Professor Afifi is incredibly knowledgable and a great lecturer. My first comm course and I loved it. The course is made up of 4 exams and 2 papers as well as a small portion for section attendance and SONA. follow the detailed instructions for the papers. To succeed study Afifi's slides, briefly read the readings, and actively listen in class.

I really liked Prof Afifi as he has strong social consciousness and constantly ties what we learn to societal context. He is also a good lecturer and caring and understanding for students. Exams could be pretty hard and tricky, though, you'll only be able to get them correct if you understand concepts and their correlations thoroughly. Great TAs.

Professor Afifi lectures are super interesting and easy to follow. This class was required for pre-comm and I actually ended up enjoying it because of him. He is super accessible outside of class and responsive on email. If you keep up with the reading and take notes in lectures you'll do great!

He is a respected researcher. However, also a tough grader. The paper was graded so low. Lecture is easy to understand but was not well-organized. And his method for knowing whether you read or not is through some insignificant points (unrelated to theories). He cares about students but this class is very difficult in-person.

This prof is great! He genuinely cares about students and will try his best to accomodate people with tests and assignments. He understands that the time we are living in sucks and affects people strongly. He is clear about his expectations and makes lectures interesting and easy to understand.

Despite being a respected researcher and professor on campus, Afifi's course was nothing but inaccessible and meaningless to me. His 2 lectures per week put me to sleep and he constantly fell into tangents. That, along with the fact that he relied too much on his TAs to do his job made his online class a tremendous waste of my time and money.

Professor Afifi is hands down one of the best professors I have had. He relates lectures with topics that are relevant in today's world and he is EXTREMELY caring towards his students. If you are lucky enough to take him, you will learn a lot and his lectures are very interesting and relatable.

Overall Professor Afifi is a good professor. However he can at times be a little abstract. He also sometimes rambles or goes off topic, causing him to fall behind. He definitely cares about his student and is very understanding. Also a massive difficulty spike in last exam really trashed a lot of peoples grades.

Prof. Afifi is a great lecturer and is very considerate and accommodating to his students. Explains comm theories in an interesting way and connects them to major events like the pandemic & BLM as examples. There's either a paper or a test (2 papers, 4 midterms) almost every week, but it's all straightforward and manageable.

Walid is a great person that truly understands fairness, equality and privilege. He is extremely caring and his lectures are great. Sadly your grade mostly depends on the TA you have. Exams are fairly straightforward but the papers are graded tough!

Professor Afifi's online class was great, I would definitely recommend. Most of his lectures were pre-recorded and very interesting. There was no homework, and the tests and papers were very easy (be sure to follow the paper criteria very carefully if you want an A). Overall a very interesting class, and he cares a lot about his students!

Afifi is an awesome lecturer and his lecture is attractive. The prompt of papers are clear and the exams are fair.

This was my first comm class at UCSB. Lots of reading but exams were not that difficult. Exams are reading based and lecture based so pay attention.

Amazing professor!! He cares so much about his students and is interesting in lecture. Take his class

Professor Afifi lowered everyone grades because of a mistake he made, and blamed it on the students after the quarter ended. Tests are based on his rambling in lecture, not slides, slides are plain, I did better on exam reading the nonrequired textbook instead of going to lecture. Doesn't really live up to his frame in the department.

Lowered everyone's exam grade by 10p after the semester ENDED because of an error he overlooked on his system,send long email to ALL students BLAMING us for not telling him .Unprofessional, focus too much on his own research instead.

If you mention that you're a first generation student he'll give you a better grade. Not kidding.

I was scared to take this class online (fk covid 19) with this professor because there were no comments about him so I thought I would share with you all :) It is week 3 and I can genuinely say this is my favorite professor. He is extremely respectful to his students and actually wants us to. He literally made our class our own Spotify playlist!!!!

He's a super nice & funny person, but not a great lecturer. He goes on tangents a lot and will rush towards the end of the quarter. However, his tests are on the easier side and the paper was long but doable. He uploads all the slides and everything you need to know for the exams are on there. Definitely talk to him about the paper.

COMM 151 over the summer with Dr. Afifi was awesome! Very interesting class. His class is mostly lecture based with 1-2 readings (it was only a 3 week class). Grade was based on midterm, paper and final. Overall, amazing content and his lectures are easy to follow. He posts slides online but take notes on everything he says and you'll pass.

his 3 week course is terrible -he's making us write a 7 page paper along with 2 exams while other profs discarded the paper. -very unclear with what he wants us to know for exams. He NEVER gets straight to the point during lect -uploaded our study guide for the midterm one day before the midterm and titled it "very incomplete study guide".

Finally got the chance to take the famed Afifi and he's worth the hype! His lectures are engaging, relatable, and he adds a depth of social awareness to his topics. He's a great LGBT ally and recognizes his privileges. He genuinely cares about his students, and he's very straightforward with grading and tests. I'd take him again!

I enjoyed this class and Afifi's way of lecturing. He is funny and makes the lecture go by fast. The material is interesting and relevant, he shows a lot of video clip examples and tells personal stories about his family. He encourages discussion and will call on you. The usual research paper and straight forward tests, but you got to study.

He is passionate about this stuff and really informative about social justice. However, he has no structure and his objectives are unclear. He moves deadlines around so it becomes confusing to stay on top of what is due when. His expectations for the group project are unrealistic and there is not enough guidance. I really regret this class.