This is my first upper div for COMM 100 and I absolutely loved it! Mainly due to the professor as he was so sarcastic and truly engaging to learn from. The summer course followed similar guidelines as the previous reviews except there was no 4 page review paper. Instead it went like weekly discussions posts and responses, weekly essay prompts, and a final paper. Very manageable - if you do not receive an A from this prof/course, I would be surprised. Although a couple of the reviews for this course say that the science behind the theories are difficult to understand but I found it relatively simple - perhaps it is Prof Jones who makes it this way, but don't be afraid of this course. Personally, it was one of my favorite under the COMM department! A lot of the material is can be applicable to real life which should assist in your understanding.

All in all, great prof, great course.

My review of this class has nothing to do with the professor, but with the material. It wasn't what I expected. And, he used really great methods making us actually use the theories and come up with our own hypotheses and ways to test the theories, and much of it was a bit abstract and hard to apply to a real life situation. He gave a lot of great examples in the lecture. His lectures were very organized and great slides. This was a summer course, so the lectures were 2 hours and 5 minutes twice a week, and he used 2 hours and 5 minutes and didn't stop a minute early, and took no breaks. So, that was tough as the material was deep and complex and it was tough to still be soaking anything in during the second half. So, I spent a lot of time going back and having to spend even more time re-listening to lectures so that I understood the material. But, he is a great instructor, it's just the material was hard for me to understand.

Professor Jones was really understanding this quarter & made himself available at all times for questions. Grades were made up of weekly discussion posts/replies, weekly response papers, and the final. The final was take-home and we had ~2 days to finish it (but it did not take the whole time). Grading was very fair and the expectations/rubrics for assignments were made very clear. Professor Jones gave the option of recorded lectures or attending in person. Discussion section is optional (not mandatory or part of the grade) but it was very helpful. I had Theo as my TA and he was the best!!

I took Professor Jones’ Communication Science course in Winter 2021 when it was online. The course grade consisted of 9 weekly discussion boards, 5 response papers, and 2 reflection papers. Toward the end of the class, he decided to make some of these assignments optional to accommodate for the difficult circumstances, which many students appreciated. His lecturers were asynchronous, and Professor Jones did an excellent job in explaining and breaking down each topic. The content of the course was very interesting, and as a first-year transfer student and Communication Major who is interested in research, I highly recommend taking this class in winter if you are interested in research or gaining a broad overview of communication studies. My favorite topics were the philosophy of science and models of communication while the most difficult for me was social networks. My TA, Kelsey Kim, was extraordinary, cheerful, and very clear with what we needed to write for our papers. Discussion sections with her were really helpful in guiding us on how we should write our papers, and she was a very fair grader. I was very fortunate to have her because the TA can very much make or break your experience in this class. Overall, this was a solid class with Professor Jones, Kelsey, and the topics we learned about.

Professor Jones has been very open to feedback, criticism, answering questions, etc. with students the entire quarter. A huge issue with this class was that the TAs had different expectations and ideas with the professor himself. Sometimes, the topics that the professor suggested may not be accepted by the TA (who does the grading). My TA had expected us to have graduate level writing *ridiculous* and only left feedback for the first paper (had to go to office hours for feedback which didn't work for me who is in another time zone).