
Never taking other class with this professor. Even if she is a good lawer she is very rude. Class is very tough, you skip a class you won't pass. Very few notes provided for all chapters. Not recommended!
She should just stick to practicing law. Her method of teaching is exclusively note taking from heavy lectures and exam study guides of roughly 200 items.
Awesome lady great stories. Super knowledgeable about pretty much everything. Definitely one of the better teachers in the whole school.
The worst professor at CU Denver I have taken. Ever. Will continue class 20+ minutes over time, assignments every other day that require 4+ hours to do, written assignments that people have to no time for (A third of the class didn't even do one of the assignments), exams had 35 point curves. You're expected to fail with this class. Awful class
This class will make you rethink pursuing a degree. When you take this class try to take 3 other classes only because you must prepare for 4-6 hours of homework each week. She know what she is talking about but if you dont keep up she will not care to explain.
You'll get a good grade, but you'll feel like you're failing all semester. She lectures about her own experiences but not really about anything else that is pertinent to the chapter she expects you to understand completely. She assigns tons of homework and has tough exams. She rounded our final exam by 65 points, great, except I learned nothing.
Highly tough grader in essay, each essay worth 3 point while you cant get 3, 1.67 to 2 possible. Highly racist, she always calls non white student names randomly. Her McGraw hill connect book has over 60 chapters while she teach 50 of that in 16 weeks. Her lectures are 80 to 85 minutes despite classes are 75 minutes. There is 56 question in exam.
tells stories all class makes you do 10 hours of connect a week to make up for what she doesnt teach
hardest class ive taken looks at you in disgust if you ask a question.
This class was taken over Zoom so keep that in mind. While Linda is friendly enough, I feel like she flies through content without ensuring comprehension. The tests are very application based to the point I feel like actual lawyers would have trouble with them, and no notes or any other aids are allowed during them. Good Luck
Linda should not be in charge of curriculum planning. She forces you to adapt on the fly with little to no instruction. She forces you to do 4-6 hours of connect due to her storytelling In class. She will cut you off in your presentation and count everything against you. Most of all the average for all of her tests are 50%. Goodluck.
RUN TF AWAY. This class is an absolute rock in your shoe. If you can get intern credit somewhere else you should. She is wicked smart but is terrible at explaining things, her material is all over the place and hard to follow. For most majors you only need a D- to pass and it's not worth the effort for anything higher. Get ready to google.
Seriously reconsider taking any course with this professor. She does not know how to explain anything well or teach. She makes everything 10 times harder than it needs to be and gives hours upon hours of unnecessary homework.
Every class, she lectures from notes that she's had for at least a decade with no visual component to follow along. Her exams were incredibly difficult with way too many terms to memorize. I got a 25/50 on the MC and still got a 98% after the curve. She sets you up to fail and gets pleasure from telling you how bad you did. It's time to retire.
She lectures off of a paper and makes no sense while teaching. She knows what she is talking about but doesn't know how to teach it. I learned more from the 20 assignments due per week than any amount of hours sitting in her class. Be ready to teach yourself everything and confused!
This is a very easy course I managed to pass this course with a B by doing the bare minimum the only reason I went out of my way to write this review is to explain to you guys this is honestly the weirdest and most annoying human being on this planet likes to make things difficult when they really aren't
Her lectures are irrelevant to the material in this course and she relies heavily on CENGAGE. Alot is through Cengage, and if youre doing well on that practice platform don't expect for it to translate over to the content of her online course. It's redundant and time-consuming, if you're looking for student/work-life balance don't take this class.
Doesn't lecture about anything important and the amount of connect assignments is too much.
Extremely confusing class, has no knowledge of canvas. Modules are filled with useless information, outlines, and powerpoints that are not related to the lectures or numerous connect assignments. SO many connect assignments.
Online class and in-person class have the same content and assignments if you're using connect. Except in person she treats you to absolutely useless lectures that have nothing to do with the tests. Take this class online or avoid it overall. It's so bad
The worst teacher I have ever had. She is extremely rude to her students and the first exam had a 50% average. She literally told the class that the school told her to make the exams as hard as she could and if you saw you were running out of time to just click random answers. I have never had this much homework for an online class. DO NOT TAKE
She has a lot of great stories and has a TONS of experience as a lawyer from back in her day. tough grader and grades on attendance, but she is reasonable. There may be stress at first on what your grade is, but just work hard, participate, and trust the process and things will be okay.
Extremely offensive. She's downright rude and completely out of pocket. Unbelievable amount of coursework due every week, usually about 10 hours a week until you start getting the hang of it. Exams are legit impossible to complete due to lack of time. I think the best exam grade out of any exam in the entire class was about a 75-80%.
Extremely rude and offensive. Said some things that were across the line for sure. 10+ hours a week for coursework. Highest exam grade all year was a 75-80%. I would not take this course, glad it's over and I got out with a decent grade but it was a very long semester.
I am currently taking her business law course - which I would encourage anyone to if they were doing the business minor. She does not post any grades - so you have no general idea how you're doing - until after the final exam. Terrible method to encourage students to achieve. Trash - take someone else.
I do not recommend taking this professor's class. She will leave you a ridicules amount of homework for no good reason. She also is very old school and does not post grades so you do not know of your passing the class or not. Her class is set up for you too failed.
Respectfully, I would never take Linda again in my life. I am a straight-A student, I am going to fail this class. Expecting people to do a mandatory assignment at 8:30 am on a weekday while many of us have class, it beyond deplorable. There is so much work as well, like 15+ hours a week.
Take this class if you want to mess up your GPA. Worst teacher I have ever encountered. She doesn't even teach! Here tests are nothing like work or practice exams. I don't know why she has a job here!
I never rate professors but this experience has been so awful that I felt that I had to spread info on this professor. At no point during the semester will you know your grade as assignments are never graded. Exams are extremely difficult and nothing like the homework or practice exams. The semester has ended and I still do not know my final grade.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
85%
Textbook Required
55%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.89 avg changeRatings by Course
MGMT4140
5.0
(1)BLAW3000
3.2
(16)ISMG4900
2.7
(15)MGMT4120
2.7
(3)MGMT4300
2.5
(2)Difficulty by Course
BLAW3050
4.2
MGMT4300
4.0
BLAW3000
4.0
BUSN6710
4.0
MGMT4370
4.0