Overall, the class didn't require much work until later in the quarter. There are weekly documentaries to watch but they were all pretty interesting so it didn't feel like homework anyways. Besides the documentary responses there's one group debate project and 2 final papers that count towards your grade. The workload isn't much but instructions were often confusing or lacking so it made things harder. Fairly easy class but be sure to ask for clarifications!

I took this class fall quarter of freshman year. Dr. Juliano's class is about representation of gender and ethnic groups in media, something I am really not interested in. That's why I didn't really like the class. Before every class there is a quiz on homework, to which you have to arrive super early for. In fact, she starts quizzes before the class should actually start, which I think is kinda illegal but anyway. It wasn't my case, but if you have a class right before the beginning of this one you basically have less time for quizzes than your peers which is absolute nonsense. I feel like I didn't improve too much in my writing. Her prompts are somewhat unclear, especially the second one. She offers a lot of extra credit opportunities. She actually gives extra credit for the peer editing which is something I wasn't expecting. So swap your essays with your classmates during the quarter. The debates are cool if the teams respect the topic sentence. There's extra credit opportunities all over the place, so make sure you get it. I read she grades harsh but I don't think she was harsh with me. She goes through the slides too quickly and is unclear in letting you know what she wants

I love professor Linzi!! She gives so many extra credits and was really able to build a vibrant class where people are encouraged to share their own opinions and anecdotes and I was really able to know everyone in the class. She's also super understanding and forgiving while ensuring we learn as much as possible in the class. This was class split into two: Tuesday and Thursday class. This really helped! Making the class smaller was more effective. The conversations in class were all very relevant to the world today and I felt very connected digitally. We had to write 6 posts and responses on slack about the reading of the week but she gives you lots of space to just ramble about the topics you read about so it was easy to be graded high. We also have to lead a discussion once during the quarter which was super fun! You also get graded for participation which is easy. Just try to talk twice in class but just treat it like you're having a conversation with friends. And lastly, we had a final essay which was around 9-11 pages long. I had trouble choosing a topic but professor Linzi really helped me. I kinda did it last minute so it isn't as amazing as it could have been. Overall, I would LOVE to take a class with Professor Linzi again! Super interesting class to take if you want to do something in digital media in the future.

Professor Juliano's teaching and grading styles are very straightforward. While it is true that students don't often do as well as they hope in the beginning of the quarter, Linzi is very willing to help students and explain concepts until you improve; thus, students see great improvement in their writing/grade as the quarter goes on. The assignments that are not papers are easy and help your grade too. As long as you make sure to include what she describes in class, you are free to write and discuss almost any topic. I think Linzi's class has helped my writing the most out of all other English/writing intensive classes I've had at school and I would highly recommend her.

Overall it was a good experience, I had a lot of fun in the actual classes and the debate was pretty cool, but the one thing I will say is just the vague grading schemes at least for our quarter, and what seemed like a big difference between an A and a B. If I remember correctly a B would just be showing up to most of the classes and getting participation credit, and 5 check marks on the "warm up exercises" which are just written answers to questions on the reading/video or homework. Whereas for an A, you would have to have all the above and either a 45% increase from the drafts on both your essays or a 90%+ on both (final versions due week before finals). Professor Juliano probably low-balls everyone on the essay drafts because the average on the first one was like a 30%, but even then they make it very vague moving forwards on how exactly you can improve that 45% or get that 90%+ since their feedback on your drafts are also pretty short, vague, and harsh sometimes (so it makes you think whether you can really improve your essays that much lol). So like imo it's a pretty big jump between an A and a B. Also, at least for this quarter they said they don't really give out minus grades (A-, B-, C-) so that's also a little annoying if you were counting on that higher sub-score.

While I pointed out just my personal negatives on the course, I thought that Professor Juliano was a very understandable person if you just show enthusiasm in class and really just doing the bare minimum, because I know some people really just did not, and the professor would definitely appreciate your interest and participation in the class. So just be active in classes, do the work, and go to office hours maybe and you'll be fine.

Professor Juliano assigns everything at the beginning of the quarter and makes them due on week 10. That includes 2 essays and a debate. The essays were fine on topic but they grade fairly harsh. You also MUST do well on the warm up questions submitted every morning; if you do not get 5 checks, you will receive maximum a C which is stupid when it’s an 8am. If you procrastinate DO NOT TAKE this class.