Reviews of professor Bret Carpenter

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Bret is an amazing teacher who I took for BA 260 and BA101 which I got A's in. He is passionate in what he teaches and wants his students to succeed.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Easy class and Bret did a good job of organizing the material, but he can be sort of irritable and passive aggressive, which makes it hard to ask for help or clarification.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I just finished BA260. The class does require a lot of group work and collaboration. The majority of the work is done as a team. He does an amazing job of providing feedback and is a very fair grader. I cannot recommend him enough for BA260.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Nice guy, really good teacher!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
There are weekly quizzes online and the exams are online as well. Attendance is mandatory and is taken through Tophat. There is a major group project. Overall, he is a great professor!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Bret Carpenter loves to talk about the formal way to write an email, however never actually checks his own. I had a question about a grade and sent an email that was not responded to at all. Course itself lacked a reason to be taught, learned more from elementary school assemblies.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I wouldn't call him accessible, because I've had a hard time getting him to reply to emails, however, he genuinely cares about the students and does his best to make the materials applicable to real-world situations. I quite enjoyed his class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great professor. At first assignments can look overwhelming, but as you start working through them - everything is doable. Great detailed  and PROMPT feedback and grading. I took this class via Ecampus, but it felt like professor was present: recorded updates, recorded feedback, check ins, etc. Definitely recommend, not an easy-A class though.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Bret was great! I loved his integrated lectures (integrated within the textbook but not text heavy) and he used mixed mediums within the "textbook" portion. Very accessible and caring, knowledgable that students have other things going on in life and that we have differing experiences! He was very organized, the type of teacher you appreciate!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This was one of my more enjoyable classes as a business major. There is a semester long group that you get to choose from based on topics he has set up. It was easy and straight forward.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I am very interested in business, but Mr. Carpenter made me reluctant to attend class. Many of his remarks are quite passive-aggressive and lacked meaning. Mr. Carpenter also grades work extremely late so any feedback he gives for future assignments is useless.