Reviews of professor Barbara Ariel Blair

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Unclear regarding expectations. Graded the final project the second before grades were due and when I reached out didn't provide an explanation as to the poor grade, took no responsibility, and said it was too late.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Blair seems like she cares, but she is not very good at teaching online. Her lecture videos and learning objectives were pretty vague and you were expected to learn the concepts solely through the readings. Her grading criteria was also unclear and assignment descriptions were very vague. Don't take her class if it is online.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Probably the worst professor I've had at Utah. She is inconsistent and unprepared. MGT4900 could be an amazing class, but it's delivered so poorly that it's painful. There are dozens of the same assignments that become monotonous and lose value. In a class based on culture, she has subjective opinions that we are then arbitrarily tested on.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Easy class overall, at least for the online session. It isn't hard at all to pass, but all of her instructions for assignments are incredibly vague, and she is not very helpful when you reach out to her for further questions. The class is super uninteresting, but I would try to take it online or with another professor if you need to take it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Just took our first exam, average was 65%. Every review below is spot on. Studied for 3 days straight, read, paid attention, but was destroyed on the exam by vague, open-ended questions that are very interpretive and arguably repetitive and ridiculously open-ended. I saw better averages in my Business Law class LOL! Sad this is a required class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Blair is an amazing teacher who really cares about her students. If you do not put work into her class you will have a hard time passing. If you show up and participate you will pass no problem. She wants to see her students succeed and become better people and students, she is a real gem!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I think the class could be really good, however, it doesn't get executed well. The group project is rough and didn't really correlate much with the course. I'd prefer a paper or something that allows us to learn and reflect on what we learned over the project. The textbook was really interesting though.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Looks like the U just hired anyone who's lived in diff countries to teach Intl Mgmt. Very unorganized. 2 textbooks with lots of reading used like a crutch instead of actually teaching. Learning to adapt to diff cultures is crucial, but the way this class was structured, was far from reaching that objective. Very disappointed.