CGBM 2110

If you're taking the general business minor, try to take the class with Prof. Franks. He's a solid lecturer, although don't rely on his slide decks for content - they're good, but honestly, when it came down to studying for the class, he provides much more useful resources in his homework and external links (investopedia and linkedin learning, mostly) that I pretty much exclusively used to study. He gives take home quizzes which are meant to be free, and participation is part of your grade, but all that means is "paying attention" during class (making eye contact with him if he looks at you, if anything - he doesn't know anyone anyways). He also gives "pre-class work" that is kind of ridiculous for a 1.5 credit course, I don't know anyone who did it (he goes over it in class anyway). The exams are tough ngl, really know every little thing he could ask, because he will. Average on exams were in the 60s-70s, but he curves up. Overall though, great professor if you're doing the minor, he's pretty open to questions if you schedule office hours as well.

Professor Franks is a kind instructor who occasionally tries to bring laughs into the classroom. The course grade breakdown is 15% participation and engagement, 15% quizzes, 30% midterm, and 40% final exam. For participation, we were not given name tents like in other CGBM courses, so it was unclear how participation was actually tracked. Despite this, attendance remained relatively high, with roughly 3/4's of the class attending regularly.

Lecture slides contain very little content, so students must rely heavily on what Professor Franks explains verbally during class. Before each lecture, he suggests multiple readings and usually a pre-class assignment that is not graded. These are typically discussed during class. Some students chose to skip these pre-class assignments.

There were 4 take-home quizzes, each taking about 1-2 hours to complete. They were straightforward and it was reasonable to score in the 90%+ range. Both the midterm and final exams were paper-based and consisted entirely of multiple-choice and true/false questions. Students were allowed to bring their own calculators. Each exam generally took the full class period. The exam averages were around 60s-70s, but Professor Franks applied a curve.