He is the best professor to teach this class and was super helpful and accommodating to all students. His lectures are posted and there are no live Zoom sessions but his style is very engaging. The concepts can be difficult, but he breaks them down well and gives many examples so students can understand them clearly. The class had weekly discussion posts, weekly response papers (400 words) and 2 reflection papers (5 pages). He made some of them optional after seeing many students struggle with their workload and was always willing to go the extra mile. Great professor and highly recommend him if you need Comm 100.

Professor Jones has been one of my favorite professors at UCLA. He is one of the sweetest guys ever and does a great job at explaining the content, especially when it got difficult or abstract. I know he is a good professor because he took content I would not typically care about and make it so interesting and easy to understand. I am so sad that he does not teach any other classes at UCLA. I always loved going to his office hours, and he was great at communicating with students. I never felt scared or hesitant to come to him for help, and always left office hours feeling confident with my assignments. I felt that he truly cared about us and our experience in his class even though it was virtual. He really let his amazing personality shine through the course, and I can only imagine how much more amazing he is of a teacher in person. I hope UCLA gives him more oppurtunities to teach because he is truly a gem and breath of fresh air to our communications department. (Plus he has two adorable pit bulls that he talks about all the time and sent us reddit memes in the class group chat :))

I loved Professor Jones! If it weren't for him I probably would not have liked this class as much. I didn't care for the material (it's very science based and tricky to understand concepts at times), but he made it as engaging, interesting, and easy to follow as he could. He is extremely accessible and was around to answer questions or concerns in a very timely manner since he joined our class GroupMe. I thought this was weird at first, but it DEFINITELY paid off considering how helpful and accommodating he was. The structure of the class goes like this: weekly discussion posts, weekly response papers (about 1 page), and 2 reflection papers (around 4 pages). I am most impressed with how caring he is. He realized that we were all going through a hard time and cut down the work load a lot. He made two of the response papers optional and even made the second reflection paper (due on finals week) optional as well. The TAs do tend to grade a little on the harsher side, but most of your grade is based on the discussions- which are mostly a guaranteed 100% every time. I finished with an A+ and spent half of the quarter on vacation or with COVID doing the absolute bare minimum... Overall, Gabe is such a genuine and caring guy and you should definitely take this class with him if you have the opportunity. I really appreciated how he was so gracious and lenient about the assignments considering the pandemic. He's a gem!

Professor Jones was one of the best professors I have had. First, I found lecture content and our readings to be very engaging and enlightening. If you are interested at all in media and communication, you will do the readings rather happily. Sometimes content is challenging, but Jones does a great job of clearing things up in lecture. I found his lecture slides to work well, and I typically attended his office hours for guidance on our papers, which really helped. Some may say that papers were graded harshly, but that's not true at all. I got A's on all of my papers, what the TA's are really looking for is creativity and reflection. They don't want you to repeat verbatim what was said in lecture or in the readings, but to be creative. Being creative in the essays really pays off. In addition to our papers, we also had discussion forum posts which really boost grades, it's mostly graded on completion. Jones was extremely generous and flexible, and he really cared about student well being. He went out of his way to help us and was very thoughtful and considerate with our wellness during the pandemic. Definitely take this class.

Professor Jones recorded and posted all lectures. He was also super accessible (joined our class groupme) and flexible (made several essays, including the final essay, optional). This class is a lot of work, with one discussion post, two discussion responses, and one short essay due per week. But if you're a Comm major and have to take Comm100, I'd recommend Jones for sure. The biggest part of your grade is the discussion board so as long as you post on time it's not hard to get a good grade.

Gabe was a God sent! This class was a bit tricky but it might've been just me because I never went to office hours with the TA haha which maybe I should have went to. But professor Gabe is literally one of the most relatable, patient, and understanding professors I've had at UCLA! As for the material, it wasn't really my cup of tea but professor Gabe was so attentive and engaging on our GroupMe (which I have never seen a teacher be on a student's GroupMe!) that it makes up for the class. So here I am, writing a review and hyping him up!

Gabe is the sweetest and most understanding professor ever! He completely understands the content is difficult/heavy but he provided opportunities throughout the quarter to help with clarity and lighten our workload (making our second big paper optional). Our class created a GroupMe that he was a member and he was always extremely active and did a great job of answering clarifying questions at all hours of the day. The content can definitely get confusing and abstract, but as a Comm major who needed to take this class, he is 100% the best person to take it with. NOTE: One crucial determiner to this class was the TA. Andrew Smith graded all of the papers extremely harshly and had very high expectations (wanting the class to be graded as if they were graduate students). I had Kristine who was so sweet and generous with grading, making my experience much more positive than a lot of my class so keep that in mind. The professor did hear the complaints and offered an opportunity for submitted extra assignments for those struggling to help boost their grades!

Not a comm major. I thought this class is not science but pseudo science.

He goes by Gabe!
Grades:
This class was not what I expected, but not in a negative way. You're ONLY graded on three things: 10% weekly Discussion Posts, 45% midterm exam, and 45% final exam. The midterm exam was brutal on a lot of us. He said that he expected an 87% average, much like his previous years. However, I don't think he took into account that we were taking the exam in-person and it was a much more limited time, and so the class average was actually around 76% or something. However, he curved it SOOO good. The midterm was much harder since you had to do like a full essay for 8 questions within 75 minutes and the instructions were unclear, random, and a bit quirky. As long as you write what you know, you'll be good though. Remember to relate your answer back to the question. If he does in-person exams, memorize the content. The final was a take-home exam, he helped us a ton on it. You don't need to memorize anything or have a deep understanding for take-homes. Just connect it back to the readings (look at the abstracts, don't [re]read everything). It was much easier than the midterm, but far more time consuming. Study and show your knowledge and you'll be fine. I got an A for both, but again I only really studied for the midterm.

Professor:
Great professor, super funny, cute dogs. Hes super helpful and you can tell he cares about his students. He answered so many questions about the final and with speed. Lectures are super engaging, but extremely, extremely dense. Constantly felt like information over load (you could say it exceeded my channel capacity.. you'll understand later). On top of that, he talks quite fast. My brain could not handle it some times so thats why it's a good idea to look at the slides after class and record the lectures (he allows this). Despite this, I've never learned so much in a COMM class. Genuinely very interesting, just wish my brain worked faster. He covers so many topics like AI, technical communication, art, etc.

Tips:
Everyone says this class was really hard this quarter, and it's true. I told myself this was worse than Suman so many times, but it really isn't. Try your best on the exams, study, and it'll be good. Go to office hours, especially before the final/midterm. Don't feel overwhelmed by the technical lingo, you'll get through it.

Also - Gabe literally didn't bash Trump. Not sure what that other reviewer is talking about. But in the last few weeks of the course, Gabe talks about political communication. He goes through this idea that people who are so devoted to the left/right see anything neutral as a direct threat to them. Looks like it's true.

I'm really liking this class so far! The material itself can be difficult to grasp but it's so interesting and really changes how you view the world. There's also barely any work: all you need to do is post 3 weekly discussion posts (10% of your grade), take the midterm (45% of your grade) and then take the final (45% of your grade). A lot of people were complaining about the midterm which was tedious and definitely fast-paced, but he ended up curving it a ton. Gabe is an incredibly engaging lecturer and I definitely recommend taking this comm req with him over anyone else