COMM 2600

Love Professor Lovelace, inspiring teach and incredibly understanding. He really wants you to learn the material and does all he can to keep the stress off. I've develop a great relationship with him and I highly recommend taking this course as it is an important course if you want to understand your own leadership style.

Prof. Lovelace was a very good professor who you could tell was passionate about the class and really cared about the students and having them succeed. He was very clear in expectations and provided many opportunities to connect with him if there were questions or topics to clarify. The class went through a book and it pretty much stuck to that book. You could miss class and you would be fine as long as you read that chapter. If you read the book, you did pretty well. The tests were a bit nit picky though. There is also a final paper that is not hard, just kind of annoying. Overall, pretty good class, nothing too exciting.

As long as you actually read the Northouse book before lectures, you're all set! Lecture reinforces everything you read, and you get an idea of what is/isn't important. I never found the class to be boring, and it's pretty easy to engage with the material and with Lovelace if you simply participate in class. The first test was pretty difficult (specifically the FR), since it covered so many chapters and expected us to have memorized verbatim specific parts of models and theories. However, he made a study guide for the last two tests and pretty much pulled from the study guide which was much more fair and helpful. I think it's easy to do well in this class as long as you actually make an effort to study rather than brushing off the material as common sense. Yes, it can be a lot of material, since all the concepts and models are similar to what you would learn in a psych class...but it's kind of your job to study that material, and Lovelace really gives you everything you need to do well in this class.

Let me be the first to say...lol. First, Lovelace is, for the most part, very structured and clear. The exams are heavily based on the reading and structured like long reading quizzes with the most tiny, useless details from the book. You don’t have to think or understand, you just need A LOT of time to memorize to prepare which seems kind of silly and wasteful in terms of actually learning. I did enjoy how Lovelace incorporated a lot of student engagement like group discussions, class questions, and journal entries which made the class more enjoyable and less boring, but when he did lecture it was pretty boring because the info came straight from the book. He brought in guest lecturers which was really cool. Sometimes the lectures were truly interesting like the dark side of leadership, etc. Lovelace also grades very slowly....like don’t expect anything for at least two weeks, which can be a bit frustrating. This class has a comm vibe so if you’re pre-Comm this could be a good option.