Terrible professor, amazing TAs. Lectures are boring and useless since she just rambles and posts slides anyway. Do NOT email her—she won't help. The TAs are incredible and the only reason I understood anything. The group project is easy, so as long as your group isn't useless, you'll be fine. Take this class for the TAs, not for her.

I took Comm 88 with Houston and I didn't like her then, but taking this class and interacting with her more. Hanged my opinions. In a smaller setting, she seems to be much more attentive and engaging with her students, taking time to talk to them after class and getting to know them. I would definitely take another class with her in a small setting

Professor Houston is my favorite professor at UCSB. She is so caring and truly wants her students to succeed. I cannot recommend this class enough- I have taken her back-to-back quarters and her class never disappoints!

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.

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.