COMM 1800

Leopold is an incredible lecturer and it is great that he is taking over for all Comm 1800 sections. But the TAs for this section were fourth years that clearly didn't care much about the class. Never paid attention during lecture and were not clear at all in their guidelines at the beginning of the course. Overall, Leopold is great, but grading in this course is wack and doesn't have much merit in how much effort you put in the course...

Leopold is cool, you can tell he's super smart and really enjoys what he does. The class is pretty much a giant discussion and you get points for participating. Exams aren't too bad but ti's a little confusing to know what to study and you have pretty easy/short homework assignments due every class. There is a lot of reading, but not all the readings are necessary but some help with the hw/exam. It's not completely necessary to go to class he just does an online poll at the beginning of class where you go on your phone and click if you were there or not. Overall pretty easy and fun class.

Leopold has more guest lecturers than lectures he actually teaches himself. He's a great guy and is extremely nice but I just wish HE would teach a bit more and give less busy work. You have a homework due every class and it can get tedious and sometimes a little boring. Overall, if you're taking this class its probably because you need the pre-req, so you really don't have a choice to not take the class. I guess just make the most of your time and grind through it, because the material is easy to understand.

Professor Leopold is very knowledgeable in the course and is a very good professor. However, the grading is kinda whack in the course. Leopold doesn't provide rubrics to students so it's not like the TAs have a set standard of grading to. So the grading is all about what your TA thinks about your paper. You can put all the time in the world on the bigger projects and still get a B. The amount of effort I put into the big projects went down by the end of the semester and I still got high Bs on them. I think it's important to know what your TA is looking for rather than Professor Leopold. I learned a lot in this class but I'm not sure the grades I got on the assignments are a full reflection of that. You don't get feedback on your assignments so you aren't really learning where you lost points or where you can improve. Unless you need it for the Comm School, I recommend taking the lower level class for non-business majors.

The midterm is stupidly difficult and complicated. After looking at the grade averages, I quickly realized that my grade sucked not because I was a terrible student but because the exams are awful to say the least. Random, annoying, and deliberately tricky, the exams really kill a student's ability to enjoy the course. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO. this class is not fun at all.

Leopold is a great guy who you can tell truly enjoys teaching. However, the grading is done by 4th year TAs who are not consistent in their grading and don't seem to care much to be honest. I didn't find the exams difficult, but they are only around 30 questions so if you get a question wrong you are already a goner. If Kemp was still around, I would honestly rather take it with him, even though reviews about him weren't enthusiastic, because at least you would get the grade you earn and actually learn more useful ideas to commerce. A lot of the projects you do are very subjective in nature and their is not set rubric or clear instructions about these assignments. Also the content of the class can seem a bit useless in the second half of the semester with topics like diversity and "creative thinking."

Anyway, I would not recommend this class, but if you're pre-comm you have to take this anyway, so you won't be able to wiggle your way out of this but good luck--you'll need it!

I personally found his class very interesting, and it was one of the few classes I enjoyed this semester. I've heard pretty mixed reviews about his class from others though, but it is mainly due to the participation requirement. The tests are do-able and he puts study guides up, but I definitely underestimated the midterm.

Although Professor Leopold is a great guy and full of knowledge, the course definitely does not reflect this and is easily one of the most boring / useless classes I've taken, although necessary for the Comm school. The lecture parts of class weren't bad, but the first 45 minutes or so would be a discussion where the professor would call on ~10 students to share what they wrote about for homework - extremely boring and not helpful, except to the people who need participation points. There's a poll at the beginning of each class that's mandatory for attendance, so you have to go to lecture and endure the tediousness. The homeworks were also busy work-ish and there were tons of assigned readings, but not all readings are necessary for the exam. As another reviewer said, the topics on the second half of the course were pretty useless or obvious, like "diversity in business" or "ethics in business". The midterm was only ~30 questions and the questions were EXTREMELY difficult and subjective, so it was basically impossible to prepare for. The final was a lot better, but the midterm grade drags you down even though the material is so easy to understand. In addition, the group projects and individual projects were good grade boosters but if you got points off, you'd never know why because there is no set rubric for any of those assignments. Overall, I would not recommend taking this course unless you absolutely have to.

Professor Leopold was very great and an enthusiastic teacher; however, the class itself is pretty useless. A lot of the information is common sense or things that you could learn from just reading an article. When people asked me way I learned in this class, I could never really come up with an answer. I liked his idea of us learning through example, but the endless discussions about the articles we read, seemed like overkill. Also, the grading was extremely subjective based on your TA; you would do a group project and then they would just give you a grade with no indication of what you did wrong or feedback. I literally would have never known who my TA was if I didn't run into him once. The exams were also pretty hard to study for because you did really learn many concrete things and the questions were a little weird. All this being said, the class was ok, but definitely not an easy A.

professor leopold was very engaging and made our assignments very relevant to real world problems! readings were really interesting