Worst professor I've ever had. The class made no sense. The material given was easy during lectures and readings but when it came to the exams it made zero sense. Homeworks also took a long time and they did not contribute at all to the course.

Hoopes was a HORRIBLE professor that made the class unnecesarily hard. She briefly read through the slides in her lectures and gave a bunch of homework that was heavily tested upon. Her tests were horribly written, mostly focusing on small details that we barely talked about in class. She had a few projects in class that were interesting but overall they were a lot of work that felt unnecesary. The grading in the class was very hard and we got no feedback from the staff in the class which made it really hard to improve our work. They reserved a few good grades for some assignments but most students got C's or D's on assignments. If you are not interested in Commerce, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. It is essentially a waste of time and you do not learn much about business.

Her teaching ability was poor at best, I did not improve on any facet of commerce throughout the course. Her grading was also incredibly inconsistent and there was little to no feedback provided by her or TAs. There were also no rubrics given or specific instructions for assignments which made it incredibly difficult to meet her skewed expectations. Furthermore. we had to do her and her TAs job by grading each other assignments on a generalized rubric that added nothing to our learning experience. Her lectures were redundant and were simplified reiterations of the reading. For what reason was a bike video game worth 10% of our grade. Absolute joke of a teacher and course. The exam questions had no relevance to the material or to the real world, she would pull absolutely arbitrary information from random discussions or pieces of the reading that were not covered in class. Would only recommend this class because it is a requirement for the COMM school.

Dumbest class I've ever taken in my life. Literally the easiest material ever but makes the exams unnecessarily hard for no reason. The professor includes the most random questions that we barely spoke about in class, and the exam questions have almost nothing to do with material that actually matters for the real world. The selection of questions on exams, at times, can seem extremely ambiguous and you often wonder why she would include such heinous goonery. Honestly wish I didn't have to take this class for Pre-Comm.

I took this course as a potential pre-comm major in the fall of my first year. It wasn't the best and wasn't the worst for a pre-req. A lot of the content is common sense and I personally didn't find it too interesting. The work was tedious but doable; a major part of your grade is a portfolio you work on throughout the course. Again, it was more tedious than interesting. The course looks at the fundamentals of business through a managerial lens (organization, motivation, etc.) and is more of a survey than a course that gets deep into the topics it covers. The tests are very doable; they are multiple choice and only cover the content in the module (there are 4 modules). Prof. Hoopes also gives you a guide with topics the test will cover. If you do the readings, do your homework on time, and pay attention, the course shouldn't be too hard and is pretty straight-forward. #tCFfall2021

The information in this course was pretty easy and sometimes felt obvious and I wondered why we even had to learn some things. However, for an intro course, it felt like there was a little too much work. We had to do a reading and a homework assignment for each class, create a portfolio for a company over the course of the semester, and do a few simulations. It wasn't that hard to do all these things it just felt tedious sometimes. Some of the exams were harder than they needed to be as it seemed like the information should just be straightforward. Professor Hoopes was fine, I feel pretty neutral about her as a professor. This class was overall easy as long as you do the assignments!