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Love this man! The lectures seriously make you want to be a journalist (I kept calling this class ethics of journalism because it was easier and I wasn’t wrong). You don’t need the textbook, but it is nice to have if you don’t quite understand a topic he taught during lecture. Ask him questions! Go to his office hours! I would definitely take another class taught by him. Also, the exams are short answer/3 short paragraph for each question but don’t let that scare you. He is such a great professor and the material is straight forward, all you’ll need to do is go through notes once or twice and you’ll do fine!

Professor Newton is a knowledgeable and charismatic professor who knows how to teach. He presents course material in a way that is interesting and causes students to ask questions and stay engaged. His expectations for the class are excellent and the course work is ideal for an upper division class. I would take another class by Professor Newton!

Amazing class. Professor Newton is an absolute gem. Easily one of the best professors at UCLA. His class is structured fairly meaning if you pay attention and take detailed notes you are guaranteed to ace the midterm and final. Professor Newton is polite, caring, and helpful. He is always there to help and is very respectful of opposing views and tries to present balanced perspectives on topics. Overall, take this class with Newton and you will not regret it. My only sadness is that this class is not the entire year! Also, the textbook is pointless! Save your money!

I definitely recommend taking this class if you can! Lectures can seem a bit intimidating just because there are no slides, but you don't have to memorize everything that he says (like you would in COMM 10..). Trust me, if you put in the work to study, this class is a very manageable A. I'm selling the textbook, Groping for Ethics in Journalism by Ron F. Smith, for $13. Price may be negotiable. Text me at ********** if interested!

This class was AMAZING, and I highly recommend it to anyone! Professor Newton is so knowledgable, and he really makes an effort to involve the entire class rather than just lecture for an hour and a half. During the entire class time period, I was fully engaged just solely because of his passion and experience with the material. The readings weren't too difficult, and the exams just require you to bring up examples he discussed during lecture so they were never too bad. As long as you analyze well enough, you'll do fine. He also led the LA Times case on the OJ Simpson case if that isn't enough to convince anyone to take this class?! Literally, one of the most applicable and interesting courses I've taken at UCLA.

Seriously one of the best Comm upper divs I've taken at UCLA. Newton is a great professor, who just genuinely wants people to learn the material without doing lots of unnecessary busywork. All you have to do is go to lecture, pay attention, and take good notes and you will get an A.
Breakdown of the class is out of 100 points total. 45 for the midterm, 45 for the final, and 10 for participation (he says first day of class all you have to do to get the full 10 points is just show up to class). Midterm and final are the same format: all writing, 8 options, choose 5. Just regurgitate your notes onto the final with an example/case study from the class and you are guaranteed an A on each. He has a textbook for the class, but you don't need it. Never opened it once during the quarter.
Overall great class, and Newton is a super nice guy in general.

I absolutely love this class and especially Newton. I never thought I would be that interested in the material since I don't want to go into journalism, but he makes every lecture very interesting and engaging. So would recommend this class. It's not difficult and the exams (only a midterm and final for 45% each) are relatively easy if you go to lecture and pay attention. He's amazing. Loved it and don't even know what my grade is yet!!

This was one of the first classes I took at UCLA as a transfer student. Coming from a community college, I wasn't sure how I'd respond to a purely lectured class with no slides and I LOVED it. The textbook isn't necessary, but I recommend it if it's a topic that interests you. Professor Newton covers everything you have to know for your midterm and final. There won't be any questions where you ask "when did we cover this!?"

The midterm and final are similar. Both require bluebooks and you are given 8 questions. Of those 8 questions, you must answer 5. Each question needs to be about 1-1 1/2 pages long.

If you do the readings outside of the texbook, pay attention to the lecture, and are an okay writer, you should be able to get a good grade.

This class was my first upper div comm class and I feel like it is a good class to take if you're barely starting upper divs! The work load is extremely light (midterm, final, participation) and the lectures are well organized so it is pretty clear what could be potentially on the exams. However, the class is not podcasted and there are no slides so you have to go to class and pay attention otherwise it will be more difficult!! It is very easy though if you go to class and listen/take notes.
My advice for studying would be to remember the main points from the lecture and at least one example for each (but the more the better)!
The exams are free response, he gives you around 8 and i think you choose like 5 to answer, so there's bound to be questions you can answer confidently!
I didn't use the course reader and got an A in the class.