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Linda Schoen - Communication Studies - Santa Rosa Junior College - Media 4 Instructor: Very unclear with grading and not forgiving to any extenuating circumstances whatsoever. Control freak! emails and sends reminders to students about just-created assignments or assignments due in 8+ hours. Has a negative attitude with students who are trying to clarify information. If theres a better option for the class, I would take that class. Even though I got an A in this course, I strongly don't recommend this instructor. The class assessments are very weird. For example we had an assignment to do a presentation about SRJC 100 anniversary, with the fact that the assignment have nothing to do with the course. She asked us to take photos on campus in an online class. This is a very hard course. Lots of homework. Don't procrastinate. She has all the homework locked so you cant access the next step until you complete the first one. I found the content of the class to be extremely boring. Make sure you site all your sources properly she is quick to call plagiarism even if you didn't do it on purpose. I was thoroughly disappointed! Class is not structured well! Very heavy reading! The class covers 2-3 chapters each week, exams are poorly put together (a mix of multiple choice, short answer, essay questions) and although I studied, it didn't matter. I finished with an A, but I do not recommend this instructor. Tests are difficult but make sure you have the text book. Make sure to read over your grades test because some answers are marked wrong due to spelling errors by the professor or if you capitalize a word when the answer key is lower case. Wouldn't take her class again but needed to for a requirement. Good luck Linda has a chip on her shoulder, and an attitude she takes with every student. She doesn't respond to messages. She can't be bothered to answer any questions you might have about the course. I would take any course but this one. Don't walk run from this class and her. Online summer class, so 2-4 chapters per week, about 70-125 pages each. "online lectures" do not incorporate digital media- just pdf's to download. It was disappointing that a mass media class did not use more then 1-2 types of mediums. I didn't always feel the grading was objective. Very dependent on text book... drill and kill. I would never recommend Linda's class. I asked her to check to see if she received my assignment ok. And it was like pulling teeth she won't do it. She's not a good teacher at all. Don't take this class. Teacher interaction is non existent. She is unorganized - will post only part of an assignment and doesn't post the other part (necessary to do the work) until a few days before it's due, but then won't' extend the due date. She also assigned an enormous amount of assignments, reading, and quizzes, to the point that she can't keep up with grading 'online lectures' are pdf'd notes that she posts. There really is no teacher interaction, unless you email her. Responses are limited. She assigned so much work that she can't keep up with grading it timely. Test questions are extremely difficult to understand and answer. Term 'clues' are limited and extremely vague and ambiguous. This teacher is SNARKY. The first time I asked her for clarification (this was an online class), I had to read through two entire paragraphs of criticism and nagging before she even addressed my question. Future questions I asked, and questions I saw by others on the forum, were met with a similar reaction by her. She has an...

The campus is beautiful. The layout is helpful if you need to get exercise between classes, as I did after having a baby. All three of my children attended The Children's Development Center, as I attended classes. The support services are amazing on campus, if you need that extra helping support, as I did, once buckling down and becoming a reentry student, when I was 35 years of age! I had tried going to college after high school, and I was not ready or willing to put in the needed energy and time necessary for a quality education. I was more than ready to get serious about my studies once I returned to the SRJC. The educational plan was clear because I utilized EOPS , and the counseling departments, to help guide me this time. Also. I took suggestions. Like college success classes and library science so I could utilize the campus to my best advantage. Once I got over my ego, and learned to study, I began raising my GPA. I needed a lot of extra help and again took suggestions for college success and I signed up and used the tutorial center everyday instead of jetting home and putting off my school studying until never! I found that the disability resources wasn't just for those with physical disabilities but the invisible kind, like my learning disabilities and other physiological issues. If it were not for the Disability Resource staff, and Audrey White, specifically, I never would have graduated! I love SRJC, and all the patient and wonderful administration. It is true parking sucks, but I found if I arrived early enough, I had time to study and eat and be on time for class plus find parking. The book, buy-back, is definitely needing renovations as it feels like a big scam:-( They say they'll buy back books but, then half the time they won't and they only return a tiny amount of your money and it feels extremely aggravating as well as just being rippled off. Other than that, I got out of the JC what I put in. If you apply yourself, and stay focused on your studies instead of the distractions of life, you will find that, when you graduate, you will have an excellent education to transfer to a university of your choice. Oh, I also applied for and received NUMEROUS, free grants and scholarships after my GPA rose, and I had learned to write a proper essay. Formatting is important, not just content. I am a proud alumni, and so are my family members as well as 2 of my children and my nephew. And, I had 2 family members who worked at the campus police department for years and they are both two of the kindest, caring people you will ever meet! So, I don't know what the problem was for the previous poster, but I never had any harassment from anyone at the JC. I recommend this college to anyone who wants an...

Disappointment! Not at all what it's said to be. Some of the students/staff would say nasty things about other students/staff while I would observe, the defamation in the midst of students and staff here is undeniable. Unethical and flippant, and the JC hiring and letting these twisted oppressors to continue to work here might point to their own contorted characteristics. We're all humans that make mistakes, in that view keep in mind that even though this school is ranked one of the best in the nation, don't be fooled it's pervaded with snaky management and followers which might make you sense like you've left this placed seriously tortured, even some of the teachers have animosity towards each other. I had a teacher that was teaching their last semester before retirement, and in front of the whole class spilled the beans about this organization, that teacher said, " I hate to tell you guys this, but, they don't care about your education here." I always knew this I just needed a realist professional to confirm the dark truth I was feeling about this institution. Most teachers here teach only for the sole reason to collect a paycheck, and not to help further the students education like this academy implies....