Bryan Barbieri - Concordia University, Montreal, QC

Professor: Bryan Barbieri

Department: Business

College: Concordia University, Montreal, QC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MARK491M
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Took Bryan's Sports Marketing course and loved it. Had great guest speakers (Marketing Director of F1 & Montreal Canadiens) and kept everyone engaged + interested. If you do the weekly readings and participate, you'll do fine. He reminds me a little bit of Brent Pearce. You have a cheat sheet for the final + he give the questions in advance!

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MARK491M
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I really enjoyed his sports marketing class. He is a fair grader and his class discussions are always interesting. Like most marketing classes if you show up to class, participate, and do the work youll be fine

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

One of the worst prof's I've ever had. Rude when you don't answer the correct answer. Rambles on for the first 1.5 hours about why the topic he is going to talk about is important. Once he gets the topic he barely knows what he's talking about. Tests have nothing to do with course material. Around 4 readings to do per class along with assignments.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MBA610
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Inspirational prof. Dynamic speaker. Very critical and demanding. Gives exam questions at the beginning of semester, which by no means guarantees that you'll know how to answer them by the end. Get prepared to work and read a lot.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MARK491
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Learned nothing new or applicable. Course material a mix of Mark 301-302-305 w/ sports as examples. Prof was nice, but was all over the map in lectures, & didn't know half of what he was trying to say (recommend fact checking when spews hot takes). Exams are extremely specific, classes are vague. TOO MANY ADDITIONAL READINGS

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He's an extremely nice guy, always willing to help and answer questions during or after class. Compared to other MARK301 profs, he grades much harder on assignments. During lectures, he rambles and the material is extremely dull. Just be sure to read the online texts thoroughly; everything for the final is taken from the readings.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MBA610
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

It felt like an undergrad course. toomuch focus on exam questions... and his final was strange. (asks you to come up with answers for few marketing questions, no collaboration between students is expected.) so, you dont know if you were working towards getting right answers. all fluff.. his lectures were entertaining and loooonggggg....

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MBA610
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Not up to date with contemporary marketing.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He is a good guy, yet I didn't learn anything from this class. Lectures are pointless seeing as we don't discuss much of the readings but rather ramble along. You are expected to participate but there is nothing to say really. I would say go for another teacher, way to much work for what you get at the end.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: C-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Just avoid this teacher at all costs.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Bryan is very approachable and kind, however his classes are quite long and there is a lot of reading involved. He doesn't discuss the readings much so you don't know what to expect on the final and he doesn't explain the math. I had to review other teacher's materials.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Strongly disliked this course throughout the semester. Wish I had taken another professor, he makes you read a number of extremely long articles that are outdated (2007-2010), and then the final exam questions you on about maybe 3-4 of them. Marketing has evolved since then, yet he hasn't updated his curriculum in years. Assigns complicated cases.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

If you hate talking in class, avoid him. Participation counts more than midterm. Long lectures. Too many readings per class.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Avoid! He makes the course way more difficult than it needs to be, explains the metrics in the most confusing way. The midterm was on 3 questions, 1 worth 60 pts which caused more than half the class to fail. Gives endless readings, boring cases/presentations, 4 assignments & participation is worth 15%! TOO MUCH WORK and not enough credit.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: B2BMRKT
• Grade Received: F
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Worst marketing professor at JMSB. Do yourself and your GPA a favour and skip this egotistical professor.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MRK301
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I took this course in a different university in montreal (in a better university than Concordia, i might add) took an A, i took this course with him he gave me a B-. He is just an old delusional professor with an attitude. No matter how hard you work it is always not enough for him, it is not worth wasting time with him.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: MARK
• Grade Received: C-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Awful just plain awful, skip this guy he knows nothing in marketing his head is still stuck in the 90's.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This a new compulsory course, the material is a little repetitive after Comm224(3) and that is the fault of this professor because and this is according to him that he has designed the whole course from the ground up. It is very boring and the prof is no good too at all, evade him if possible

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Old school teacher. Treats students like children. Does not teach much in class, you have to do all the work. He loves to make students present in class and take pleasure in asking impossibly difficult questions just to poke holes in the presentation. He takes pleasure in telling students how he created this difficult course. AVOID HIM AT ALL COST

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MARK301
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

what can i say, if you want a fair average treatment from a professor pass this guy. he is all talk and no action. very bad lecturer. his lecture has nothing to do with the course materials. spend most of his time talking about good marketing companies and how we student should aspire to work at those companies.