Lectures very informative and interesting.

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!

Prof. Merolla assisted Prof. Lane W21. Grading included Intro Video (5%), Weekly Assignments (40%), Paper Outline (10%), Research Paper (40%) and Research Participation (5%). Lectures + reading material was interesting and easy to understand. I recommend Li Qi as a TA.

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.

To be honest, his lectures are very well-organized and thorough so I actually enjoyed going to lectures because I felt like I was actually learning something. However, to be honest I also had a professor crush on him so I WANTED to go to class HAHA. Overall, interesting class and manageable if you go to lectures and keep up with the readings.

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.

Her lecture is not really organized, and her language is sometimes unclear, which somewhat affects the quality of her class. The exams are fair. The research paper depends on TA.

Comm 88 is a difficult class, and not the most interesting. I definitely wouldn't take this class if you aren't a comm major. Professor Gonzales is pretty much exactly what I expected. She knows what she's talking about but she's pretty serious and a tough grader. For the exams you have to create your own experiment and it's pretty hard.

Best professor, did research with him and I remember in Comm 89, he was so thorough with every theory, explained everything in a way that didn't bore you but also helped you understand the material (probably why I wanted to join his research). Such a gem professor, take his classes if you actually want to understand the material. Taking his comm111

didnt take class, looking to see if shes a good teacher

I had her during the Spring quarter of 2020 and I thought she was fine. She switched her midterm and final to be short answer and it took a long time to get the feedback. Weekly assignments for section but were relatively easy. She allowed the final to be optional which was great. She tried to make the lectures easy (asynchronously) and relatable.

Due to COVID-19, the format for exams changed from MC to short answers. The first exam was written poorly and unclear- something she acknowledged. The other two exams had clearer objectives, thankfully. The textbook saves you in this class, I relied on it way more than the lectures.

Professor Gonzalez seems to be really cool and easy going at first. Just know for a fact if you take any class with her you have to really think outside the box even for a pre requisite class. Since the virus has been going on I thought she would be a little bit easier, not even close. I promise she is very difficult.

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

Professor Gonzales is a great professor in the means of getting major points across and is just overall good at teaching. However, she teaches with her own political standings. There are a few chapters in the textbook that she teaches based on her views completely. If you don't want to hear somebody go off on tangents about their views keep looking

Andy is the best professor I've ever had. I took this with him as my second attempt at the course after force failing with Dunbar (avoid). But even though I had learned all the material already I still went because he made it so interesting.

Andy is one of the best professors I've had at UCSB. Cares about students, interesting and engaging lectures. Exams are extremely lecture-heavy. Do readings if you want an A, but not mandatory. Start paper a week before it's due. Midterm and Final exams are straightforward and easy to understand, start studying 1-2 weeks beforehand.

Andy has been my favorite professor Ive had at UCSB. The first prof Ive seen GENUINELY care about his students. Grades very fairly and the TAs were super helpful. This man is a homie

He is such an amazing human and professor. You can really care how much he cares about your success. He makes an 8am enjoyable and I genuinely enjoyed each of his lectures--so go to class because he gets sad when no one is there. The material is not very complex so if you read and go to lecture you will do great.

super interesting content and lectures. I loved this class. merolla made it as easy as possible as a pre comm class. 2 exams and 1 paper and weekly write ups. not much workload at all and concepts are easy to grasp. didn't get an A only bc my paper was graded by a strict TA! it's easy to do good on exams that are not tricky at all.

Merolla has been a FANTASTIC professor for Comm 89. By far the best professor I've had in my two years at UCSB. He makes lectures engaging and interesting, truly cares about his students, and designs the course to be challenging yet very do-able. His tests are fair and if you keep up with the pace of the class, you'll do just fine.

Hes only easy in the precomm courses. For 121, yes he knows his stuff but we only had 12 questions on midterm and 10 on final. All short answer. He gives SO much info to remember that come test day you blank out. Remember the important stuff and you wont find it on the test. 3 1/2-3 pg response papers. Hes nice as can be but unfair with tests!