Reviews of professor Barry Toyama

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Barry loves the textbook. It is basically a self-teaching class where you are expected to read 250 pages on your own per exam and pass based solely on reading. majority of class failed the first exam as he did not teach the material well. He did not want to curve the exam or offer extra credit. Doesn't seem to care much about the students.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This was for KRS 489 during the summer so it was condensed to 6 weeks instead of 16. 2 discussion posts per week with two replies to classmates per posts, 4 two page papers, 2 exams, and a final project instead of a final exam. As long as you communicate with him, you'll do fine. He's very understanding and responds fairly quickly.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Toyama seems like the right person to be teaching this course, but it couldn't be further from the truth. His classes are extremely lecture-heavy, although "lecturing" might not be the right term. He sits down the whole class and reads from his notes, barely looking up at the class. His slides have little to no content. Buy the book.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Class is very unstructured. His PowerPoints dont have useful information and is very brief almost as if he made the PowerPoint before class. You will need the textbook to learn from the course because many topics are explained more in depth in book. You can tell he has experience in management but not so much in lecturing a class of students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
very confusing. syllabus does not include detailed explanation of grading system. slides have no material on them just topics. spends whole class doing pointless group lectures about material we have not yet covered. expectations for exam material is unclear

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Toyama is great. If you ever have a question on the material, he will respond to your email immediately and will be willing to help in any way. He is also very understanding and will accommodate if a student may need more time with certain assignments. If you keep a clear line of communication with him, you'll pass the class w/ no issues.