Onliner

Nichole Phillips - only after the fact did I check out her reviews on Rate My Professor - she has one of the lowest ratings of any LSUS professor. Almost all are atrocious and the class was a nightmare. I checked our her LinkedIn profile and she still lists that she's on the faculty of Winston Salem State University, so I don't know if she's in residence there and works online for LSUS, or vice versa, but she was difficult to say the least. Grading was incomprehensible. One week I'd get dinged for something and then when I'd conform to what was requested I'd get dinged for the change. It made no sense. It was also difficult to ever know what would be on the tests. For example, we might read 75 pages of text, plus outside reading, videos, etc., and study two dozen scholars/theorists who each proposed some hypothesis or theory. And each of those theories might have 5 or 7 or 15 components. Then on the test, instead of asking what the theory was about, we'd get questions such as "How many components of xx theory did this expert offer?" It was timely and frustrating. I made an A, but with lots of effort. My final assignment clocked in at more than 5,000 words. Yep. That's right. It was insane.

I received the same advice, but found MKT701 with Darrat a perfect course to pair with something else. Workload was manageable, only three tests and very doable writing assignments. MADM701, on the other hand. Wow. Extraordinarily time-consuming and an incredibly frustrating experience (even though I earned an A). In fact, MADM701 was the second worst experience of my entire collegiate career (undergraduate, previous graduate school in-class program and now this online MBA). The only thing worse was a Physics class I took as a freshman with no background in it. This was nearly as bad.