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 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.

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!

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.

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.