I took this class during winter quarter which incorporate both online and in person. The online part was harder with this professor, but when the class went back to in person it was a great class. There was a paper and a final in this class along with 5 speeches. The Professor gave great feedback for the speeches and made it a comfortable environment for speeches. This comm 1 seems to be more work than this class with other Professors though.

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.