Great professor. Boring materials. Annoying exams. Frustrating grading. Have little to do with "Commerce," while you can learn about the US legal system on Youtube in an hour.

Just take it.

While Prof. Moore's lecturing style did much to liven the material up, this course feels a little misrepresented by the description and the other reviews. It is not a class about commercial law, but rather American civil law writ large. There's some in contract law and a tiny bit about the UCC (literally one article) that deals with business in particular, but that's it. No compliance, no ethics, no anticompetition. Even worse for an undergraduate course COMM 3410 deals exclusively with current fact, no theory. The course and the tests are 90% the law itself, treating it as fixed and rigid. In this regard, the class is comparable to high school, which is as boring as one would expect. The grade is 80% determined by tests which allow for a cheat sheet. While this makes the class straightforward as anything, it also means that the evaluation for knowing the law is an evaluation of rote memory.

This class was extremely interesting and applicable to every day life. Also, even if you are not interested in pursuing a career in law, Sherri Moore is an amazing, inspirational lecturer! She made even the dry material (property law) interesting and she was great at engaging the class. She is always available for office hours, and I highly recommend to take advantage of them and get to know her outside of class. The class is easy. Read over your notes before tests and quizzes and write really small on your cheat sheets. It was very possible to write all of your notes from each section on the cheat sheets if you wrote small enough. Great class, even better professor!

To begin, yes Sherri Moore is a legend - you don't need another person telling you that to figure out it's true. She is great, hands down. Get to know her whether you take this class or not.

However, I was a bit disappointed with the class itself. I had to take it since it is a comm requirement, but I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have to take it. A few reasons:

1) You have to hand write notes in class, and she moves so quickly that your hand is in pain by the end of it. Also, if you aren't laser focused through the whole hour, you will 100% miss some tiny detail that shows up on the quiz or test. Frustrating. That leads me to my next point...

2) The tests. It's not that they are hard, they are just annoying. I welcome a challenging question that requires critical thinking - we go to college to learn, and good tests teach you things. However, Sherri asks so many questions that involve knowing a specific exception to a law that only applies to the state of New Jersey or something. So you need to be lucky on two fronts: one, you were paying attention during lecture when she mentioned some tiny specific nuance and wrote it down; and two, you decided to include it in your cheat sheet. See what I mean? The 100 question final wasn't fun either.

3) The weekly quizzes were pretty annoying. Not that they were hard either, but it was just something that you needed to do every single week. It got exhausting by the end of the semester. Too much work for a 4th year.

I definitely learned some useful things, but nothing a YouTube video titled "Useful things to know about the U.S. Legal system in 1 hour!" wouldn't have taught me. Hope this clears stuff up for people.

I recommend this course, with some reservations. Sherri Moore is an excellent lecturer, and extremely knowledgeable about the subject matter. The tests are fair, especially if you use your cheat sheets effectively, while an A is still hard to get. The quizzes are every week and usually not too tricky. The only problem with this class is really its structure. She doesn't allow computers, phones, etc. so the only notetaking is by hand. There's also no textbook or online notes, so the only way to get the info is to go to class and handwrite lecture notes for about an hour (class usually ends early) every single lecture of the semester. No computers is a fair policy, and her being a good lecturer largely makes up for it, but there is really not one lecture all semester where you don't handwrite notes for the entirety of the class. That said, the content is extremely interesting, and Sherri Moore is definitely a professor worth having, so if you can get over the structure of the course, it's well worth it.

professor moore is anything but overrated, hands down the best professor I've had at UVa

Sherri Moore is the best professor that I have ever had. She makes the class incredibly interesting and you will learn SO much in this class. She cares so much about her students and the material that she is teaching. This class is the first class I ever recommend to someone when they ask for an interesting class. Do not leave UVA without taking this class!!

This class is very overrated. I came in here expecting to be in the 'best class at UVa'... and I was disappointed. I guess I had high expectations before I came in. Don't get me wrong though, it was a great class. Sherri Moore is a phenomenal and inspirational woman. She tries her best to keep lectures engaging; however, she's not the best lecturer. She bounces around the course outline and spend 1-2 sentences on a few topics... which makes it nearly impossible to keep up. The class is very restrictive as well. It almost feels like I'm in middle school. She kicks you out if you use an electronic device (fortunately, I take notes on paper for all my classes), she calls you out when you leave early or fall asleep, and she gives you a mean glare if you come in late. She doesn't teach off the book, making it impossible to pass if you don't show up to lecture. There's nothing to study other than your notes and if you missed something, you're screwed. She doesn't post her notes because she's self conscious that less people will show up. College classes should revolve around the success of the students, not forcing students to show up to your class. The structure of the class in general is just very poor. That being said, I would still recommend this class. Sherri Moore is a very sweet person. She's an amazing advisor and really loves to get to know her students. The class has no homework other than studying for the weekly quizzes (which takes like 1 hour) and studying for the exams (~6-8 hours, but very occasional). You're allowed to bring a hand written cheat sheet to the exams, which helps. One of the reviews said you get extra credit for making a cheat sheet: that's a lie. There's a quiz drop extra credit but it's almost worthless. The material starts off dry, but becomes much more interesting when you reach Contract Laws. A lot of the stuff is very applicable to life and it's a great feeling! Getting an A is extremely difficult (95+)... so don't expect it to be that easy. I think I held a 98 all semester and blew it on the final. (which was much more difficult compared to the first two exams and worth 50% of your final grade) Overall, a pretty worthwhile class. Applicable class with a sweet professor and very minimal work. You probably won't get an A unless you put in a ton of work and religiously go to office hours. The class does have a very restricted feel to it, so if you enjoy your 'college freedom', you should probably stay away.

Sherri Moore is the most amazing teacher I had this semester! Make sure to study for the midterms and do well on all of the quizzes. They will buffer your grade for the final because it is weighted 50%

Test 1: 15%
Test 2: 15%
Clicker Quizzes (10 total): 20%
Final Exam: 50%