I liked this class but beware of the final! The material was pretty interesting although sometimes confusing at times. Jones is very good at explaining things and very open to helping students. He would often stay very late to answer questions. Everything you need to know, he will tell you, and the TA's provide a study guide. This class is heavily based on memorization and understanding so the readings and lectures are a must do to do well. There is 1 midterm, 1 research paper, and the final. For the midterm, you can explain your answer to your TA to try and get some points back which bumped my exam grade up a letter grade. The biggest issue with this class was the final!! That exam was the most stressful exam I have ever taken in my life, not because it was hard but because it was too long for the time frame. The exam was week 10 so we took it during class but the exam should have been a standard 3 hour final. The questions on the exams are all written and some are a page long while others paragraphs or a few sentences. The first 3 questions took half the exam time alone and there were about 10-15 written questions. I found myself knowing the answers but struggling to write what I wanted to say because of how little time we had. The midterm wasn't curved but the final was and somehow I got a 97% because I studied for 2 weeks which bumped my grade from a B to an A. Overall, I enjoyed this class but the final exam needs to be fixed.

This class was interesting, however it is very similar to Comm 10. If you were good at memorizing "lists" of information to know on Comm 10 exams, you will be just fine because that is almost exactly how Comm 100 exams are structured. This class requires a lot of memorization of facts and definitions. However, I really enjoyed Professor Jone's attitude towards helping students.

Professor Jones is really nice and a great teacher, he talks really fast and the class covers a lot of content, so the tests are kind of hard. I feel like they were fairly graded though, especially for a required major class. Discussions are optional. Lots of reading.