Carol Johanek
3 courses · 31 reviews
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2 or less hrs/week
Lecture heavy. A little boring but not too challenging. Lots of group work and projects but not too much time outside of class until the end of the semester
5/22/2024
2 or less hrs/week
Very manageable. Lectures can be dry but not difficult. Buying the textbook is not necessary because everything you need is on the class slides. Johanek is kind and friendly
5/22/2024
She has high expectations on students and takes points off easily from smallest mistakes. But when it comes to her own work and powerpoint she seems less strict with herself.
5/2/2022
Johanek uses her personal experience to enrich the class. I appreciated all of the feedback we were given on our projects, and she really helped me enjoy Marketing even more. She appreciates hard work and participation, and if you try your best, she will give you a good grade in the class. I highly recommend taking a class with her!
1/13/2021
She uses lots of real world examples. If you read textbook and follow her study guide she gives, you can do well and learn a lot.
2/9/2020
Prof Johanek has a great heart and a lot of knowledge about current industries. However, her lectures can be all over the place and a tad boring. I learned the most through the group project, rather than her lectures. That being said, she truly cares about her students and will go out of her way to help them with whatever they need.
1/2/2020
Johanek's industry experience is vast! - very up-to-date on technology and analytics
2/22/2019
Really enjoyed Prof J - Her lectures were very current and she tied concepts to actual applications which was great! Very fair -never took any sides but presented pros/cons to different types of thinking - learned a lot!
10/19/2018
Johanek is an excellent instructor who brings alot of her own experience into the classroom. Very intelligent and current in her field - Engaging instructor - keeps you on your toes - Great sense of humor - Always there if you need her - Highly recommend her -
9/21/2018
Not a great lecturer, asks redundant questions and can't answer student questions. Tests on textbook material, not much from lecture. Takes off points very easily on homework and also participation in class.
5/8/2017
There is very little the professor says that is not covered by the book. As a lecturer, she says a lot of words which provide surprisingly little information. Depends a lot on step-by-step formulas. That said, she is very nice, does her best to be helpful, and in the end, actually does know what she's doing through her industry experience.
4/17/2012
Very enthusiastic & personable. Assignments are not extremely difficult, but they're tedious and all over the place - hard to keep track of grades as a result. Don't retain significant anything from class, which sometimes makes homework and reports difficult. Just memorize textbook vocab for exams.
4/22/2010
Johanek is fun, easy, and overall a good marketing professor... come prepared, do the readings because she does have pop quizzes. the finals/midterms are usually recycled.
10/1/2008
Pretty good, really enjoys and is knowledgeable about her topic. Overall worth taking international with, there is a big group project that is pretty easy to do well on.
12/3/2007
Easy class...mostly common sense but she talks and rambles a lot about her work and random companies during lectures. very repetitive, asks the class a fill in the blank question all the time(though no one dares to say a thing). Just read the slides and book and get an easy A.
11/27/2007
The class is ridiculously easy, just cram for finals. Unfortunately class is mandatory and you learn almost nothing. Very boring.
11/28/2006
She's great. The class is fascinating and easy, she is very entertaining, and you learn a lot.
10/9/2006
The class is very easy, because the material is very intuitive and she gives out a sheet with all the info on the exams. However, she teaches fairly poorly and asks broad, easy questions over and over again in class... "what is target audience, somebody tell me... what is target audience?..." etc.
7/18/2006
I liked this class and Johanek... other than it being mostly common sense. She tries to engage the class, but everyone seems out of it. Other than sporadic homeworks, theres 2 exams and one group project. They're not particularly difficult and I feel like she grades easily. Worth taking with Johanek.
4/25/2006
The class is pretty worthless. If you don't have to take it, don't. Your time is better spent elsewhere. She is pretty knoledgeable, but quietly arrogant. Also, the entire class seemed very superficial. Grading is completely subjective. Use magic words.
3/27/2006
Professor Johanek is extremely enthusiastic about her work and a very good professor. The supplemental readings were so interesting; the text book is a joke though.
12/26/2004
It was an easy class, but it was fun too. She's very passionate about what she teaches, and taking her class has increased my interest in Marketing. A+
12/24/2004
way to easy a class. i found her very accessable outside of class.
12/24/2004
She is terrible. As an instructor, she did not make herself available for the students, nor did she take the time to address concerns. I had to meet with 2 deans and a counselor in order to get a meeting with her. Completely unprofessional in many ways. I would never take a class from her again.
12/23/2004
This prof made me want to be a marketing major! She is so cool!
12/22/2004
nice lady, marketing should not be a class though because you dont learn anything. Its just the text book people making up stupid terms for intuitive things. Her tests are fair, her outfits are kinda wierd though
12/19/2004
Very funny and loud. Loves to talk and is very informative. Great woman!
7/9/2004
Great teacher, pretty interesting, has a lot of marketing experience; however, she loves to talk about herself most of the time. Not a very difficult class.
11/25/2003