Quality of her slides are bad so to get the most info you should go to lecture (not mandatory). Readings can get dense especially if you're behind on them. Tests are MCQ but the final is cumulative, lecture heavy but do the readings. Content is overall interesting but the way it is taught is not. Choose topics that interest you for the papers!!

The exams aren't too bad if you make sure to go to lectures and basically memorize everything she tells you to memorize off the study guide. However, lecture did feel pretty lengthy and I personally found her to get a bit sassy with students when she was having a bad day. The class wasn't bad but she definitely wasn't the most intriguing.

professor gonzales is really nice and funny, but her classes are very paper and test heavy! be prepared to write and do a lot of readings. however, her tests are pretty straightforward (just really long). i honestly like her and would take a course with her again!

While Gonzales is sweet, her lecturers drag on and are a real snoozer. The slides are very vague and you basically have to write down everything she says which can be difficult as she goes on tangents. Tests aren't terrible, but the essays are challenging. Definitely try to avoid.

Probably my least favorite professor I've ever had. Her lectures are uninteresting, and her exams and papers are overly complicated. It's clear that she is only here for research and doesn't put as much effort into actually helping students learn. Save yourself the absolute headache that is this professor and take something else.

One of the least engaging professors I've had at UCSB. Her lectures are hard to pay attention to because they are flat-out uninspiring and boring. She essentially just talks at the class for 75 minutes. Her class is not structured well at all. She seems like a nice person but not a good professor.

Professor Gonzales is not the best lecturer. Her entire course is based off of memorizing information from readings which are usually between 40-60 pages per week of dense material. Not only that but she will change the rubric of her papers despite the syllabus stating stating something entirely different. Unfair grading, boring, and repetitive.

I'm not sure why this professor doesn't have better reviews! She is one of the few at UCSB who comes from a similar generation and understands student ideology. Her lectures were very organized and she made her points excellently clear, even telling you each detailed points you need to know for exams. I had a wonderful experience in her course !

Professor Gonzales is definitely a professor at UCSB who is there primarily for research purposes rather than teaching purposes. However, I found her to be very understanding and the material for the class is very interesting!

This class was interesting, but Gonzales made it way harder than it had to be. Test questions were phrased poorly, study guides and grades were rarely posted on time, and the TA gave no constructive feedback on the papers. I learned a lot, but it honestly wasnt worth the stress.

Took her comm184. course content is super interesting and relatable. I did get more in-depth understandings of the role that social media plays in real life, which is way more complicated than I was thinking of. fairly challenging course. Somehow hard to understand the material, tricky test questions. Glad I took it but won't take it again

People who do not do well in this class refuse to read the textbook and complain the professor was bad. She was not, she was very nice during office hours and seemed to really care about her students. I didn't attend lectures a lot, but when I was there people seemed to refuse to engage, but she tried to persuade them to.

This is not something I normally do, but I have to for Gonzalez. She was by far the worst proffesor I have ever had. She clearly has a disregard for the students as she does not understand how to effectively teach. She uses a lot of profanity and is very vulgar. Unfair grader as well. Stay away from this teacher.

Genuinely pretty awful exams had so many mistakes, pretty hard, and are in person also she had outdated essay outlines and examples so it made writing the essay a bit difficult but the essay is graded pretty easy which boosted my grade pretty high memoize EVERYTHING for the exams if you want a decent grade.

I would not recommend this class. Lectures were not well structured and Prof. Gonzales would ask students to explain concepts rather than lecturing herself. Exams were challenging (D+ average) and she discouraged students from coming to her for suggestions or advice on assignments. Any feedback she gave on the final essay was generic and unhelpful.

Of all of the classes I've had at UCSB this was one of the most boring and least engaging. The lectures feel uninspired, and Professor Gonzales is not the best lecturer in general. The tests and assignments often feel more like busy work than tools to learn. Overall I feel that while she is a nice enough person she is not a great professor.

First time having her and she isn't as bad as these reviews make her out to be. Definitely attend lecture because stuff on slides alone isn't enough, she adds great detail to them. There's a paper draft, final draft, one 5pt assignment, and a mc midterm and cumulative final that make up your grade. Try to keep up w readings otherwise they pile up.

This class was incredibly boring. Lectures were unnecessarily long and she wasted sm time waiting for ppl to answer the Q's she asked the class. Unfortunately it is a required class for comm but if you can take it with another professor, do that. Not very difficult but midterm and final (MC) are in person. Txtbook isn't necessary, j go to lecture.

Professor Gonzales is boring. Her lectures are extremely hard to pay attention to. I have taken multiple comm classes and she is the least engaging out of all the comm professors. She is nice but her lectures are lacking enthusiasm.

Class is definitely not easy, get ready to read and take good notes on her lectures to get a good grade on her exams. Her exams were tough however I really enjoyed her lectures and the concepts we learned in class. Her lectures were enjoyable and she seems like a great person overall.

Gonzales is an awesome teacher and cares about her students, but I think she grades WAY too hard. Her exams are difficult and despite the curve few people got As on them. Lectures are dense and sometimes confusing, but the class topic itself is also complicated. Class is two exams and one paper plus an extra small assignment.

The class has midterm and final and homework every week. You need to resubmit the homework to get full points. From my TA, I got to know my midterm and final were all graded by the professor, and she gave me A+ for these two exams. The textbook is the way to success!! Make sure to understand every concept clearly.

Took her in the Spring, she was super accomodating and I believe she did a good job trying to navigate the class online seeing as she had a short amount of time to restructure this course. Sometimes the lectures were a bit dry but it is a research methods course which I wasn't super crazy about taking. Overall she's awesome, especially upper div!!

Knows the material but is bad at getting the point across. Weekly homework that you dont get an A on. You must RESUBMIT to MAYBE get an extra point. Midterm/final was easy for me Bc I studied the book. paper grade depends on how strict your TA is. Overall, expectation were way too high. No reason I breezed through upper divs and struggled in this.