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“MHG was a bad professor”
MGMT2053 - 1.0 rating“She is nice and all, but the way she teaches is terrible”
MGMT2053 - 1.0 ratingClass Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
87%
Textbook Required
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She is a nice lady but makes a class that should be an easy A seem like an advanced level course. Tons of quizzes not to mention if you have an excused sickness or activity she doesn't excuse you for that days class. For ex. if u miss an in class quiz for your excused reason, she says "this quiz will just be one of the ones you drop"
She is a nice lady but is incompetent. Makes a class that should be a easy B and little work A into her own personal hell. Grades touch, doesn't actually teach, no instructions on projects, not well respected by students. As a senior level class I should not be stressing nearly as hard over this class to make a C. The teacher has too many flaws.
If I could give her a 0 I would. She is a very nice lady but yet so ruthless and savage. She gives little to no direction on a project that is a HUGE part of your grade. Save yourself and take it online or see if it is offered by someone else.
Not a good teacher. Not engaging and makes boring material even more boring.
HG seems nice and positive but she makes easy material way harder than it should be. She does not explain material well at all. She also did not explain how to do our final project at all which is worth a huge portion of our grade. The tests are written by her and use vocabulary that most have never even heard. She makes an easy class way harder.
Mrs. MHG was a bad professor. I took this class instead of Accounting 2, but I honestly could've done better in accounting. She never makes it clear what is on the test, gives pop quizes over her boring lectures, and offers little to no extra credit. Our final is over 15 chapters. She is providing us with NO review and no help. So wish me luck..
Would not recommend this teacher at all. She makes what should be a simple and interesting class very boring and unnecessarily difficult. She seems nice but can be very rude and passive aggressive. This is the only class I dreaded going to this semester. Should've been and easy A, but I think a lot of us struggled due to her poor teaching.
She is nice and all, but the way she teaches is terrible. It isn't a fun class to be in, I dreaded every day I was in class. She makes the class a lot harder than it has to be.
Professor HG does not deserve all the bad reviews she is getting. She is a great teacher and can be difficult but makes you work for your grade. Almost every class has a pop quiz that are super difficult old test questions. The classwork is easy to understand but she can make things overcomplicated for no reason. Not an easy A but still attainable.
Not a good professor and makes the class more difficult than it should be. i
This was quite possibly the worst class I have taken at the University. Quizzes were unreasonably specific at times and I learned next to nothing in the in-person portion of the class. We did quizzes and in-class assignments (busy work) while she graded our quizzes, then were released 30 minutes early and were unprepared for tests.
You will be taking very specific quizzes everyday of the class. The only way to really study for the tests is to use the adaptive test prep on cengage. There is a lot of information that is covered, and the group project is pretty challenging (no direction given). H-G is a very sweet person but needs to learn to engage the class more.
Professor HG is really great. She is caring and wants to help you succeed. There are quizzes every day, but she sends out the list of terms beforehand so they are easy. In addition, she gives lots of extra credit. Great professor, would highly recommend!
She is a good teacher, very nice... if you email her about something though she is kind of snarky and not helpful. She makes some shady comments every now and then with a smile on her face so it just makes you feel uneasy... other than that tests and quizzes are super straight forward. Not a hard class
Took this course over the summer, MHG was very condescending with her teaching style. Any questions I had were answered with questions. The final project was to launch a product like "shark tank" there was little to no guidance given for the project and a lot expected. Be prepared to work. Do ALL extra credit opportunities.
If I could give HG a zero, I most definitely would. There is a group project throughout the semester that she gives you ZERO instructions on. There is no rubric on this project and on the work days she doesn't show up. Every time we have guest speakers she also doesn't show up. I hate this class and a I hate her as a teacher. DO NOT TAKE HER.
Professor HG is a very difficult Professor to connect with. She will dock points for missing daily quizzes, but she herself missed more than most students. She left us in the dark for a study session she last minute cancelled on us at 7am. Shes uses a condescending tone when speaking to all students. AVOID HER AT ALL COSTS!
Took this as an online course, and Professor H-G was always great at responding to my questions. Very nice, helpful, and made suggestions when I was "stuck." Project was tough, and we could've used more time for it. Otherwise, would love to have her as a professor again!
Tests are worth 60% of your grade. in class lectures aren't relevant to the tests. Overall class is way harder than it should be. Attendance adds up to little to nothing.
Worst class at the University of Arkansas. Her test are so hard, and the lectures do not help at all. She gives quizzes after every chapter and she is so boring to listen to. Try to avoid her as much as possible if you can. I worked hard and ended with a C. If it wasn't for the extra credit I would be failing this class.
Professor Halvorsen was honestly one of the worst teachers I have had. She does not have the personality to be a teacher. She misses class and review sessions. Also, a group project with little to no instruction then is rude about your performance with her notorious smirk. We were all left blindsided by the whole course.
Vocab lecture, every day. With a quiz, every day. The two are roughly correlated and that's about it. The lectures do not translate into tests well and neither do the quizzes. Take the free points from the weekly stuff she assigns or it'll be difficult to do well. She gives out candy, which is nice. Really not a great teacher though stay away.
MHG is really nice, but the class is taxing and it drains you. It's not that the material is hard, it's that a regular week will come with a dozen homework assignments and two quizzes. The workload is insane. The exams are extremely difficult, to the point that a few of them were curved close to an entire letter grade.
Professor HG was the sweetest and most understanding professor I have had since attending the U of A. She gives away boatloads of extra credit and if you take this course do not miss out on a SINGLE one, because it could potentially make or break your grade. There are in-class quizzes that are very difficult and the extra credit helps balance them.
Dr. Marie Halvorsen-Ganepola, is the worst professor. First off, her teaching style was atrocious where as rather than engaging with the class she would read slides unless it came to jeopardy test preparation which did not help with the test in any way. her feedback is absolutely terrible. i wish i had more characters to really get into details.
HG was super understanding and caring before the virus, and especially afterwords. She communicates well with the class, although the lectures can be a little boring as she reads straight off the slides. She offers a lot of extra credit so make sure you do all of it because it can make up for some of the difficult quizzes and exams.
Profesor H-G is the most caring and kind professor EVER. She is so encouraging and truly cares about her students. I have never had a professor be so willing to help and answer emails as fast as her. Try to connect with her during her office hours or through emails because she will be a great contact to have in the future for rec letters/etc.
I took this class remotely, and I was oftentimes confused on if we would have class. Many weeks she would offer extra credit if we went to a lecture outside of class, and then she wouldn't have class on that week. The tests were hard, but she curved. She was very critical of the group project, even though a lot of her instructions were unclear
HG is not on top of it. She messes up due dates and is very unclear. Her exams are extremely hard and you need to know every single thing in the book to get an A.
Had her over the summer of 2020 and this was one of the easiest classes Ive ever taken. She super sweet and nice! If you pay attention you shouldnt have trouble because its literally a recap of all business classes in one
If you want to get a good grade in any of her courses take advantage of all of the extra credit. I am typically a good test taker but I struggle in her class to get a low B. Extra credit opportunities are the only reason I got an A overall.
I don't understand the hate that Prof HG gets!! She is so caring about her students, offers so much extra credit, and attendance for lecture is optional!! The tests are a little hard but nothing too bad if you study the night before. And extra credit makes up for the questions you miss. I would 100% take Prof HG again. She is the best
Though she clearly understands the material she will cancel classes somedays to attend lectures done about other things. It was more painful then I could imagine to complete her final project when there is barely any rubric to go off of. It is also hard to get her on the phone if there is a problem with your final exam. I would say stay away.
Took her class in summer and loved having her as my professor! Class was very well structured with opportunities for extra credit. Material was based on real life application and we got to watch clips of The Office as they related to class. Matching vocab quizzes and easy exams if you pay attention. She's caring and happy to give feedback on exams.
The lectures are so long
Dr. Marie Halvorsen-Ganepola, is the worst professor. She has been the worst teacher I have ever had in my years of schooling. Her lectures are some of the worst I have ever heard and they are very long and dragged out. DO NOT TAKE HER
She makes it seem like she is organized and upfront with material, but she is not. She plays a movie or video 9/10 times in class then tests us over stuff we never learned. A student asked her about the group project a few weeks in and she never explained it at all and a week before it was due.
She always came to class prepared and with a smile on her face. The tests were challenging but a hefty curve was always added. You have to go to class to do well. She responded to my emails very quickly and was gracious and accommodating. It's not hard to get an A if you go to all the classes and study for the tests.
Dr. H-G is one of the best professors I have ever had in college. I don't know why her RMP rating is so low, if you pay attention to the lectures you will ace the tests. The only thing that I disliked was the Business Plan Group Project, but that wasn't her fault, all sections does the business plan. She is so nice and professional. I recommend!
Business Foundations is such a great course, and this professor is very good at teaching it. Take her!!
All you do is watch movies you've already seen before while she does nothing behind her desk. When she lectures it barely makes sense and most of the information is self-explanatory until you get to the test, and it looks nothing like the work you've been doing in the class.
Do not take this teacher. Out of all the Managing People classes her tests and quizzes are the hardest.
Professor H-G is not a good professor. Although she may be a nice woman, she does not know how to accurately prepare her students for the exams. She will test you over concepts that were mentioned one time in class. The exams are not easy in the slightest, and there are massive curves on every one. This is not a hard class, she just isn't great.
Her lectures are so incredibly boring but attendance is mandatory. There is a group project throughout the entire semester that she gives you hardly any information on. She provides a rubric in blackboard but she grades the presentation with a completely different rubric. The tests are also difficult. I would suggest taking any other professor.
Kind in class, but unnecessarily difficult. Lack of communication only made it more difficult. Did not communicate the high level of difficulty and weeks of effort that would be required for our final group project. It was extremely time consuming, and wasn't mentioned until the week before it was due. Watched movies in class, then gave essay exams
Should be fired. Terrible grader. All she does is put on movies and eat behind her desk.
I have mixed opinions on this professor. She's so sweet but then at the same time weird. The material isn't hard at all, but exams are set up weirdly that makes it harder than it should be. I wouldn't suggest her as a professor, but if you do get her I would just say to study hard for the exams and curves will be added as well.
Lectures do not correspond to anything that is on the test. She puts on clips of tv shows and skims over topics that are tested on. The tests are all application questions, she never goes over how to apply them to situations.
This professor is not good. If you fail one test you are screwed. The tests are also very hard to study for. An A in this class is very unlikely.
She cancels class often yet is very strict on attendance for her students. She regularly puts on movies instead of teaching. The tests are not hard if you study, but they are unnecessarily complicated.
Very long lectures with lots of information, but directly relates to the test. If you take good notes, ask questions, and look over them before the test you will get a good grade. She is very nice if you introduce yourself and pay a little bit of attention. Homework is extremely easy. She is a very nice person and knows what she is talking about.
She's very nice but her lectures are very boring. She takes attendance every single class. She overcomplicates the tests. Always says "I'm not trying to trick you" but makes the questions impossible to understand on the exams.
This Prof is very nice and caring. She will switch around classes to accommodate students but the way the exams are set up makes it very hard to get an A. I have all A's except this class. It is very lecture heavy and the exams are very hard to understand. She always talks about how she's not trying to trick us but the exams are confusing.
Marie-Halvorsen-Ganepola is a very sweet, kind, and caring professor. However, there are two tests throughout the semester that are worth a lot of points and additionally a huge group project. Full of watching videos and taking quizzes or doing papers on those videos or movies. I recommend taking another professor for this subject if possible.
Test questions have up to 8 answer choices with misleading questions that make you second guess yourself. Other teachers in this course have the standard 4 to 5 answer choices not select all that apply on every question
There are 4 tests and 4 quizzes. Takes attendance 15 time throughout semester. Lots of information in the class, same as every MGMT class. Very easy to cheat with phone on tests and quizzes.
I wish there wasnt a character limit so I can go in depth on how bad this professor is. She creates her own exams and doesnt use the same exam as every other professor. 4-8 multiple choice answers Very in depth questions for exams with very vauge exam reviews (not a review, its learning objectives) Redundant HW questions that doesn't relate to exam
Unnecessarily difficult for a class that teaches you common sense. Exams are extremely hard for no reason. HW and lectures don't line up with the exam questions she makes. Throws up movies half the time that dont help with the exams (Attendance necessary) No exam review, just a list of broad topics she expects us to fully understand.
Nice lady but extremely difficult class! Homework does not line up with test or quizzes at all. Test have no review just learning objectives that do not help at all. Reads off slides for whole class. Test questions are very in depth and for no review.Would not recommend taking at all.
Extremely difficult class! Homework does not line up with test or quizzes at all. She does not give you a review for any test. She claims she is not trying to trick you but the test make no sense.
She just reads off of the slides and plays movies. The tests are directly off the slides but there's too much information and she doesn't teach at all. She's not tech savvy and requires lock down browser but if you download it will break your computer. She is very slow and attendance is graded randomly. Gets proctors for tests.
Awful at lecturing. Puts 4-6 chapters into one test which makes it extremely difficult because there is so much information at one time. She talks like her lectures are optional and unimportant. If she talked with a little more authority and confidence I may have been willing to listen to her a little more.
Do yourself a favor and take anyone else.
If you have her for managing people, drop her instantly. By far the worst professor I have had here. Takes attendance twice a class, claims tests are multiple choice but have 8 different choices designed to trick/make you second guess. Best part about everything is she claims the tests aren't designed to trick you, which is a blatant lie.
Be prepared to be bored, its literally her reading off the slides the entire time or playing clips of the office. Minimal guide on how to study and hard to improve grade as theirs only 3 tests, 3 quizzes and low waited homework. Random attendance quizzes in class, so you need to go as attendance strongly affects grade. Boring/ unnecessarily hard
Lecture Heavy, GO TO CLASS, the tests are the things she says in class so pay attention.
Lazy teaching: Reads off slides and plays movies. Creates extremely difficult tests that have 4-6 answer choices each making it hard to take. Lectures are extremely slow and do not correlate to test questions. Makes a course that should be easy very difficult. Overall very awful teaching and I don't recommend taking this course with her.
This professor is very sweet but don't be fooled, her class is a pain. She said at the beginning that she would take attendance 12 times the whole semester, no. She took it every class.Very long boring irrelevant lectures. Tests literally had 8 possible answer choices. Like what. This class should be easy but it was very hard for me. Save yourself.
The classes are a lot of lectures and extremely boring. She reads off of slides the entire time and never know how to follow what she is saying. Stay away!
All movies, no teaching, extremely difficult tests. Overall lack of effort shown, doesn't forgive any type of absence. Hard to contact.
The actual course is a lot of reading. Get ready to do McGraw Hill smart book assignments that can take almost 2 hours. Exams are downright confusing and literally will confuse even the best students. I was forced to take her due to my generated schedule for first semester. She also said she wouldn't take attendance every class, but she did.
I would not take another class by her again. Overall the coarse should be easy but it is not. The homework assignments will take hours each week. Lectures are painful and she randomly takes attendance and if you miss it will lower your grade A LOT. Tests are hard and the questions are misleading and try to trick you. nice lady, terrible professor
Honestly gets a bad rap. She's a sweet lady but does expect you to dedicate the time and effort to make the grade. Group project kinda blows but a third of the class is watching movies and the "closed book" assignments are online and 2 attempts so, ya know. If you pay attention and read your book you'll do fine
Only reads off slides, and hours of homework a week for a class that it is not necessary in.
Save. Yourself. I read all the reviews about this teacher before choosing her and still gave her the benefit of the doubt. do not do that. she seriously has no idea what she's talking about. she claims attendance isn't mandatory but takes it daily. her tests are nearly impossible to study for. not worth it at all
She seems to always be distracted in class and does not give any prep or tips what so ever for the exams.
She is a lovely person, but her class is absolutely awful. Extremely disorganized, the tests are ridiculous and will try to confuse you with the answer choices. Gives no help as to what you should study and overall is unnecessarily difficult.
This class is so boring. Nothing about it is engaging and she reads off the slides. She takes attendance every class and assigns long smartbooks every week. She seems like she could be a sweet person but this is honestly one of the worst classes I've taken. This should be an easier course, but the tests have 6 different answers per mc question.
Please do not take this professor. She is very sweet, but this course is supposed to be pretty simple to pass. I struggle on every quiz and test I take because she gives no input on how or what to study. I highly, highly recommend not taking her. I hated this course.
She is sweet but literally only reads off of PowerPoint every class, and has a few guest speakers. She doesn't give you a study guide and makes you create your own. We only had 2 exams, along with a final. There's a simulation throughout the course, but it seemed so pointless, and made up 200 points in the grade book. Also so so much hw every week.
Do not take her as a professor, by far the worst teacher I've ever had including high school. I don't know how she is a professor. When she teaches she shows no enthusiasm just sit down the whole time and in a monotone voice. In addition her reviews for her class are not helpful at all if she even posts them
She was a nice person and would explain things well if you had a question. However, sometimes me and my friends would ask her the same question and she would give us two completely opposite answers and was never clear. Other than the attendance you could basically learn online because all she did was read straight from the ppt.
Found her to be very boring and the tests and quizzes were very hard to study for. Most of class never paid attention because shes very monotone and boring. Would rate a 0 if i could nice lady but awful class
Biggest problem with this class were the tests. The material is really easy and it felt like she tried to make the tests tricky intentionally. I didn't like how she would show us a clip from the office or a movie and then ask about that clip specifically on the exam, it felt kinda unprofessional. Overall if you go to class and study its easy.
I've taken 2 classes with Professor HG now! She always has a smile on her face and never misses a "good afternoon class" she explains topics clearly and always stops to ask if we have any questions. She loves teaching and clearly had an impressive career as a manager (one time she told us that she was on the hiring team for creating TSA after 9/11)
If you take her you will fail. She doesn't really teach you anything and you will struggle a lot. Avoid the headache and take someone else!
Nice lady, terrible teacher. She will explain a "group simulation" briefly at the beginning of the semester and then will you give you no other explanation for 16 weeks. At the end of the semester she will fail you on the simulation for unknown reasons. She doesn't care about you, or your grade. DO NOT TAKE.
She's not a good teacher. She is boring and reads off a slideshow every day. We had a semester-long 200-point simulation, and she didn't put the grade for it until 2 hours before the final exam... Students with other professors ended with an A in the class because this course shouldn't be that hard, but I guess with her it is... Do not take her.
Do not take if u want a good grade!!! save urself money and ur time!!! me personally would of chosen anyone else!!!!!!!
Just don't take this class. Lectures are so disgustingly boring. Doesn't round up 89.7 to an A. Exams are unnecessarily tricky. I did fine in the class but if you can get a different professor, do it. She's challenging but not in the good way. Fought tooth and nail for an A.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
87%
Textbook Required
0%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.79 avg changeRatings by Course
MGTM2053
4.0
(1)MGMT4243
2.3
(14)MGMT2103
2.2
(23)SEVI2053
2.1
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1.8
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4.3
MGMT2053
4.2
21003
4.1
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