COMM 4680

This is the worst class I've taken in comm ever. The professor loves to hear himself talk and it makes for really boring classes. There are a couple of group projects that are pretty lowkey and I wouldn't say it's too much work except for the final paper. He asks you to write a 6,800 word 'manual' on how to be an entrepreneur despite not having taught you anything the entire semester. I know so much about him, but little about entrepreneurship. The manual then counts for 35% of your grade. The rest of your grade is a mix of participation and case votes, which he leaves to his TAs to grade. There are no rubrics, so you have no guidance on how to answer the votes. You don't get feedback for the votes until you've turned in more than half of them. On top of that, he plays favorites and doesn't remember anyone else's name. If you try to answer, he cuts you off halfway and rambles on about what you should have said. The reading materials are really dated, some from over 10 years ago which isn't a good look for entrepreneurship because it's definitely not the same as it was 10 years ago. The cases are boring and he spends the majority of the class talking instead of letting the class participate. Overall, he's a really boring professor who's just trying to relive his entrepreneur days through his students. You do get to work on your own project during the semester but as someone who doesn't want to be an entrepreneur, it was tedious. However, this was probably the only time he was helpful.