Dr. Johnson is honestly one of my favorite teachers ever. I'm so surprised to read the review that she uses lectures to "brag" about her research. Instead, I see her as incredibly friendly, professional, and engaging. Exactly how I want to lecture when I graduate grad school. Btw she's smart AND pretty too! Which is a doubly wammy ( I think we got some jealousy on our hands).
Anyways, I'm graduating this quarter (and haven't YET finished the class) but I'm guessing that I'll get an A. The class is fair, just the right amount of difficulty, and honestly, Dr. Johnson is great to talk to outside of class. Been going to her office hours all the time and she's incredibly open.
There's 3 Tests, where one can be dropped. Also, 3 assignments that I think help you to be prepared for the real world. Dr. Johnson wants her students to learn and do well and I think it's exemplified through her teaching style and demeanor. If you try and do your best, you will do well.
Very glad to have met her in my last quarter of undergrad!

This is an instructor who pretends to teach, but really just uses her class as an opportunity to humble-brag about her research. Not engaging. Rude to students who want extra help outside of class. Only responds to student emails once per week. It is like a burden to be in her class.

I would no recommend this professor unless you are in dire dire straits and would otherwise have to suffer from Suman/Bryant (the two worst in the dept)

Very interesting class and the professor is always willing to provide alternative explanations to her slides if the class doesn't get it. She is always available during office hours and grades very fair. Would take again!
The textbook can be pricey but you NEED it for the class. It is easy to understand and appears on about 40% of the test.

Great Professor! Easily one of the most interesting classes I have taken at UCLA. There is quite a bit of reading but it is interesting. Plus there is no final other than an optional 3rd midterm if you did not do well on previous midterms. Great class! I got an A

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This class is extremely interesting and awesome. It is an upper division class and this is UCLA so of course you should expect to be somewhat challenged in this course. This class is no walk in the park but the material is incredibly interesting which makes this course very enjoyable and fun to take. The class is not that difficult if you keep up with the readings. Her powerpoints and lectures are really good and well done.

Please ignore the moron who posted below and said that Professor Johnson is stereotypical about gender roles and stereotypes, this person clearly is not very competent. All of the material that Professor Johnson teaches IS BASED ON RESEARCH. She is not conveying her personal opinions, only what research has found.

Furthermore, Professor Johnson is a fair grader and an amazing professor. If you are interested in pursuing research and graduate school TAKE THIS CLASS. Even if you're not, the material in this course is super interesting and really cool. I highly recommend this course and ANY course that Professor Johnson teaches. She is AWESOME!

Don't listen to the reviewers below. The reality is that this class is extremely interesting. It is an upper division class and this is UCLA so of course you should expect to be somewhat challenged in this course. This class is no walk in the park but the material is incredibly interesting which makes this course really interesting.

Please ignore the moron who posted below and said that Professor Johnson is stereotypical about gender roles and stereotypes, this person clearly is not very competent. All of the material that Professor Johnson teaches IS BASED ON RESEARCH. She is not conveying her personal opinions, only what research has found.

Furthermore, Professor Johnson is a fair grader and an amazing professor. If you are interested in pursuing research and graduate school TAKE THIS CLASS. Even if you're not, the material in this course is super interesting and really cool. I highly recommend this course and ANY course that Professor Johnson teaches. She is AWESOME!

This was my first upper div class for my major, communication studies. I was freshmen and I was really really freaking out when I saw the amount of readings and their levels of difficulty. However, the class itself is really interesting! Also, she is really helpful if you go to her office hour. She is very organized, so I picked up the materials easily. There are three tests and you get to drop one. There is no multiple choice question. They are hard. But,, there is a curve!! Most people got at least B- . I would highly recommend to take this class. Loved it!

Don't listen to the posts recommending this class!!! You WILL regret it!!! Yes, the material is not difficult at all (which is what makes this class so frustrating) however, there is SO MUCH reading and memorizing you will spend COUNTLESS hours studying for the exams!!! The outside reading material is barely covered in class so you have to read EVERYTHING to get a good grade. Additionally, the exams are extremely ambiguous and poorly written!!! They are all short answer and essay and it is difficult to know what she is looking for in most of the questions. Prof. Johnson tries to make it so much harder than the class really should be. I ended up with a B but I had to spend so much time studying for this class, my other grades/classes suffered. Also, when the class began it was completely full, including the waiting list. By the end of the second midterm (which there are three of) almost 15% of the class had dropped! If you do decide to take this class and you are not a communications major I would recommend taking it for a pass/fail grade otherwise, avoid it at all costs!!

This class seems very difficult but in reality isn't. The class is basically concerned with all sorts of scientific studies pertaining to what our bodies/motion convey to others (both lectures and readings). You will learn about each study - hypothesis, method and findings - and be tested on them.

You actually have to do the readings for this class because they will be covered on the exam. While there seems to be a lot of material, and the exams seem to be difficult, she curves very VERY generously.

I thought some of the studies that we covered in class were pretty interesting. Others were okay. She also posts her powerpoints online, which is helpful. There are three exams; you get to drop the lowest one. There is also a paper in which you summarize a scientific study.