Ramsey, Jere  

Jere's class is simply this, all of the material that is vaguely mentioned in the book. If you don't plan on reading, plan on riding the curve. This class is easy if you read and turn in a few participation forms. The tests aren't exactly cut and dry as there are a lot of case studies that you have to evaluate and each multiple choice option has a few correct answers. The final is optional and can only help you, so that is a plus. Basically, I was at the bottom of the class the entire quarter because I didn't read, for the last test I took the practice exam and the questions were straight from there. I am not one who usually does not read but I had a heavy quarter and thankfully she curves the heck out of the grades.

I really liked Jere. Her tests are tough, but it is really nice that she allows a certain amount of notes. She is always well prepared for lecture and has notes for you to print out. The group project that lasts the whole quarter is fun and interesting. I would definitely recommend her for 301!!

I really don't understand all the terrible poly ratings on Jere. She really isn't that bad. Her notes are all on a powerpoint which pretty much comes straight from the book, how much clearer do you need it?? She gives pop quizzes so do the reading. Her class is one big group project that is actually quite fun. There isn't much homework outside of reading and group work. You'll live. I had this class at 7 am and managed to make it to class every single time. Jere is really pretty cool despite what a lot of the business students say.

Interesting class. Definitely buy the book and read, read, read. Everything is centered on the book! The group project is a lot of work but if you have a good group and are willing to work hard; it can be rewarding. Some of her lectures were boring but overall good fair teacher. I would take her again simply for her knowledge and fairness.

A good lecturer, yes. A good teacher, no. Jere seems to have missed the meeting where you have to actually convey what you are learning to promote comprehension of the subject. Not just reading straight from the book and making a powerpoint off that. I could have easily read the book and learned the material. Tests are rather hard. She doesn\'t tell you what to study from the text which makes them harder since there is so much info. Then she makes a test straight from the sample exams and changes the answers to make multiple questions. Overall, avoid if you can.

Ramsey is very well educated on this subject and has lots of first hand international experience that makes her lectures interesting. Class is mostly groupwork. Workload is huge, but interesting and relatively easy (just time consuming). She is very intested in students' inputs. Class discussion is a big part of the class. No midterms or quizzes and the final is optional.

Jere is awesome, you will learn tons from her if you take this class. She is interested in student input and a 15 minute class discussion can turn into a two hour class discussion. This course is packed with group work, readings, and cases so be prepared to do tons of reading and take your case studies and cross cultural assignment seriously. Jere demands attention to detail but at the same time she is very flexible. There are no midterms and the final is optional.

Jere is very knowledgeable and knows what she is talking about; HOWEVER, her grading system is somewhat messed up. A 2-page paper is worth the same as 10-page papers. Also, she grades you on in-class participation and you have to turn in a sheet when you participate. Okay, grading on participation is fine, but when it causes people to randomly go off on whatever just to fulfill the requirement, it defeats the purpose. Half the time we didn't stay on schedule because of mindless rambling. Don't get me wrong, the class was interesting- it just needs a different structure.

Although I recieved a decent grade in Jere's class, DO NOT TAKE HER!! The workload she puts on you is completly insane. The lectures are boring, and sometimes I think are borderline racist. She talks as though she knows everything about every other culture. I concede that she does have a lot of experience living overseas, but it was on a military base, which is not exactly "cultural". Its obvious how much she dislikes certain things about other cultures, but always seems to "prop up" certain others. Her "executive summarys" are complete bulls**t. They are nothing more than a way for her to tell you that she thinks you're an idiot. Why the administration would put her into the only section of this class is crazy. She doesnt even like teaching here to begin with! DON'T TAKE HER!!!

She is a great teacher with a lot of experience. She knows her stuff. She has a great personality. She is, however very particular with what she expects of you. The workload is pretty tough.

The way this class was taught makes me wonder how I didn't fall asleep. Day after day after day of powerpoint. The grades are split equalling into 4 parts; 1 group project, 2 midterms, attendance and participation. The guest speakers bring some spark to the class, but overall it's pretty dry. There's no homework, but if you want to do well on the tests you have to at least skim the book and read the chapter summaries. Hard to get an A, but also hard to get a D and it fills the Internation requirement for business majors.

Yes, the class has a lot of work involved and yes you have to participate and show up if you want a good grade, but this course was by far the most fulfilling class I've ever taken. She has the ability to see right through bullshit, so don't think that you can get a good grade on the executive reports by just filling space. Follow the directions to the letter! Check off ALL of the concepts that she lists for guidelines, because she checks them off when she's grading. Other than that, just make sure you go to every class. Hardest most time consuming class for business majors. You WILL learn more than in any other class. Best teacher at Cal Poly.

Jere is one of the best professors in the COB. I would recommend her. You will have to read the book to do well on the tests because some of the test questions are specific to what was in the book, and previous knowledge or intelligence wont help. Tests are curved if needed, and group papers are graded fairly. Make sure to get a good group though, thats imperative. Tough to get an A, but really hard to fail though. Easy B though.

Awful. Lectures are useless. Tests are based on one of the worst books ever written. I swear this woman has a mental disorder. Questions for test are ridiculously detailed. The only saving grace is the page of notes allowed. Save yourself from wanting to jab a butterknife in your eye, avoid this professor.

Let me put it this way...I don't know how she got the "outstanding faculty" award like every year. Personally, she is a horrible lecturer and I am sick of how she talks about how she has "been everywhere in the world." I dont know how a professor with an English background is qualified to teach an Int'l Bus class...I was looking forward to learning something in this class, but instead it is a bunch of busy work. I would not recommend taking this class with this professor. Let me make it blunt... she is a bitch...and if you take this class, you'll know exactly what I am taking about. She'll mark you down on papers for the dumbest thing. She goes through this huge power trip and acts like she knows what she is talking about. And no I didn't fail this class, and as a matter a fact I am doing really well...I just hate this professor teaching this class.

This class pretty much sucks from the second you get into it. She makes you buy this $10 booklet that she prints herself which is not even her notes it's like a syllabus; basically 20 copied pages black and white. RIPOFF. She makes you write down everything you say in class to calculate your participation. LAZY. I agree with the other eval. that she really doesn't care about lecturing, what she does like talking about are her family vacations. The tests are extremely hard and they are on seriously one sentence statistics that are useless information out of 200 large pages of reading per test in a dense textbook. Good luck.

Bummer. I was really excited about learning something about international business and have been fascinated by the subject for some time. Indeed I was considering declaring IB as my concentration. Until meeting Jere Ramsey that is. This teacher is horrible. Totally ruined any interest that I had in the subject. How can you take something so interesting and make it so utterly hollow and boring. Lectures were dull and added absolutely no value to a statistic-laden, equally-boring text. Test are ridiculous with exact details pulled from the sleeper text followed by questions like "a,b,& c; b&c but not a, all of the above, etc." Honestly, the tests were designed to trick, not evaluate true understanding. And the group project...was a lengthy waste of time. Find out for yourself, but I would recommend to avoid at all costs.

not really wiling to help you out....kinda a bitch

Jere Ramsey is by far the worst teacher I have ever had. She spends half the class rambling about her trips around the world and the 20 languages she supposedly speaks. The other half is spent reading the outlines she copied from the book rather than the actual information. She focuses on the most minuscule details in the book for the tests. She never answers her e-mails. She never posts any test information until a few days before, leaving you hardly any time to study. I could go on and on about how much I hate her and her teaching. bottom line, DO NOT TAKE ANY CLASS WITH HER.

If you are taking 3 other hard classes, I wouldn't recommend taking this one. Jere is very knowledgeable about the subject, but i found myself wondering if she knew that I had three other classes to worry about besides just hers. There is a lot of busy work/reading and if you get a bad group you are pretty much screwed because you do group work the whole quarter. Group pop quizzes are given almost every week which are usually detailed questions rather than basic common sense questions. After the first 2 to 3 weeks you will (most-likely) be pretty stressed out. That being said, if you really study for the tests (READ the chapters thoroughly & KNOW the practice tests) and do well on the group papers, it is very possible to get a good grade in this class. She grades the papers pretty easy and the final is optional and weighted very high so you really have a good opportunity to boost your grade. GOOD LUCK!

I really thought this class was going to be interesting.... So disappointing..... Why take an interesting subject, and bludgeon your students with mostly meaningless numbers, and make them know 500 statistics for 4 different countries.... DISCUSS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS!!! TEACH!!! Climb out of your secret feminist underground lair and share something genuine....I don't care about the current state of your family discussions... i'm sorry you had a rough morning.... but thank you for making me memorize the CIA World Factbook... I REALLY got a lot out of that.... About as much as River Phoenix got from heroin, and Neil Patrick Harris gets from a naked broad.... And the tests..... no joke, EVERY question.... is the answer, A,B,A&B,C,A&C, or none of the above..... awesome..... really enjoyed that.... stab me in the face with soldering iron.... you are psycho-semantic blockage....

Prof Ramsey is clear and precise. I had no problems with this class as did those who filed negative reports because they had ADD or ADHD. Or they were too hung over from chugging beer puffing pot or cutting out lines. My perspective is different because I have had real world business experience. I know who Andy Grove is (INTEL) for you idiots who whine about knowing statistics of foreign countries. You can bet that Larry Ellison of Oracle know inter-continental statistics. Do you think that Ace Greenburg (Legendary Stock Trader on Wall Street) did not know international exchange rates. Go sit in the Sloane School of management at MIT if you think that this and other classes that Ramsey teaches are hard. My God you people whine like there is no 2 morrow. This and other Classes that Ramsey Teaches are microcosmotically relational to the real world of business. Quit your whining. You got a bad grade because you did not put in the effort. If you want to go to work for Sun Microsystems, CISCO, Oracle, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chase, Toyota, Honda, etc. you should know this. They will not put up with your whining. They will FIRE you in a heartbeat if you do not Produce.

Overall, a feminist and terrible teacher who thinks she knows everything about anything but really doesnt. Terrible class, ask anyone who has taken w/ her. I would not recommend her at all

She is one of the worst teachers I've ever had. I wouldn't mind putting in hard work if i was actually learning... BUT SHE DOESNT EVEN KNOW WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT. The work is ridiculous- we had a quarter long group project. (Which was basically read every chapter in the text book and summarize the book and apply it to your product. By the end of the quarter I had written a novel-- no joke. )We had pop quizzes everyday that were so detailed, you had to read every little thing on the page of the book, some were from captions on pictures. (Her tests are like that too.) Her grading policy was dumb, I would look at the printed grade sheet and it didn't move most of the quarter even with all the assignments I was turning in, and when I questioned her, she had a hard time explaining it. She is very unhelpful when you have a question- she would just confuse everyone more or just piss people off. Her lectures just consisted of the title of each section and her telling stories about herself. They hired her last minute for this class, and you could definitely tell. I would avoid her at all costs.

She is delusional. Awful teacher. Know-it-all. More focused on tiny piece that don't matter, rather than the concept. She shouldn't teach. And she shouldn't spend the entire class period going around in circles about politics when she's supposed to be teaching us marketing.

There honestly is not one good thing I can think of to say about Jere Ramsey. I dreaded going to that class everyday. I can easily say it was the worst class I have taken here with the worst teacher there is. I was excited to learn about International and World Marketing but felt like I learned nothing. The work load for that class was RIDICULOUS!!! It was equivalent to the work load of 3 major classes. Quizzes on the readings practically everyday, working on a quarter long group project that took hours everyday to do, the exams had questions about the most irrelevant things and minute details. Awful. She wasn't a pleasant individual to talk to either. She came off as arrogant, too cool for school, and a know-it-all who doesn't even like her job. I wish I could have taken this class with another professor...I would have actually learned something. I write this in sincerity, trying to save some people from taking her awful class...whoever is reading this you have been warned...

Reguardless of what I heard about Jere, she was a good teacher. Hard? Yes, but worth it. I actually learned in this class. All you have to is go to class (she has pop quizes at random), do your work (easy becuase you don't want to let your group down), and make a study sheet for the tests.

This class is very hard. There are pop quizes for every chapter, but they are more like final exams. You can have a full sheet of paper for quizes and midterms but it wont help you at all, unless your psychic and know what she is going to ask. Out of a whole chapter she will ask you random questions about one specific percent in one paragraph on the second page of a fifty page chapter. She also just talkes about her personal experiences in industry that don't match up or help you for the exams. If you want to do well only take this class during the quarter and nothing else, that will give you time to memorize the book. If you do this you should get a B.

There was a lot of reading for this class. We had two 2 hour classes per week and had to read a chapter for each class. She said we would have pop quizzes but most of em came after the first midterm. Unfortunately, reading the chapter doesn't necessarily mean you'll get all the questions right on the quizzes. The midterms were tricky sometimes but doable. There were lots of cases in the midterms. I think she gets her quiz and midterm questions from a test bank so they aren't necessarily straight forward questions. She threw a few out when she graded because she didn't think the answers were different enough. Don't wait til right before the midterm to read. In class, she talked a lot about her experiences and how it has to do with the chapter. She also wants the class to participate in the discussion. Unfortunately, the class discussions get off track sometimes. It gives you good information to know in life but sometimes not something that has to do with the chapter. Overall, a good teacher, but lots of work.

Jere is a great teacher. She is always readily available and very willing to help. Her grading is very fair...just remember to do everything she has listed for project criteria. Assignments are not difficult, but are very time consuming. The workload is considerably larger than most other COB clases, but I feel it is appropriate. I plan to take her for other required classes, when possible. Highly recommended.

This course in general is not fun so it really doesn't matter who you take. If you get Ramsey don't panic she is a good person as well as a good teacher. She knows what she is talking about and much more. You can talk to her on any topic you can think of. Her quizes( there are 2) are actually tests, so really study, I got a B+ instead of an A in the class becasue I didn't do well on one quiz. Each is 10% of your grade so STUDY!Also, be aware of the paper you have to write. It will run you about 20 pages SINGLE SPACED! But, breath... it actually isn't that bad. If you start early(like she recommends) it is cake!

This is one of those pointless classes that you think you are going to get to breeze through without putting in a lot of time. Ramsey grades like a hard ass, so be careful and look at the syllabus to see what everything is worth, turns out each quiz is 10% of your grade. 2 quizzes, 1 midterm or paper, 1 short paper and 2 group papers, the final is optional. She is a cool teacher though but she isn't going to let you breeze through.

Experience and knowledgeable in business and probably a decent professor but Bus387 brings out the worst in everyone. In particular the text was horrible, very convaluted and basically worthless. You can take 387 with Ramsey just make sure you prepare for the quizes. A lot of writing that amounts to zero learning but I don't think that is Ramsey's fault, no way around this class for you business folk.

.... DO NOT TAKE HER!!!!!!!!!!!.... if you take her your life is over because she gives you enough work equivalent to 3 other major courses combined.....

This is one crazy bitch. She left the workforce to take care of her kids and now has a problem feeling important so she now puts college students through her,

My grade in this class wasn't that bad (B-) but for how much work it took i seriously should have gotten an A. This class is awful! It's like 3x the workload of any other class & you do seriously stupid, pointless assignments, quizzes (which, by the way, if you fail one - because i forgot about it, but get A's & B's on everything else throughout the class you can't get higher than a B- in the class), and a 20 page individual, single-spaced paper. You MUST participate and fill out these STUPID participation sheets. The class was just lame and I seriously dreaded it every time i had to go. You don't learn anything that will every be useful in your life - seriously, AVOID JERE AT ANY COST.

If you want to enter absolute hell for ten weeks then be my guest and take this class. You will come to class each day and be treated like an absolute ten year old with those piece of crap partipation sheets; that you have to fill out or recieve negative 'participation' points. If you like being treated like a grammmer school student then take 387 with my favorate teacher Jere Ramsey.

Jere Ramsey was an excellent professor who basically spelled out during the first lecture exactly how to get an A in her class. The quizzes and midterm are a joke because she gives you practice exams which are usually verbatim what she will give you. There is an optional final which can only help you. Yes, the participation sheets were pointless but if your group works well together and you do all the work then there is no reason why you can't get an A or a B. Take Ramsey, she is really not bad and she brings a lot of great experience and helpful knowledge to the class.

Jere comes off as a very intimdating lady. The only thing i truly HATED about her class is her grading. You grade is based on either 80 points or 100 points (with an optional final). There are 3 quizzes, 1 midterm, 2 group projects, and 10 points for participation. She claims that the quizzes are "astonishingly similar" to her sample quizzes in her packet, but she lied for the first quiz. Do not trust her when she tells you her quizzes are the same as her sample quizzes, just study and you will do fine. If you screw up on 1 quiz it will SCREW up your whole grade even if you maintain an A on everything else. She weighs everything the same and DOES NOT CURVE FOR THE LIFE OF HER. The group projects are very difficult so i suggest looking at her sample projects very carefully. The class is not hard, the material is easy to learn, but i just hated her grading. Don't fail anything and you will do fine.

Jere is a very cool Lady... She wants you to feel like you are in the business world so she wants to be call by her first name. The Class is really easy I put about 5 min into studing for the quizes there are 5 and they are the majority of your grade. Oh and she gives you a question bank that she takes 75% of the questions from. You don't need to take the final cause it is optional.... the only bad news is that she has two group papers done on Cases you read in class they take a lot of work but are not worth much, IF you make sure that the papers are logical and are well written than you should get A's on them... TAKE JERE if you want an easy B an A is hard to come by in her class.

Fricken tough class. She does give you most the problems that will be on the quizes but still can be easy to screw them up and miss out on the A. I got a B and I am glad to be done with this class. If you have a crappy group, even one where everyone helps on the project but the people just bag on the class the whole time, then you'll probably grow to hate this class. I was just glad to get a B and not need to take the final. Despite how stupid this class can be Jere is a good teacher for it.

The sheer magnitude of anger I hold inside of me toward Jere Ramsey is phenomenally indescribable. Although I earned an A, I spent 25+ hours a week just on her class alone, on top of my other 12 units. I am not joking when I say this class should be worth at least 8 units. Be prepared for 1 or 2 papers due every class period, even when there is a midterm - of which there are 5 total. A 30 page paper is due halfway through the quarter, and at the end, there is a 50-70 page paper due as well (longer since you have to redo all of the the previous paper with regard to the new topic); please keep in mind that these papers are single spaced. Groups are assigned, and if you get stuck in a bad group (like I did), be prepared for the extinction of your social life. Jere, may the wrath of karma reign down upon you when your son is my age!

Ramsey is the toughest Org Behavior teacher!!!!! I had friends that took different teachers and they didn't do anything all year and they got an A. I worked hard and got a B!!! You have 5 quizzez, 2 single spaced group papers one 20 pages and the other 30, but they are really like 50 pages if you want a good grade. Jere talks all day....she loves the sound of her voice. Don't take Jere unless you like to do more work than others. Run...run fast

Jere jeer, what can we say about jere. The thing about jere is that she is mad at the world because she wants to be a big corporate executive however she lives in san luis and takes her kids to soccer practice in her mini van and she cant believe it is her life. Jere deals with this buy taking a fairly simple fun subject and becoming a nazi. She is very sexist and the only chance you have to do well in her class is if you are a kiss ass they do well in her course so all your suck ups snag her on power and pucker up. For the rest of us she has quizzes and group papers then she gives you an option either you can analyze your group and write a 20 page single spaced paper or you can take a test where the last mean average is 55 and there is no curve so pick your poison. Bottom line is she is crazy and completely ruins a fun course, what a shame.

Jere is extrememly critical and the hardest OB teacher there is at Poly. Her tests are difficult because she goes into alot of detail with the questions. The tests would be extremely easy if they were open book, but since they aren't you must study every minute detail in the book. You don't get much out of going to lecture, but she makes you aske questions and submit a daily list of the questions you asked, which causes everyone to ask dumbass questions to meet the requirement. The group papers are a bitch, our groups first one was 27 pages single spaced and the second finished off at about 73 pages, 50 of it single spaced text. If you do take Jere take a light load to go with her class.

So people are right and wrong. YES the course is a lot of work. No, Jere is not ahorrible teacher because of this. She knows her stuff and she emphasizes the most important information. If you do not understand the material, she is more than willing to help you. Our papers were 35 pages and 55 pages, which sounds like a lot, but if you work on it as the quarter progresses, you'll be ok! Save the papers until the last munute and you will hate your it. Jere basically tells you what to write for the paper and walks you through the steps. It's not as hard as if someone handed you random topic and said "I want a 55 page paper at the end of the quarter." Overall, I think Jere was one of the best teachers I've had so far. It may have been a lot of work, but in the work force, their not going to tolerate anything less.

This woman belongs in a mental institution. This was the worst quarter of my life because of jere. There is so much work, work that I wouldn't even do if I was paid major bucks in salary or given the fontain of youth. Jere can easily be a synonym for The entire Gestopo clan. She will make you hate your life and want to drop out of school, save yourself!

Class is a joke, it is the easiest subject ever but she figures out a way to make it way harder than it really is. The only reason why I went class was for participation points that actually count towards your grade. It was my worst class I have ever taken at Poly. There are 5 exams and 3-5 quizes, and if you do poorly on the quizes it hurst your grade dramatically. This class is a waste of time and can be learned in one day living. The subject is stuff we deal with everyday, but she gives exams that are way harder than they should be. I am not a fan of Ramsey although she knows what she talking about...she loves to hear herself talk and will put you to sleep everyday. She has some hatred towards life and is not afraid to express that through her workload and stupid comments. Worst class I and professor I have ever taken. Same stuff everyday, same order, very boring, and way too much work for the ease of the subject matter

Organizational behavior is a very, very boring subject that is broken down into unneccessary detailed models and descriptions. Jere makes the students memorize much more information than is necessary, and it is enough to bore you to tears and yet keep you busy all the time. Throughout the quarter, we had 5 tests, a few quizzes, covered 15 chapters, and wrote two group papers (one of which was 30 pages and the other 50 pages long, single spaced). This class was very time consuming and I do not feel like my 10 weeks were well spent. Sadly, this class is required for business students. If you are smarter than I was and actually pay attention to these ratings, do not take Jere! Your quarter will be much easier.

I think she tried to change her teaching style for my class because it wasn't anything like what the reviews below say. For my class we had tests and pop quizzes only. I didn't have to write a single paper. Compared to the other classes I was taking at the time, the workload was actually light. For the most part it was lots of reading. A lot of her quiz questions were difficult and a lot of the students, including myself didn't do too well on those (i think the class average was like a 50%?), but her tests easily boosted our grades. Much of the tests were straight from her OB book which you download so it's easy to memorize 1/2 - 3/4 of the entire test. Also we did group tests, and those are consistently higher which helps your grade again (unless your group sucks). Overall, I didn't mind her. She talks a lot which makes it hard to get "participation" pts but whatever. I wouldn't mind taking her again, simply because I didn't think the class was that hard or time-consuming. But again, I think she changed her teaching style for my class. If she reverts back to her old self described below...well...sucks for you.

This class was average. She wasn't an exceptional professor. She doesn't review important points from the book, instead has you print out her notes and expects you to determine the important points. She will read her outline or slides, but doesn't supplement it with the knowledge you will need for her tests. It feels like you have a test every other week which is very time consuming. In addition to tests, you have a quiz on the days that dont have tests. You don't have group work outside of class.

She is a really nice lady, she's super opinionated but it's a good thing. She is definitely one of the better teachers i've had but it was ALOT of work for a C+. You HAVE to attend class and do well on the quizzes that's where I slacked. She has like 5 tests and they're pretty easy as long as you look at the practice questions in "Jere's OB Book" (you'll find out what that is when you take the class) it's pretty much the bible. After all is said and done, I'd take her again, she's a really chill teacher.

God, what can I say about Jere? I didn't like her teaching style one bit. She's always talking about her "real world" experience, which is actually quite minimal, from what I understand. She is very opinionated and integrates those views into her lectures. She would occasionally argue with students, and rant on about how woman are treated unfairly in the business environment. I remember one lecture in which she was "teaching" how disgusting and unethical it was for the US to take land from Mexico. Maybe it was a personality clash, but I honestly learned NOTHING. There are far better teachers for this class.

Wow, what horrible class...Instead of teaching the material, Jere will spend the whole quarter complaining about the teaching staff and politics of the Cal Poly system.Get a different job if you hate it so much! The material is extremely long and detailed, it would help if she actually taught it to us. She will actually ask you specific numbers from one of the twenty statistics in the chapter.....What the #$%!@#!, She justifies her hard test by saying that she took the test and passed....Well no crap, you have a masters, this is our first human resource course....COme on!

She says 80% chance quiz...except you will almost always have one! There will only be 5-10 questions, and if she assigned additional notes or reading pages, you can assume there are going to be questions about it. The quizzes are easy though, you either read or you didn't. Don't lose stupid points on this! She doesn't waste your time, and you will often get out early. Participate, you'll be glad you did later- the tests can have some tricky questions, and it's nice to have some cushion points.

This is by far the worst professor I have had. There is no point of going to her lectures except it is required for quizzes and attendance held daily. She rambles on about fellow instructors and politics. Her exams a are A-E with questions that are D)two of the above or E)none of the above which makes the exams difficult. The exams are specific wording and definitions taken from the book which requires you to memorize the book. Good if you learn by reading but this teacher will teach you nothing. Groups are completely worthless in this class you simply retake the individual exams over in a group.

So I am trying this think where I am not very judgmental. Jere Ramsey I suppose would pass as a mediocre teacher though. This class is way too much work for a 4 unit class. That wouldn't be so bad if she actually taught but unfortunately this does not happen. So without rambling incoherently like so many people on Poly Ratings I will just break down what you need to know if you choose to enroll in the class. Do well on the weekly quizzes, read and UNDERSTAND how to apply the cases, PARTICIPATE in class EVERY DAY (even if its something small and insignificant just so you don't miss out on those points) and lastly study for the 5 exams throughout the quarter by going through her outline and making a good flashcard as well as running through the sample midterm at least once (lots of questions show up on the real tests). The last piece of advice is simply to be on your toes from day one, that is the only way to get an A in the class. I did bad on the first test we had since I didn't really know how to prepare for this class and it cost me the A-. The pros of this class (and there are few) is that you get out early every day and no outside group work like the other ORG Behavior teachers. Although I wouldn't recommend this teacher I heard all the teachers for this subject are bad so whatever your poison choose wisely.

AVOID THIS TEACHER AT ALL COSTS! If you take this class expect: 5 midterms, 5 group tests, 5 graded group essays, studying off of 5 practice tests over 100 questions long, and over 20 hours of studying per week just to pass. No exaggeration (everyone in the class thinks just the same way I do). The course work is unfair and irrational.

Everyone who says Jere is a bad teacher just simply wasn\'t willing to put in the work. This class does require a lot of work, but it is straight-forward if you are willing to learn. This class has 5 tests which are based off of the study guides and information from the books. There is also an optional final. Make sure you study the study guides and the teacher\'s outlines and notes and you will get an A or a B in the class.

, First off let me say that there is an extremely large amount of work that you have to do for this course, but the bottom line is that IT IS WORTH IT. Jere is an extremely experienced instructor and professional. Yes, she does expect allot from the students but by this point if you can't keep up then what have you been doing for the past couple of years. You definitely can't freeload this class. There is a group project that is a major part of the grade. The best thing I can recommend is to keep track of all the group members and to have good communication or else you won't survive and will drive each other crazy. Her lectures are packed with information, but are very useful and her input on case studies is that of professional in the industry and is very helpful. There are two exams and the final exam is optional based on your performance in the class so far. That is one of the best things about Jere's classes. Besides who likes to take finals? Her tests are almost verbatim to the book so it does help if you read the chapters. She does give random pop quizzes on the material in the book and the cases that were covered. One of the unorthodox things that she does is that she makes you keep track of your participation, yes, it does seem lazy but this is a very involved class. How can one student expect her to remember everything every student says (no way)? So keeping track of your participation is helpful in the final grade she does take participation seriously it might be a difference between a C and B-. Her kind of teaching, lectures, and presentation work for my learning style. She has a way of forcing you to pay attention to the details but also requires you to look at the big picture. She doesn't present useless facts and information to fill up time and doesn't ramble off on tangents either. She has a very precise grading system, and continuously lets you know how you are doing in the class through a grade spreadsheet and tells what you need to do to get the grade that you are aiming for in the class. She is demanding but just, and the information that you learn in the class is going to be very valuable and essential for you. I DO RECOMEND this instructor. Don't fall behind and do the work and you will have no problem getting through the class. This has been one of the best classes that I have taken; I enjoyed it very much and was never bored. Please give Jere a chance.

Jere is a really great teacher. Everyone complains about the workload but its honestly not that bad. This was the second class I've taken with her and this was a bit easier than 402. The class consists of a simulation (mikes bikes) where you essentially run your own bike company, pop quizzes in class, midterms (pretty difficult), class participation (worth A LOT) and an OPTIONAL final. This class is a lot of work but its not pointless work. You do actually learn something. Jere is very easy-going anf a VERY smart lady. I recommend her for any class. TIP: study her previous exams and photocopy her chapter notes for your exam cheat sheets!

Jere is a very smart woman and a good teacher. My favorite part of the class was the fact that she works to integrate skills from prereqs (and refreshes them since you forget) and applies them to practical uses. You look at companies, learn how to run their numbers and analyze them quickly. It makes it much more interesting than reading from a book the whole time. Some little tips will make life easier though. She lets you have a sheet of notes so use it. quizzes are primarily on the case studies at the end of each chapter so read those few pages and run the financials and just print out your numbers for the quiz. (just put extra notes on that sheet and you will do heeps better.) Mikes bikes seems like alot but if you split up the memos between group members (one person always does value chain) it makes it fast and easy. For the exams just type up the little charts cuz there are lots of ?'s from them and do the practice exams, they help alot. You will learn alot and its a reasonable work load. overall i enjoyed it.

This class was not as hard as people make it out to be. Lectures are extremely boring and she basically talks to herself the entire time, imposing her opinions on cases as facts. Read the book as quizzes are given almost weekly and often unannounced. The simulation is alright, not too much learning there. However, your grade depends on how you analyze your company in the simulation so performance in the decisions is not critical. Overall, the key to success will be to continually read the text, make a GREAT cheat sheet for the tests and you will be fine.

Do you have to be a visionary to be a success? These are the fascinating questions wide eyed students will ask Ramsey, and then they wait to be subsequently soaked in the rich response based in concrete real world experience, tempered only with the subliminal subjective spew that spills from her mouth. If you found yourself

This is not going to be an easy course. I would definitly say that i learned more Jere's class than any other I have taken. The work load in this class is very large but Jere is good about giving class time to complete work. Jere is definitly one the best instructors on this campus so i would recommend this class to all bus majors looking for a challenge

I thought that I liked Jere at the beginning of the quarter, but my thoughts towards her changed as the quarter went on. This class was boring and she thinks that this must be the only class you are taking for the quarter. The workload is unecessary, but it does help you for the papers that are due with your group. She leaves you no room to use your imagination on anything because she is too structured in her grading and expectations. If you have to miss a class or any part of it, be prepared to have your grade lowered. Also, be prepared to say something everyday in class-whether it is about the weather or the bottom of your shoe. Otherwise, you will not get your points for the day. She says that she doesn't lecture, but class time is taken up by talking and then there is no time to get any of the enormous amounts of work done that she assigns, so you have to do it outside of class. She also teaches like she assumes you know everything about the phone simulation you do all quarter and by the time you are getting the hang of what the heck we are doing, we are already on to something else and you are totally behind. I have heard she is better than the other teacher and that really scares me!

This is a class that is full of busy work. Most of the work seems pointless and mundane; however, the work does make the final papers easier to do. Make sure that you write something for every topic on your article papers. Each topic is not worth much, but those points add up in the end. Also make sure that you get a good group, and that you negotiate with a group that you like, or negotiations might get stressful. I see this as a class that fulfills a requirement; however, I never really enjoyed it. Hopefully you will.

Jere Ramsey is a great teacher. She teaches you important things you need in the business world and in life. At times there is a lot of work, but you will be greatful at the end of the quarter. Beware though, she is very structured with assignments. Follow directions.

I liked the class even though it consisted of a lot of work. The only thing that i could recommend is getting a good group. My group was not the greatest and although they did not hurt my grade to much. I constantly felt that i had to but in more work then the other members and they would still want an equal split of the grade. Although her teaching style is overwhelming, i would say that she is a good teacher to learn from. When she makes you do things on excel you will think wow, neat. I enjoyed learning the financial things that she had to offer. Oh and the simulation really is time consuming, take a light load when attepmting this class

Well this class was probably one of the more useful classes I have taken as far as business classes are concerned. However, there is SOOO MUCH WORK!! I mean endless amounts of work.. Participate in class.. if you don't it will really hurt your grade Only read the summaries at the end of each chapter.. you don't need to buy the book if you just borrow and photocopy someone's Don't study too hard for the tests.. I got high B's and I put probably a hour and a half total in preparation... Good luck, and I hope you get a good group..

Jere Ramsey required a ton of work, but I learned a lot from it. She is very intellegent and understanding and interesting. I was never bored in her class. She is very up-to-date in current events and shares daily in class. Take her if you can!

Doesn't seem like she cares much about teaching. She talks about her international experience but going overseas for a vaction isn't international experience. Her test and quizes are full of lame rote memory type questions about useless shit. Her book is full of errors because it was written by students a dozen years ago and she is to lazy to update it. I thought the workload was about average, but most people in my class thought it was excessive. There are some interesting things in the class but they are few and far between.

Jere is a really easy person to talk to. Everyone who wrote crappy things about her was probably just too lazy to do the class work. Granted, it is A LOT of work. But I definitely learned a lot too. She is more than qualified to teach an international course because she has traveled, lived, and worked around the world and she still does. If you want to actually learn something at Cal Poly, take Jere. If you want an easy class that you get nothing out of, look elsewhere.

Jere comes off like a very nice instructor on the first day. What you get fooled into is how much work the class is, and how unclear she presents the material. Most often she doesn't go over material at all, just assigns the chapters to be read. Do not take this class if you have 3 other hard classes you are taking at the same time. This class involves 2 midterms, and an optional final. However, you participate in an International simulation, in which you have group handouts due EVERY CLASS. These are a pain and take a lot of time. To get a good grade, focus on her FREQUENT reading quizzes and doing well on the midterms. Also, she makes you hand in participation sheets every single time you participate in a class discussion. All in all, an interesting class and you will learn a lot--but also do a lot of homework and studying in the meantime.

To all you Business students who never have anything good to say welcome to this P.O.S web site devoted to individuals such as yourself desiring a place to bitch about how hard your education is. Why the f..... did you come here in the first place, expecting to bone a bunch of hot chicks, party, drink tons of beer and smoke a few joints before class? Some advice to you, quit copying the solution manuals and turning it in as homework that you should have done on your own. Try to actually LEARN the material since that is what COLLEGE is supposed to be right? Or is it drunken stupors partying downtown in this faggot ass conservative hypocrisy so called upscale American town? Run by three jack ass never graduated from college idiots riding the real-estate boom and convincing everyone not to vote for the market place to secure his own interests. Anyway point being, you're obviously a bunch of spoiled self-centered mama's boys who still need to have mommy come over and change your dippers and tell you to do your homework, wash behind your ears, and grow the f.... up!!!! But since mommy and daddy have nothing but trouble of their own they send your ass off to college, pay the f...ing bills for you, and hope to god you graduate so you will quit sucking every last dime from their bank account. But hey you're going to be a big Know it all businessmen soon right? You'll be so damn cocky having a degree from CalPoly that you don't deserve since all you did was bitch about how hard your classes were. That won't matter then cause by then you'll be telling everyone how smart you were in school and claiming that every class was easy, mean while your company is being sued because guess what....yep you f.....ed up my friend. You forgot to check that deal and well the f...ing thing just collapsed. Opps must have been your subordinates fault....those f....ing idiots never get it right. Good luck people quit complaining that the teachers are making it too hard, and do your own damn homework for a change!

Jere is far from a great teacher. she assigns projects that she doesn’t really know anything about. she constantly uses class time to tell life stories about how important she is instead of sticking to topics applicable to the subjects to be learned. he tests are all ridiculously hard cause she will lead you to thing you should study one thing and ask questions on her tests that were never mentioned in class. I don’t believe she is very educated, she seems to be having some one else create all her work. when I asked her questions she gave me the wrong answers and then had different answers on her tests. the whole class was one confusing horrible mess. the worse part she has been with cal poly too long for any one to try to remove her from her thrown. good luck with this teacher, you'll need it.

Do the professors not ever go on this website and read these ratings?! How could they not want to improve their teaching style?? Well, she does not have her Ph.D. so that says a lot about her. You can't possibly try to teach with only a Masters and that's something that shows with this TEACHER.

Unfortunately, Jere has lost that loving feeling. I would rate her as clincally manic depressive...She's lazy. Super lazy. A REAL DEBBIE DOWNER. She rants on about how ignorant her husband is, tests on on minute random details, irrelevant to the class like What was the exchange rate of the Brazilian currency on February 9, 2008...We have to know every member of every NAFTA/Mercoursour/ASEAN/EU agreement and who each member is...What else? Oh her pointless "Lecture Slides" are no more than her going through the book and OUtlining the headings and subsections of each chapter...NOT THE INFO in those sections...JUst the titles ..and then doesn't give any information on those topics... The simulation? -no one knows what it really is...you end up just making a contract with arbitrary numbers and has random assignments based on turning in random Cash Flow and IRR calculations that have no explanation or relevancy to the lectures, simulation, nor tests...BUT THEY ARE ON THE TESTS,,, Lastly, she gives her personal evaluation of stuff you can't even evaluate...For instance this is something she would probably say: "I'm actually fairly disappointed with the levels of corruption and piracy based on these numbers...I reallly feel like China and India should, should really be less corrupt by now...and Latin America, I just don't get, I mean, why wouldn't they just stop fighting the civil wars there. They just don't pass in my book. " - as if these things are really quantifiable and judgeable of the all-might ramsey, as if her opinion matters, - as if she has all the answers and they are all no-brainers.

If you do not want to work, stay away from any of the International Business courses. What make me sick is that all business knobs are required to take on international course to fulfill a requirement. They tend to cruise thru joke concentrations (please, who is really a good teacher in Econ, Marketing or Finance especially) and then get to their International courses and because they actually have to think, write and text at the same time...oh...my...it is Jere\'s fault. She knows her stuff and simply delivers. Don\'t take her. In fact, wait til the Dean offers a course with Orfalea and sign up for that..or sign up for the 446 joke online or better yet...go to see if you can drive through Chili Peppers and the Dean will give you free food and an automatic A. Ramsey hasn\'t changed, the students and their \"assumed\" I paid my fee, give me my \"B\" certainly has. Take courses from your own concentration and remain jobless as we go international.

It seems as though jere has lost her muse for teaching. It was a depressing class that I dreaded going to. I have heard of other 402 classes that were intriguing and combined all aspects of business learned thus far into a cool simulation. Jere's simulation...we never had any idea what she wanted from us, what we were supposed to learn from it and it seemed as though she didn't either. I feel like she used to be a good teacher because she got tenure and her comments from when she first started are solid, but do not take her now!!!