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Oliver Schlake BMGT289J Expecting an A adurand 05/03/2023	The professor's lessons were kinda all over the place and he talks a lot about his life experiences and nothing too relevant. The tests are pretty subjective too, and he doesn't release grades until the end of the semester. Overall, he's a really nice guy just not the best at teaching.
Oliver Schlake BMGT289J Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/16/2022	Prof. Schlake is sooo nice, but he’s a horrible professor. He method of teaching is all over the place, we never actually learnt anything relevant. He doesn’t grade fast enough, but he grades very tough for some reason. He has too high expectations for his students, as well as the work you do, which isn’t bad but it puts a lot of pressure on you which confuses you in the process. The final made no sense, the whole thing was entirely subjective and the questions were worded wierd. It was just not a pleasant class.
Mark Wellman BMGT289J Anonymous 12/19/2021	The pedestal some students put him on is bewildering. Wellman masks his rudeness with arrogance, and his “reputation.” He assigns an personal reflection that is 13 pages single spaced, heavy emphasis on personal. He does not understand the word “personal” as he has specific ideas about what should be included. He and his TA play favorites too. He also cannot use proper grammar but let a student makes the same mistake, he would not read your paper and then criticize you for not being proper. He’s an arrogant and hypocritical professor.
Mark Wellman BMGT289J Anonymous 12/16/2021	The expectations Dr. Wellman has for his students are unreasonable and the workload is way too much. Dr. Wellman is very specific about page/word count and I often find myself repeating the same ideas just to fill up to the page count. You're expected to read tons of articles every week and write long reflections after them. The class itself is extremely boring as Dr. Wellman just lectures off of his slides. Worst of all, on exams, he expects you to know very specific details from the huge pile of readings or modules that you have read from the past months and he refuses to curve the grades when the whole class did poorly on the exams. Definitely do not recommend.
Mark Wellman BMGT289J Anonymous 12/11/2021	The worst class offered here at UMD. His subpar teaching along with the heavy amount of work leave students feeling overworked. This is class is offered to first years in a program. For what it is, Dr. Wellman had way too high of an expectation for first years who are taking this in the first semester. He has no empathy and would be passive aggressive to students. The lectures were long and hard to listen to. All he does is sit and read off the slides. The TA doesn’t even help because he is late majority of the time. This class has been a waste of time and nothing valuable came out of it. Dr. Wellman assigns busy work but massive amounts of it.
Mark Wellman BMGT289J Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/09/2021	Dr. Wellman is very disorganized and has his TA grade most of his assignments. Even if you work very hard in his class and take notes on all the articles and all the modules and pay attention in class, you can still do very badly on his midterm (which he does not curve by the way). The average was a 60% and dropped grades significantly (this was the difference between this year and the previous year). There was no reason to test on 20 articles where we had to point out specifically what one specific "stakeholder" said. I tried to turbocharge my decision making on this test but ultimately it did not serve me well. All in all, would not take Dr. Wellman again.
Mark Wellman BMGT289J Anonymous 11/14/2021	Dr. Wellman's class has an extreme and disorganized workload. The class consists of multiple "simulations" and subsequent "reflections" and, if it is a group project, "evaluations." The timelines of all of these projects overlap heavily, causing students to have several concurrent simulation projects and papers at once. Every week, there is a discussion post due on Wednesday, in which he assigns a module from the textbook and numerous articles and/or videos for you to go through and then answer several questions about. It is clear that these resources are what he considers to be the "meat" of the class. For our class, he gave a midterm that was extremely specific based on readings, articles, and modules that he assigned. The specifics went down into quotes from specific people in one of the countless articles that he assigned to read. The class in and of itself is extremely hard to pay attention to as his in-class examples are vague, long, and rather droning. The TA is also absolutely worthless, is always late, has a bad attitude in class, and generally is extremely unhelpful. Overall, I would not recommend taking this class, as I find it to be more work than it is worth and generally there is not a lot of learning accomplished in it.
Mark Wellman BMGT289J Expecting an A rrex 12/18/2020	Dr. Wellman is a caring professor who wants his students to succeed. That said, he gives a lot of work to help his students learn as much as possible, and this can become a bit repetitive at times in my opinion. The class itself is a study of leadership and good leadership practices, and the many simulations we completed allowed the application of material that we learned. It is one of the first semester classes for the BSE Scholars program, and were I not in the program I wouldn't have taken the class, but I am glad that I did for the experience.

Oliver Schlake
BMGT289J

Expecting an A
adurand
05/03/2023

The professor's lessons were kinda all over the place and he talks a lot about his life experiences and nothing too relevant. The tests are pretty subjective too, and he doesn't release grades until the end of the semester. Overall, he's a really nice guy just not the best at teaching.

Oliver Schlake
BMGT289J

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/16/2022

Prof. Schlake is sooo nice, but he’s a horrible professor. He method of teaching is all over the place, we never actually learnt anything relevant. He doesn’t grade fast enough, but he grades very tough for some reason. He has too high expectations for his students, as well as the work you do, which isn’t bad but it puts a lot of pressure on you which confuses you in the process. The final made no sense, the whole thing was entirely subjective and the questions were worded wierd. It was just not a pleasant class.

Mark Wellman
BMGT289J

Anonymous
12/19/2021

The pedestal some students put him on is bewildering. Wellman masks his rudeness with arrogance, and his “reputation.” He assigns an personal reflection that is 13 pages single spaced, heavy emphasis on personal. He does not understand the word “personal” as he has specific ideas about what should be included. He and his TA play favorites too. He also cannot use proper grammar but let a student makes the same mistake, he would not read your paper and then criticize you for not being proper. He’s an arrogant and hypocritical professor.

Mark Wellman
BMGT289J

Anonymous
12/16/2021

The expectations Dr. Wellman has for his students are unreasonable and the workload is way too much. Dr. Wellman is very specific about page/word count and I often find myself repeating the same ideas just to fill up to the page count. You're expected to read tons of articles every week and write long reflections after them. The class itself is extremely boring as Dr. Wellman just lectures off of his slides. Worst of all, on exams, he expects you to know very specific details from the huge pile of readings or modules that you have read from the past months and he refuses to curve the grades when the whole class did poorly on the exams. Definitely do not recommend.

Mark Wellman
BMGT289J

Anonymous
12/11/2021

The worst class offered here at UMD. His subpar teaching along with the heavy amount of work leave students feeling overworked. This is class is offered to first years in a program. For what it is, Dr. Wellman had way too high of an expectation for first years who are taking this in the first semester. He has no empathy and would be passive aggressive to students. The lectures were long and hard to listen to. All he does is sit and read off the slides. The TA doesn’t even help because he is late majority of the time. This class has been a waste of time and nothing valuable came out of it. Dr. Wellman assigns busy work but massive amounts of it.

Mark Wellman
BMGT289J

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/09/2021

Dr. Wellman is very disorganized and has his TA grade most of his assignments. Even if you work very hard in his class and take notes on all the articles and all the modules and pay attention in class, you can still do very badly on his midterm (which he does not curve by the way). The average was a 60% and dropped grades significantly (this was the difference between this year and the previous year). There was no reason to test on 20 articles where we had to point out specifically what one specific "stakeholder" said. I tried to turbocharge my decision making on this test but ultimately it did not serve me well. All in all, would not take Dr. Wellman again.

Mark Wellman
BMGT289J

Anonymous
11/14/2021

Dr. Wellman's class has an extreme and disorganized workload. The class consists of multiple "simulations" and subsequent "reflections" and, if it is a group project, "evaluations." The timelines of all of these projects overlap heavily, causing students to have several concurrent simulation projects and papers at once. Every week, there is a discussion post due on Wednesday, in which he assigns a module from the textbook and numerous articles and/or videos for you to go through and then answer several questions about. It is clear that these resources are what he considers to be the "meat" of the class. For our class, he gave a midterm that was extremely specific based on readings, articles, and modules that he assigned. The specifics went down into quotes from specific people in one of the countless articles that he assigned to read. The class in and of itself is extremely hard to pay attention to as his in-class examples are vague, long, and rather droning. The TA is also absolutely worthless, is always late, has a bad attitude in class, and generally is extremely unhelpful. Overall, I would not recommend taking this class, as I find it to be more work than it is worth and generally there is not a lot of learning accomplished in it.

Mark Wellman
BMGT289J

Expecting an A
rrex
12/18/2020

Dr. Wellman is a caring professor who wants his students to succeed. That said, he gives a lot of work to help his students learn as much as possible, and this can become a bit repetitive at times in my opinion. The class itself is a study of leadership and good leadership practices, and the many simulations we completed allowed the application of material that we learned. It is one of the first semester classes for the BSE Scholars program, and were I not in the program I wouldn't have taken the class, but I am glad that I did for the experience.

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