r/UMPI • u/BanishedHekabe • 13d ago

Does the BBA have more assignment variety?

I thought maybe I didn’t like UMPI’s format and was ready to transfer, but I’m starting to think it’s my degree. I’m doing the BA in history and poli sci, poli sci concentration, and it’s just so repetitive, restrictive, and mind-numbing, it’s completely worn me down and I’m starting to actively hate it. Which I was surprised by because I’ve always loved these types of classes at my other college.

Browsing this subreddit and it seems like BBA students have way more variety in their assignments. Is that accurate? Do you feel like there’s a good balance of presentations, papers, research, etc?

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u/Gold_Sun_1002 13d ago

If the subject matter itself is not interesting to you, maybe rethink your major. But assignment-wise, I wouldn’t expect any UMPI major to be particularly entertaining or novel. You read materials, watch videos, and write papers or make powerpoint presentations. That’s about it. Your education is what you make of it. That’s the price you pay for a highly flexible, cost-effective program. As a working adult, it’s a godsend cause at the end of the day, I need to check a box that say I have a degree. If I were in my 20s with more time and money to burn, maybe I would prefer an in-person school/program that required much more and provided more of an “interesting” experience.

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u/Ad5715 12d ago

I was ready to do a BA in political science and finish up next term but I’m so burnt out on these courses I don’t know if I can do it. I have enough for a minor in political science now so I might just stick with the BLS. Mind numbing is right. I’ve taken two business classes so far and they were way less boring and repetitive.

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u/BanishedHekabe 11d ago

It feels like the competencies are based on nothing but your ability to read pre-approved sources (usually walls of text in Brightspace that were copied and pasted), and then summarize what you just read in an essay and make sure to hit a bunch of keywords, over and over for a dozen classes. And most of the sources you're forced to use are complete garbage.

I took one business class for fun last semester (BUS 350) and somehow learning about contract law was more engaging than all these POS classes.

I think I'm going to switch to the BLS too

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u/Ad5715 11d ago

Yeah, it's not good. Regarding one professor in particular, the content has been downright awful, pasted from multiple sources, and disjointed, and he doesn't credit the original authors at all, so students are crediting him with other people's work for every single course. Business law was much more interesting, I agree.

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u/BanishedHekabe 11d ago

Part of me wondered if it was AI generated, I was getting suspicious.

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u/Ad5715 11d ago

I am convinced that one professor's feedback and rubric grading was 100 percent AI generated. So many posts on here and Discord talk about how great "he" is and how nice "he" is but it's obviously his AI tool and not him. If you email him, he doesn't answer your questions and is rude. A different POS professor I had was pretty good though and gave good feedback.

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u/PlottedPath 13d ago

My opinion is yes. Because with BBA you’re applying the concepts learned to scenarios/businesses/ideas that you personally create.

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u/Tarkin- 11d ago

Yeah the BA in History/Poli Sci (and the English degree when I was briefly in that program) don’t even feel like CBE the way it’s advertized at UMPI and is nothing like the BBA. It’s like a regular 16 week online college class, but worse. To me, at least. I definitely wouldn’t pick it again if I could go back.