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

Feramisco is a wonderful professor, and the workload is light. If you do the assignments, you're basically guaranteed a good grade. Show up to class and you'll do fine. Easiest A I've ever earned.

Super easy A, going to lecture isn’t required and all test questions are found in the textbook. Both the midterm and the final were pretty much exactly the same as the study guides she posts on CCLE. As long as you get a good group for the final project (16 page paper, but double spaced and I’m groups of 5 so it’s super easy) this class is a breeze.

Super easy A, going to lecture isn’t required and all test questions are found in the textbook. Both the midterm and the final were pretty much exactly the same as the study guides she posts on CCLE. As long as you get a good group for the final project (16 page paper, but double spaced and in groups of 5 so it’s super easy) this class is a breeze

Comm 1 with Professor Feramisco was okay overall. The class is comprised of four speeches, a debate, and one paper. The workload is pretty light and there is no discussion. You basically have to give a speech every other week, and sometimes there's an outline due before the speech. The speech topics are pretty interesting; the first speech is you introducing yourself to the class, the second is an informative speech, then a persuasive speech, and the final is a ceremonial speech. The paper is very easy, it's just a speech analysis of a TedTalk.

Participation is very important to Professor Feramisco. Don't take this class if you don't plan on showing up. You lose points every time you miss a class, arrive late, or leave early. I noticed that the people who seemed to struggle most in the class were those with attendance issues.

Another thing: DON'T BUY THE TEXTBOOK. It should not be a required text. I rented it and never opened it once. There are no reading quizzes, and she covers the exact same material in class on her powerpoint slides. I don't think anyone in the class ever used the book. Seriously, do not waste your money.

Overall, this class was fine. I think some of my peers enjoyed it more than me. I didn't love the fact that the lectures were two hours a week, and during the weeks where we didn't have speech presentations, we were listening to Professor Feramisco's lectures on what makes a good speech, which was often unhelpful and could sometimes be boring, even though she tries to keep it interesting using class participation. The only good thing about the class is that since its pretty small (around 30 people) you do become friends with the people in the class and it's interesting to hear about peoples lives through the speeches they give. Professor Feramisco is probably as good of a professor as any to take Comm 1 with. Sometimes I felt like she graded me very subjectively and unfairly marked me down on some small things, but overall, if you show up and do the work, its an easy A.

FERAMISCO IS THE BEST!!
If you're interested in the marketing & advertising industry, be sure to take this course before your time here is over!
This was the first class I took here at UCLA where I felt I learned something actually applicable to what I wanted to do.
Feramisco's lectures are clear, engaging, and the class overall is pretty straightforward.
Understand that:
1. First hw assignment: She grades tough, so make sure you get at least a B on that one otherwise your grade will tank from that (10%)
2. Group project: Pick reliable people who can meet in person when there's an assignment coming up. Check each other and be detail-oriented; the final project is 40%!
3. Midterms and finals: Easy, straight from the study guide and textbook. Free PDF of textbook online, don't both buying.
4. Other hws: be detail-oriented, and for the press release and creative brief, better write a little more to hit every point than forget points.
Also, definitely hit her up for advice for internships and overall marketing pointers. She also brings in guest speakers, which is really awesome :)

This class is fine. Group project will determine 400 of the 1000 total points, so pick people that are reliable.
Her homework assignments are not described thoroughly... we'll make parts of a marketing project without any examples, templates, or explanation of what she expects. She'll mention what the assignment is, why it's used, but in terms of actual formatting and information, it can be full of guess work. There's a point scale of 0-100 for each assignment, and while it'll be like "you'll get 0-10 for formatting", the actual information within each assignment can be supremely unclear, this coming from someone who went to every single class and office hours.
She grades harder than expected. Got docked tons of points for my group's final project (which ended up being 26 pages) because our charts were not big enough and other minimal errors. That caused my grade to drop to an A-, despite getting 100% on both the midterm and final.
Midterm and final basically match the study guides, so know them well, to get the study guide answers, you will need the text book.

Overall, the class is fine, but be VERY precise, and do not mess up a thing with the group project.

This class is an easy A. Relevant and fun. Feramisco is a really engaging, nice, and funny professor. She knows what she is talking about and is the epitome of a good communicator. She's great!

Comm 148 with Feramisco is definitely a class I would recommend to Communication majors. Not only is the subject of the class extremely important for anyone who wants to go into the marketing or advertising industry, the group project of the class also gives you the opportunity to gain hands on experience planning a marketing campaign. The tests were fairly straightforward, each question comes from the study guide she gives beforehand and each answer is found in the textbook.