Course evaluation

Today was the last class before the holidays and the exams and it's about time to give some grades. As students we're getting grades all the time, but today it's the other way round.

Thai language (C+):
In the beginning of my stay I found this course very usefull, because we learned many words that we could use in everyday life such as different dishes, fruits or numbers. What I didn't like was that within 3 months our teacher changed 3 times and they all had very different teaching methods. Personally I found it the hardest with the second teacher so after studying Thai for 1,5 months my motivation was lost. Even though I enjoyed the 3rd teachers classes I decided to drop out of this class 2 weeks before the christmas holidays, due to the fact that I will be unable to attend the final exam.

Marketing (B-):
I like the subject so I was quite motivated to take Marketing. The teacher was trying really hard to make everyone understand the subject, but unfortuntely the English of some of the Thai students was still quite limited so it often took a lot of time to finish a topic. That made it a bit boring sometimes. Another thing I didn't like was, that we were supposed to have a quiz on every topic, but often the quizzes were canceled or postponed. The course syllabus said that only the ten best scores of the quizzes would count for our final grade so less quizzes means that we cannot improve our grade, if we didn't do well in one of the quizzes.

Strategic Management (B+):
Looking back at this course I must say that it was one of my favourites, even though I wasn't so sure about it in the first place. I liked that we had group discussions and short presentations instead of quizzes, because we could practice our presentation skills and got feedback afterwards. The pace was a little faster than Marketing, which was good as well. During the last two weeks we played a simulation game during the classes. In the beginning I was a bit sceptical but that quickly changed and I got really motivated to win this game with my group. In the end we got 2nd out of 8 which is not too bad either :)

International Business (B):
I give this class a B because we were talking about a lot of things that I've heard before so sometimes it wasn't as interesting for me than it could have been. However, some of my friends said it was their favourite class. It was definitely the one were we had to do the most work. 3 case studies, lots of homework, inclass exercises and at least 1 quiz per week made sure that we were busy during the semester.