I had her for her first quarter at UCSB and she was facing pressure from the department to make sure that COMM88 would be hard enough to weed out enough students. She is very kind and really does want to see you succeed, but she was unorganized af. TA's and her were never on the same page. If I didn't have such a helpful TA I woulda been pissed

Professor Houston was an okay professor. I had her for one of her first quarters at SB. Her slides were copied and pasted from the textbook, she just basically read the textbook to us and then expected us to go read it again. Her tests were super difficult and required a lot of studying and sometimes the concepts covered were not even in the exams.

Professor Houston cares deeply for her students and is an all-around great person. The class lectures are typically engaging, but it depends on whether your class feels like participating or burying their head in their laptops. Highly recommend taking COMM 160OD or 168, they are both great classes.

Prof. is a great speaker and clearly passionate. Attendance really matters. Midterm was a bit tricky, but the papers balance the course out. The material isn't too challenging. Super interesting and relevant course.

Good professor, just a lot of busy work throughout the week. Every week we had two discussion posts, one midterm, a paper mid quarter and a huge paper as the final. Really interesting class, just be prepared for a ton of readings and discussions.

Super nice. Seems like she cares. Slides are just a repeat of the readings, you don't learning anything in class, but you she has iclicker attendance so you must be there. Assigns an unreal amount of busy work. Like unreal amount. Would strongly avoid taking this class. Wish I didn't