Reviews of professor Beth Vallen

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good teacher. Tests on material given in powerpoint and makes expectations very clear.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Most engaging classes in all of SBI. Hard work is definitely required for this class but no penalization. She grades tough but definitely not impossibly tough. Very nice, caring, and keeps presentations relevant and engaging. Work is organized clearly, and I never felt like it was overwhelming.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
 She seems nice & has interesting lectures. I like that she has high expectations - it is so hard to please her because we have 12 days to learn an ENTIRE semester of material so ofc we will make mistakes. Be aware she gives only group grades (I got penalized for my teammates' crappy work for the very little they did). Tests every day were tricky.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Interactive lectures but dull material. Study the powerpoints and the tests are fine. MKT assignments were graded fairly and feedback was genuinely helpful. Ms. Vallen is not polite woman.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Vallen is a nice person and decent professor in the classroom. Her grading scale is absolutely awful and makes it near-impossible to get an A. Her quizzes are daily and hard, and she nitpicks group projects to an unnecessary degree. I would not recommend Professor Vallen unless you are a masochist.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her feedback is not very constructive. It is very condescending and makes you feel bad for doing something wrong rather than trying to help you. Quizzes in every class are also hard and the information is not given in any of the lectures or live sessions.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Would not recommend. Very ambiguous with grading and offers little to no guidance.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While already a tough class, Vallen makes it even harder by not showing up to her office hours when students schedule to meet with her and misgrading important assignments. Additionally, the boring lectures make CE the most stressful part of my life.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I highly suggest you take professor Vallen if you have zero interest in marketing but would love to be forced into knowing every last detail about the topic. If you enjoy a challenge and want to have sleepless nights, she is the one!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not take... You'll spend countless hours working on sometimes pointlessly long assignments that will be graded not based on the criteria but how much she likes your group. CE is already a hard and awful class and Beth Vallen makes it 10x worse than it needs to be.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Vallen is an insanely caring person, but this class is very work heavy. You take daily 10 question quizzes that seem to blindside you every time on top of many group projects that have a quick turnaround. She will only introduce the assignment less than a week before it is due, but they are group projects which requires additional planning.