Mastros class was easy but also very interesting. Your grade is just based on 3 tests that pretty much just cover what she talked about in lecture. Read over your notes a few times and youll be fine. She posts lecture outlines online before class, so you just have to fill in the blanks. I would highly recommend taking her if you get the chance.

shes awesome! take her! There is only three classes. Just study the notes, no need to do the reading - just based on lecture!!

Amazing professor! I also took COMM 113 with Mastro. Straight-Forward class and lectures are easy to outline. She also posts the notes on GauchoSpace so you can follow along and fill in the blanks. There are 3 exams, which are fairly easy if you reread your notes multiple times. Questions are straight off lectures. The material is very interesting!

Lectures are very straightforward and easy to outline. The material is interesting, there is just a lot of it so it's important to take good notes and look over them often. Tests are super fair and taken directly from the notes and readings. Just read your notes a bunch of times before each of the 3 tests and you'll do great. Fast grader.

Dr. Mastro is the most professional & respectful professor I have experienced at UCSB. I have taken all classes she has taught & I remember everything she he lectured on. She engages the students. It is not a cake-walk, but the work is worth it. She is fair and unbiased, and actually does research on what she lectures on. The best Comm professor!

Take this class! Extremely interesting material, all relevant. No textbook, readings through GauchoSpace. While she is incredibly knowledgeable and very well spoken, she doesn't believe in tricky tests/jargon - her material is straight forward (and easy). She's very friendly, loved her and hope to take her again!