Genuinely the worst professor I have ever had and the most useless class. By the end of the quarter no one even showed up because her lectures were repetitive, boring, and taken straight out of the textbook. She is rude and condescending and her grading makes absolutely no sense. It is really obvious she does not care about her students or about them learning anything. SHe constantly talks about her boring personal life and how great she was at marketing. Those who can't do, teach. If you want to waste your time and still not get a good grade, take this class. Also if you have a bad group for the project, you are screwed completely and even at an 89.5 she won't round up the grade.

She is so nice! The trick is to memorize your speeches so she doesn't dock you for losing track of the audience or looking at your notes too much. Don't start your speeches with "um" or "so" and participate in class. She spends a lot of time showing us videos of other speeches. There are three main speeches, one midterm debate, and one final ceremonial speech where you present and accept and award. She strictly follows her rubric and gives you the rubric beforehand. So it's really easy to tailor everything to the rubric. I learned a lot from this class, and this class is super useful and super fun. I know other professors just make you listen to them, but in this class, you have impromptu speeches with classmates so it's very engaging and interactive

This class is really fun and easy. Professor Feramisco gives interesting, engaging, and interactive lectures. The class environment is fun and comfortable, and your public speaking and communicating skills are improved without you even noticing. Highly recommend this class.

I took this class as a pre-req for the COMM major and absolutely loved it! It was the teacher's first quarter teaching at UCLA so I think that made it easier than most COMM 1 classes. Going into this class I was an okay public speaker and I finished this class extremely confident in my speaking abilities. The homework was reading from a textbook, but a lot of people got by just fine in the class without ever buying the textbook because we went over slideshows of the reading in class. There was no written tests. We were only graded on 4 different speeches and out final was a fake awards ceremony that was very fun. I would highly recommend taking this class wether you are thinking about being a comm major or not.

I took this class during Fall 2015. Professor Feramisco was incredibly understanding of my mistakes early on and helped me to improve them for the later speeches. She was a great teacher and I hope that I get to take another one of her classes.

This class is Integrated Marketing Communications.

There's a decent amount of work on a huge group project with this class, but it's quite fun, and it didn't really feel like work in the end (at least with my group). You have to meet up with group members often (for real, no procrastination) and there are three smaller assignments due before the big final project. She (or the TA graders, idk) will grade harder than expected, but if you make sure you follow instructions to a tee, you're good.

She also gives great study guides for her midterm and final. You only need the book to complete it and she tests directly from it, verbatim.

Feramisco's IMC class is super straightforward. Her lectures are super interesting and you learn a lot about the advertising industry. She has two exams: midterm and final. They are both multiple choice and she posts the study guides for each online. You NEED the textbook for this class. All of her study guide material translates to MC questions on the test, and you can find every answer in the book. You WILL have to study, but as long as you know all the answers to the study guide, that's it. There's not really any trick questions. Her main focus is giving you experience putting together material, in the form of homework and the final group project, that will be applicable if you go into most Comm based careers. She gives great feedback on your assignments and is always willing to meet for office hours. Pick your group partners early and because most of the homework will correspond with the final project, it's not a hard project. There's also a presentation component at the end, so make sure you practice your public speaking skills. All in all, I'm writing this review because I loved everything about this class. Feramisco illustrates the course material with great popular examples of ad campaigns and she's honestly a joy to learn from. This is a class that effort translates to a good grade, which is hard to come by. It's not a hard class as long as you put the effort in to do all of the assignments and study. I wish she would teach more classes because I would love to sign up to take more with her.

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This class is really fun and it's not a lot of workload. The only hard part about it is that you have to deliver a speech every other week. For every speech you need a TAF and an outline. The stuff you learn in the lecture isn't very helpful for when you give your speech. Also, it feels like it will be an easy A class but her grading on the speeches is actually a little harsh.

Really great class to improve your public speaking skills. Go to the professor's office hours and ask what you can improve on.