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As echoed in the other reviews, Sherri Moore is the best part about this course. Her personality is amazing, her fashion sense is phenomenal, and her lecture style is unique and engaging! All of the topics that she covers are structured SO nicely and they are all important topics that you'll likely need to know as an adult someday. Although she does move through lecture material quickly, she takes questions and gives such thorough answers. You are allowed handwritten cheat sheets for exams (super helpful), but I did find myself facing one or two tricky questions so study up! There are weekly in-class quizzes but those are pretty easy if you review the material beforehand. Definitely recommend this course as a fun and interesting class!

Sherri Moore is hands down one of the best professors at UVA. She is so knowledgeable, personable, fashionable, and genuinely cares about her students! I have multiple friends who have gone to her for personal law advice, and she was super helpful. Her final lecture is one of the best things I've ever heard, and I will carry her message with me for as long as I live. However, the class is NOT easy, in my opinion. The tests are fair, but tricky. You do get two cheat sheets which is really helpful, as it would be nearly impossible to memorize all of the details about contracts and torts. You must pay attention in class, as her lecture style is pretty old school- she goes off of an outline (no powerpoint) and speaks/writes on the chalk board. If you miss lecture you're screwed. There are also weekly quizzes which aren't that difficult if you review the material, and you have the opportunity to have the lowest 2 dropped!

This is a great class to take if you're good at multiple choice tests. As for the rest of us, you're gonna have to work a little harder. There are weekly quizzes that make up 20% of your grade. I spent about 90 minutes the night before studying for them and ended up with a 96% average on them. When preparing for the test, ensure making your cheat sheet isn't your only time studying. You also want to know information that you couldn't fit on your cheat sheet. I made this mistake on the first exam and only got an 88% when I know I could have done better. As much as this seems like an easy A- class, you still need to work for it.

Sherri is amazing. Additionally, this course is useful to anyone regardless of major. Don't solely rely on cheat sheets to do well. Also I did the extra credit to drop a quiz grade and I can definitely say that it was not worth it. The quiz grade is worth 2% of your grade and the extra credit eats up a solid 6-7 hours of your time. It didn't even help my grade in the end. But not an easy A, despite what the distribution shows. But definitely can't say that I regret taking this class.

Really solid class. An A-/B+ is doable, but getting an A seems pretty tough to accomplish. There's no readings for the class, so the only work is studying for the weekly quizzes/tests. Doing well is really about building up a couple of skills. The weekly quizzes are heavy on memorization but the tests are more about applying class concepts to examples. There are generally a couple of straight memorization questions on tests but prepare accordingly and you'll be able to do fairly well in the class.

Take this class no matter what major you are!! Prof. Moore teaches you incredibly relevant things about your rights and contract law is especially helpful in life. Insanely fun class and Prof. Moore is one of the nicest ladies ever! I promise you won't regret taking this class. So worthwhile. There is a quiz every week so memorizing material gets easier and easier as the semester goes on. The two midterms are pretty easy (50 MC questions) and you get two cheat sheets. Final is a bit harder and you get 3 cheat sheets (100 MC questions). If you get into this class, TAKE IT!!

Great class. The only thing you have to do is show up and get the information she gives you. I'd recommend sitting closer to the front because she tends to write smaller due to the high amount of information, and there's no microphone to the class.

Definitely, recommend this class! Easy and fun to learn. However, beware of the exams as they are pretty detailed but its super easy to get a grade between B to A- on the exams. The first two exams are fairly easy but the final which is 100 questions can be a game changer. They offer many extra credit opportunities and make sure to do them early and get them out of the way because the cutoff for an A is so low anything which can help you tip over to the A grade is great. I didn't do the extra credit opportunities as I waited till the end and I ended up with an A- when I was really close to an A

She was, no joke, the best professor I've ever had. She was wonderful, knowledgable, hilarious, and just plain cheerful and kind. She's one of the professors that I feel like I'll remember when I'm old and still think back to her final lecture. She really taught me a valuable lesson in that class and, spoiler alert, wasn't about comm law.

This is by far the most wildly overrated class at UVA. To be a likable professor at UVA, as you can tell based off the other comments, you just have to have a sense of humor, be nice and energetic. In this class, she doesn’t post any PowerPoints or notes on online so if you miss class you are completely screwed. When you are in class, she will fly through the material so fast that you have to rely on the person sitting next to you to make sure you got everything. Does she need to go that fast? No. I hate to break it to you Sherri, but acting like you are doing students a favor by letting them out 20 minutes early for a class that ends at 1:45 is doing nobody any good. Of course this resonates with students (getting out 20 minutes early), but in reality you could get a much thorough explanation of the topics if she wanted to stay there and teach class for the allotted time. To get an A on the exams you need to have a true mastery of the content which is by all means fair. However, there are numerous questions that are poorly worded and vague. As for the TAs, they must feel great about themselves. I got news for you TAs, you are absolutely horrible at your job. For those that didn’t know, numerous people’s midterms were graded with the wrong key. You could have got a 94 in Collab and a 72 in reality without knowing until you went to review your exam (and vice versa). For that to happen in a COMM school class, much less happen at any class at UVA is a total joke. The TAs should be absolutely ashamed of themselves and Professor Moore should take a portion of that responsibility (they are her TAs and handpicked). Overall, a very disappointing course.