Debra Perosio - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Professor: Debra Perosio

Department: Business

College: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Super easy class. I didn't really learn much, but I guess I became more creative due to her in class exercises. Class had no exams, and was graded solely off two 2-page essays, online HWs, attendance and in-class exercises. Her lectures are somewhat engaging, but you can use them to do HWs for other classes if you need to. Would take again.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Super subjective grades, doesn't answer emails, horrible teacher with typos in all of her notes and grammatically incorrect sentences... How does she teach at this school

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• 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:

Very subjective grader and does not care about the students unless you are a male athlete. Accepts zero excuses for attendance and is not forgiving.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: AEM2420
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Debra Perosio is a terrible professor. I learned very basic concepts in her class and her grades are very disproportionately weighed. She also lacks sympathy - I missed class once and emailed her about it, never got a response, and got points deducted from my grade as a result. only take her class if you are forced to, as AEM majors are :)

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

I learned nothing and got an A+. Does that make sense? No. Am I happy? Yes.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

VERY EASY CLASS. But because her lectures are so disorganized and unnecessary, only a quarter of the class shows up by mid-semester. You don't really learn anything at all. This class is very common sense. If you need a GPA booster take this class, but it's unfortunate how much you don't learn from a class.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Easy A but a very frustrating professor. Not very responsive. Does not corporate well with students. Doesn't even reply my questions with proper answers. Feels like talking to a 3rd grade student. Only take the course if you want an easy A but it is painful.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Horrible. Never take any of her classes unless you absolutely have to. Her lectures are partial summaries of textbook chapters. Assignments are 5 years old and are full of typos that make it hard to understand what phrases mean. She doesn't accept any feedback whatsoever. She doesn't seem to care about teaching at all. Once again, AVOID her classes

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Very disorganized lectures and course content. Very bad sense of humor and does not communicate with students respectfully. However, this was genuinely the easiest class I have taken at Cornell.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

She has changed the layout of the course: papers and multiple quizzes. Perosio was wonderful to see 3 days a week and she genuinely cares about her students. Definitely would recommend this course. Easy to get an A. Quizzes based on textbook and lectures but taken on blackboard and can take with friends. The paper is 1 page. EASY AND FUN.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

This professor is the definition of a power trip. She does not care about any single student and will not accept anything late or have the compassion to help you if you have any personal problems. Take this course if you can turn things in on time and the credits but expect the most ambiguous quiz questions that will have no concrete answer.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

It's important to pay attention during lecture since all the things that she tests are from her lecture slides. Her tests are EXTREMELY easy; many students get A+. There is a group project. I got randomly assigned to a team and a TA. Luckily my teammates were very cooperative, and my TA was amazing! Prof P will help all of her students to get an A.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Here's how to be successful in this class. Skim the textbook chapter before lecture but don't waste actually reading it. Take notes during lecture!!! and write down examples. All the information in the course can boiled down to a bunch of lists and charts. These lists and charts will in form be on the prelims. Not a hard class but study.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: 2420
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Unfair grading policies: peer evaluations throughout the semester that do not benefit your grade, yet not turning them in on time means a three point deduction from your final grade in the course! Her tests are very difficult and require no insight, only rote memorization, and most guest speakers brought in did not supplement learning.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The class is very poorly organized. She doesn't post any notes and her online Friday's are a total waste of time. It's not an Ivy League level class. She doesn't really care about the class and the students.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: 2400
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

She's quite ignorant about her subject as can be seen at how awfully she answers questions. Every piece of material in this class is generic, common sense, or bs jargon. It's a shame that an ivy league's business school has such an ignorant marketing professor. She also made various factually incorrect statements about many international countries.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

This is a review for Prof. P, not for AEM 2400. She is an OK lecturer, but can be shrilly and unfocused at times. She is extremely unprofessional- frequently failing to respond to emails, constantly making typos in both her exams and in lecture, and runs the class in a disorganized manner. The TA's were super unhelpful, don't bother with office hrs

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: AEM2420
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

This was my first marketing experience and it really shocked me how easy it was. Professor P kept us on track and taught us how to be organized so overall it was an easy and rewarding experience if you paid attention and did your work.v

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: AEM241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Too much work for 2 credits even if it ends two weeks early and there's no final. Find a good group and its easy to get a good grade. You don't learn anything but it is good 'teamwork experience' to talk about for interviews.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: AEM2400
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Material is rather easy- if you go to lectures you will do reasonably well in the class. That being said, she was a very frustrating professor. Some slides and test questions bordered on being incomprehensible due to grammatical errors. She was very little help to me in office hours, and had to rely on her own powerpoint slides to answer questions