She bases grades entirely on whether she likes you or not. She never responds to her e-mail. This communcations teacher can not communicate to save her life.

She has total favorites and totally fakes interest in peoples stories and comments. Grades based on whether she personally likes you. There was interesting lecture materials but class activities were ridiculous and a huge waste of my valuable time, take the class from someone else.

Won't be able to tell you your grade until it's final. Doesn't let you make up anything. Is very vague on the whole grading process.

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This professor is absolutely ridiculous She has favorites in the class Has an unclear grading scale.. doesn't tell you your grade until final grades are out and fakes an interest in what you have to say Quizzes are poorly formatted I went to 95% of classes read the book and studied and somehow got a C- even though all my grades were A's

I agree she is very friendly but unflexible. Her grading is extremely unpredictable and not set on any certain guidelines. It is EXTREMELY hard to figure out what she wants and asking her may confuse you more. If you value your GPA, this course may not a good idea.

No guidelines at all, grading makes no sense whatsoever. She did not give us any guidelines on the group project, then after we had all presented she listed off all the things we did wrong which would have been nice to know before the project was due. Ultimately, this class is a waste of time with her teaching it.

This course is far more more work then 4 credits. It is basically impossible to pass. The quizzes make no sense and the grading makes even less sense. If you want to spend your entire term doing pointless activities and writing an OBSCENE amount (I'm a writing minor and say that), then go for it. But I will never take a class from her again.

She has you buy this workbook which is supposed to have notes from her lectures in it, but it is missing multiple sections and is completely unorganized. She talks way too fast at the lectures too. I did great with speeches in the Rec. class, but then doing the tests was ridiculous. Unrelated, unorganized, and unprepared from lectures.

If you value your grade don't take this class. Probably one of the worst courses you can take with a terrible professor.

This course is far more work then 3 credits. Do NOT take this course from Bushnell. VERY unclear expectations. lectures/workbook/slides and assigned readings do not match. slides are from 2011. No guidelines at all, grading makes no sense whatsoever. Her grading is extremely unpredictable,not set on any certain guidelines. extremely disappointed!

This teacher is a tough grader, inconsistent, unclear, doesn't grade correctly, and doesn't allow enough time for quizzes. This teacher doesn't grade or assign quizzes fairly either. Its sad to feel like she doesn't want her students to succeed. This class is extremely unenjoyable and I would advise anyone to avoid taking this class.

Worst professor I have ever encountered. Grammar is atrocious, does not give full credit for anything, gives 10 minutes to complete 13 question fill in the blank quizzes, expects a 10 page paper, a 6 page paper, a group project and a write up, weekly half page papers, weekly discussions... I have no idea how Oregon State justifies her employment.

Opened up the class late, notes packet was late, did not respond to email. Vague in directions. Tests have unexpected information. Does not interact with class. Grading makes no sense, one week I get a great job, the next week where I put more effort in, I get a try harder next time with an 812. She is awful, do not take this class!

One of my least favorite professors, she skips random content from the book that she disagrees with, didn't give us a syllabus schedule until the third or fourth week, everything is turned in at the end so no feedback, requires a group project, rambles quickly without saying much at all, lectures resemble high school... would not recommend

Inconsistent grading. Gives good grade one week then writes a positive comment but give low grade the next week. Unclear expectations- her explanations are vague and she will not try to clarify if you ask. Huge workload -far more than expected for a 3 credit course. Group project is impossible. Seems she doesn't want students to be successful.

Don't take this class. It's way too much work for what this class should be. Even if you do all of the work, it's impossible to get a decent grade because her expectations are so vague and yet she grades really harshly. I got half credit for being too vague one week, and half credit for being too detailed the next. Incredibly frustrating.

her class was not very organized, and it seemed to me that every TA had his/her own agenda. Depending on the TA you had, the class was very different. The curriculum varied on however they wanted to teach it. I don't recommend this class. Once the prof monitors what goes on during recitation there might be some hope to doing well in it.

She grades on a curve and will say that she can't give you your grade throughout the course, which was not helpful at all. The lectures are very interesting and relatable, but the material and style of testing is very vague.

This class is very unclear and poorly organized. She gave us two syllabuses, one in week 2 or 3 and another week 7 because the first one was incorrect. She goes off on personal stories during lecture, grades tests weird and thinks you should know all material like the back of your hand. Beware: bulk of points are turned in at the end of the term.

It's ironic in interpersonal comm. I had no idea what my grade was until the very end and even then it was a surprise. She promotes stereotypes. Her final held no relevance to material taught. She grades on a curve because many do not do well on the assignments. I didn't learn anything and highly suggest taking different class that is worthwhile

Quite possibly the worst teacher I've ever had. Her lectures sounded like she was going off of her memory of a pop science book she read 30 years ago. Avoid at all costs

Bushnell is so self absorbed it was hard to listen to her. I learned nothing from her, and upon asking other students, neither did they. And her side kick, michele hewlitt was worse. how they stay relevant in the communication department is beyond me. make sure you sign up with one of the men in the department if you want to learn.

Bobette was so rude and was not a fair grader. Also she never posted anything on Canvas so you didn't know what your final grade was until the very end.

She was so unclear on every assignment, you had no idea what you were doing most of the time. Considered a C on the presentation as average performance, which is unfair if you try your best. She hasn't told us our grades for anything. I took this for a bacc core class, it shouldnt have been this hard. Like she likes to give out bad grades.

Only taught for half the term and had her TAs teach the other half. This class is tolerable if u have an easy TA (who grades easy). Materials from the lectures r on the tests. Everything I learned in this class was not helpful.

Bushnell does nothing all term. We saw two prerecorded video lecture by her and the rest were made by TAs. The TA you have for your recitation is the only instructor that matters. Most of the information in lectures is either super obvious or completely useless. The midterm and final ask weirdly specific and subjective questions.

For someone who has been around the comm department for so long, she is a terrible communicator (doesnt even respond to emails) and gives incredibly vague directions for assignments. Then, she grades assignments super tough and marks students down for arbitrary reasons. Would 10/10 recommend you do not take her classes.

Took this course online. Absolutely the most pretentious, useless, anguishing class I've taken. Lectures are posted for one hour only and never seen again, and the tests require you to relay the smallest details from those lectures verbatim. All tests use Proctorio and the speeches are graded incredibly harshly. Class only exists to tank your GPA.

There is an attitude of "This is the most important class you'll ever take in College" that is unbefitting of a 100-level introductory course. During the recitations, the TAs don't have enough time to go over specific questions about our speeches, they can only provide general info on what they're looking for. Would not recommend.

This is a 3 credit class, but I don't think anyone told the professor that. Assignment expectations are poorly communicated and the grading comments are not constructive, so you have no idea what she wants you to do to improve. I got marked down for accidentally doing an extra assignment...

I do not recommend anyone serious about learning interpersonal communications take this class with Bobette Bushnell. He does not provide thorough feedback and does not comprehensively review your projects. He doesn't care about his students.

This is one of the most pretentious classes I've taken. Yes, public speaking is important. However, it does not warrant such an egotistical teaching style. Be prepared to follow restrictive templates and a "my way or the high-way" policy. To make this all worse, you must buy her textbook, which adds little to the class and is a scam.

This was the worst, most time-wasting course I have ever taken. This class has an extensive focus on memorizing vocabulary words. These terms are often completely irrelevant. It's poorly organized and poorly graded, please just take something else.

Where do I even start. The only redeeming quality of this class was the TA.. Other than that this class was terrible. The textbooks contradicts what is said in the lecture, the course guide is a waste of money and just there to scam students. Bushnell is super egotiscical. The midterm and final ask subjective and specific question. Terrible.

Like others have said, the only redeeming part about this course is the TAs (if you have a good one). You are given a textbook and have to memorize vocabulary for the midterm and test. However, none of it is relevant for speech preparation. The TAs saw the overwhelming amount of problems with this course and gave everyone extra credit.

She's really the only choice for COMM 111, so she straight up has a monopoly and scams pretty much everyone who's required to take the class. You gotta pay north of 90 bucks for her useless textbook and course guide, which is extra to the tuition cost. She never even bothered to hold actual lectures, just recordings. Straight up awful class.

Professor is literally the most egotistical person I have met. The textbooks are a scam. $40 for a workbook that is only used for grading sheets for the teacher. Teaches public speaking which is ironic because she will talk about how the course is the best bacc core and rephrase is 5 times before she actually teaches the class.

Worst class I have taken. She is egotistical person who does not even teach anything related to the course. Getting a good grade is mainly luck and having a good TA. The midterm and final are the most subjective tests ever and contradict what she says in lecture. Worst of all the midterm and final are based on the most random small details.

Tough grader and tough feedback. There was no rubric to grade off of and the syllabus was not organized. I would not take her again.

Awful class. Bushnell grades things ridiculous ways for no reason, syllabus is awful, lectures don't make sense, and content is bland. The big assignments had zero description to go off of and then she graded people down with no explanation. Barely anything was taught all term but the final had all these things we never learned. Horrible experience

This class is an acute perspective of western cultural interaction neglecting to see the intersectional nature of college student culture. There is a lot of gender assumption and if one identifies as trans or nonbinary you will be misgendered and she interchanges gender and sex, the textbook on the other hand does acknowledge the difference.

The recitation leaders are actually graduate students which are common in universities with graduate programs. The recitation leaders are great, I really like being in recitation, but Bobette seems like she doesn't want to be there. The textbook and the lectures do NOT match up and the lectures are mostly useless.

Your entire grade in this class depends on your TA because she only does the lectures and your TA will grade everything. You will need the workbook ($20) as is has all the fill in the blank lecture notes and speech grading sheets, but you don't need the actual textbook (THAT SHE WROTE) quizzes are common sense. Class isn't hard, just annoying.

horrible class. Lectures don't make sense. Professor barely teaches. Need a good TA to pass class. Final is based off of lectures only, but there is no way to access the lecture powerpoints or notes. The midterm and final are very subjective, barely on the content learning in recitations or on the textbook. Don't buy the textbook, it is barely used

Bobette makes you buy her notebook for the class (that she wrote). You also "need" to buy her textbook (that she also wrote). Do yourself a favor and only buy the notebook- you don't really need the textbook. Content is not at all accessible- if you miss a lecture hopefully you have a friend in the class because notes are never posted online.

Makes you buy $40+ worth of books just for 5 pages that you actually need. The lectures she gave were completely useless and the graduate students have to go really fast to give their lectures if they want to get all the info out. Not sure why there's a midterm and final for a class about talking. Do the extra credit, you'll need it.

I really did not like Bushnell. With very little notes she makes us take, she makes about all of the exam content on the lectures. You have to get very specific taking note of every single detail in lecture if you want to do well in this class.

The class was not challenging, but Dr Bushnell does make you buy a textbook and workbook which she wrote, and could easily have been put onto Canvas. She does about two lectures over the semester, which was ok because I preferred the grad students lectures. The test has some very subjective questions, so it is hard to get anything over a B.

Prof. Bushnell herself isn't a great public speaker. The lectures are pretty much useless, she only teaches 3 and makes the TAs do the rest. Your grade in the class depends on your TA since they're the ones who grade your speeches. Beware of the midterm since it has little to do with public speaking and is meant to trip you up. Don't buy textbooks.

Bobette makes you purchase the grading rubric and doesn't post anything online. Don't buy the textbook - you only need it for the 3 or 4 quizzes and there's a copy in the library you can use for free. Lectures are pointless as all material in the class is common sense. She's a pretty bad teacher but the class is easy. Would never take again.

Bushnell lectures were unimportant and not worth your time. The lectures were only available in class and not posted online if you have to miss. You were told its required to buy a textbook, but I never touched it. She only taught the class twice before making guest speakers do the rest of her job. Pick a good recitation teacher.

The professor makes you buy her book, which she wrote but isn't needed for the class. The quizzes pertain to nothing taught in lectures or class, and the grading depends on who you have as your TA, which for me was someone brand new to teaching.

The class is entirely taught by your recitation teacher and she stops lecturing after about 2 weeks. The class is considered hybrid, but honestly you don't need to watch the online videos. Do not buy the textbook, it is completely unnecessary for anything in this class, and as long as you can do the 6 speeches you'll be fine. Exams were super easy.

Professor makes you buy textbook which you DO NOT NEED and stops lecturing after the first few weeks. Everything in lecture only pertains to what will be on the midterm and final, and the questions have nothing to do with what you focus on in recitation. The canvas materials are pointless and as long as you do well with the speeches you will be fin

She herself isn't a good public speaker which is a little bit discouraging for a public speaking professor. She has a bit ego and doesn't seem like someone that is approachable whatsoever. She doesn't even lecture after a couple weeks and the class is pretty much entirely run by the recitation instructors.

Bushnell is a major red flag as far as professors go. She runs her class with such entitlement that it's hard to respect her. She acts like her class is the most important you'll ever take when in reality, it's probably the most useless out of every class you take at OSU in the 4 years you're there. Take literally any other speech class.

I don't know why she thinks she can teach, because frankly she can't. You also can't ever miss even a single lecture, because unless you have friends that can send you the notes, you'll never find the slides on canvas, and you'll be screwed for the tests. She's also terrible at responding to emails, so never take any class with her teaching it.

Her tests are AWFUL and her lectures are a waste of time. Bobetta does nothing and your TA is far more important (I recommend Anna or Vave).

Public speaker extraordinaire! Said no one ever.

You would expect that the lead professor in a public speaking class would model effective public speaking during her lectures. Bobette did not. Her visual aids were poor, she lacked enthusiasm, and it was clear she has not updated her examples. If she had given one of her lectures for a grade in my class, she would not have earned an "A".

The absolute worst class at OSU but of course, like all infamous instructors, Bobette starts out by stating that COMM111Z is by far the most important class you will EVER take in your life. Her lectures do not have any meaningful information and she forces you to buy an overpriced textbook that she herself wrote. Harsh exams too!

Bobette herself doesn't do anything for the course and you will never cross paths with her. All shes does her push her Mormon beliefs on you and make the midterm/final full of trick questions. Get Clay Williams as a TA. He's great.

I would rather have Darth Vader as a professor for Public Speaking than Bobette Bushnell.

Imagine writing a mandatory textbook filled with complete horsesh*t and then upselling it for a ludicrous price. Then write borderline impossible, closed-book exams with said horsesh*t that students are forced to take for a public speaking class. That is Bobette Bushnell for you. Just look for a good TA because they will be your saving grace.

For a public speaking professor, I expected a better public speaker. Not a woman who cannot get a single coherent sentence out of her mouth. Her exams are brutal and are completely unnecessary for a class about better communication. Apply the practice Mrs. Bobette, not the theory.

What the hell was this class??? I expect an introductory public speaking class to be graded on effort and to give good feedback that helps students improve. Not a costly, mandatory textbook with right-wing ideologies, Mormon philosophies, and communication theory. And the grading was so harsh??? Remove the exams entirely please.

No. The answer is no. Do not take.

She is cruel. Like the witch from Hansel and Gretel who lures kids in with promises!

Avoid this class if you can. The professor's lectures are dull, and the course requires a mandatory textbook filled with questionable content. However, using resources like unstuckstudy alongside the TA's guidance may help you get through this challenging class.

This class is goofy. You're required to buy 2 textbooks by the instructor. The exams are tough and often cover obscure material barely mentioned in lectures. My grade dropped a whole letter for going 30 seconds over on a speech. The content feels niche and seems crafted by Bushnell to sell her poorly written, self-authored book.

WAY TOO DIFFICULT FOR A 100 SERIES CLASS! This teacher prides herself on how hard she makes her tests (midterm + final). She forces you to buy her book because she wrote it and it is very useless. Questions on tests are weird or situational but give no situation. I have heard no one sing praises about this class or teacher. Only take if required.

AVOID IF POSSIBLE! Don't buy the required textbook, get the course guide if you really want to but you can just ask a friend for the notes. The entire midterm and final is just memorizing useless lists of things that was said during the lectures. You don't even need to show up to the lectures, just use Quizlet to study for the tests.

Do not take this class. The lectures and midterms were useless. They were hard for no reason and I learned nothing. I genuinely wanted to improve my public speaking but the classes and lectures did not teach me anything useful.

I'd learn more from a frontal lobotomy. COMM111 is terribly managed, especially for a required class, and does nothing but take your money while making you more cynical and jaded. My TA was great though, but there's only so much she could do with the garbage that makes up this course.

Professor who makes you buy HER textbooks. Tests are UNNECESSARILY TOUGH, I enjoyed speaking and working with my recitation instructor and looked forward to going to those. I would avoid if you don't have to take, simply because the tests are unreasonably difficult and this class will likely not improve your public speaking. WASTE OF TIME.

An otherwise average public speaking class ruined by pointless midterms and final, which are all tests. Test content consists of almost exclusively memorized terms, definitions and miscellaneous information, yet is CLOSED NOTE and does not have a study guide, preparing you for failure. Professor also forces you to buy her textbook and course guide.

The course's difficulty is artificially heightened by the midterm and final. You are forced to buy useless textbooks and answer vague, subjective multiple choice and true or false questions based almost entirely on lecture notes.

I can't say much about her since I didn't see her past week three after she stopped teaching her own lectures. Speeches are graded based on stringent guidelines that you will not see nor apply later. Midterm and final questions based on word-for-word lecture content, forcing you to memorize an obscene amount of information you will promptly forget.

The midterm and final place heavy emphasis on memorization, rather than applying learned concepts in a productive way. In fact, a entire third of the course's points reside in the arbitrarily difficult exams, meaning you could be the best speaker in town, but still fail. Bushnell does not effectively prepare students for the exams. DO NOT TAKE.

Spawn of the devil

This is a woman who thinks her class is the most important a student will ever take. It's not true at all.

She shows up for maybe 5 lectures then lets the assistants do all the rest. She wrote the required textbook used in the class which was not helpful for actually understanding the material. Midterm and final are entirely memorization of subjective points made in the lecture and not based on actual competence in public speaking.

Sucked the joy out of public speaking. My TA was great, but this class was difficult on tests and grading, but not on material. You need to study for the tests, they are not concept based. If you're looking for a class to fill a requirement, do all that you can to avoid this one.

I'll put it simply: Don't go to Lecture if you have common sense and can study Quizlet for a few hours before the exams. Do not buy Bushnell's book. Quizzes and exams (to a degree) are based on Lecture; seldom is the focus ever actually on the content, but whether or not you have justified Bushnell's existence and salary by attending lecture.

Bobette rarely even shows up to the lecture itself often leaving to other instructors. Your final grade will be mostly be based on how well you do on the midterm which follows the lecture notes, if you dont then hope you can do better on final which is an average of a C. Your public speaking experience ultimately comes down to whoever your TA is.

NOT a good class and NOT a good teacher

Please take this class at Linn Benton or PCC

I regret wasting my life going to these lectures. Stops teaching after the third lecture. Terrible public speaker, no business teaching anyone else! Don't buy her god awful textbook. The difficulty of the midterm and final is artificially inflated, no reason for it to be this bad. The recitation is fine, but your instructor makes or breaks it.

YOU WILL NOT LEARN ANYTHING!!! TESTS ARE WAY TOO HARD AND YOUR TA WILL BE UNFAIR!!

The lecture content is deceivingly simple and is not the "just memorize these few things" that she makes it out to be. I studied heavily for the midterm and barely passed and for those who studied less I could tell it was brutal. Many of the questions fall in a grey area with two equally likely answers. Memorized alot, learned little.

COMM111 at OSU is an AWFUL class and the program needs to be reconstructed entirely. Take it anywhere but here. Textbook is "mandatory" but is pretty much useless and the exams have the most unnecessarily difficult questions based on microdetails from lectures. You need a good GTA to grade your speeches or you are in for a rough term.

Take this class anywhere else. The lectures are useless, prof. makes you buy her own textbook and then never uses it (the whole thing is a money grab), and the midterm will contain things you've never seen before. Your grade will depend entirely on your TA and how strict they are with speeches.

She not teach.

The midterm came completely out of left field. It was multiple choice and 100% trick questions. If could give you one piece of advide it would be to TAKE ANY COMM CLASS BUT THIS ONE!

The midterm questions were completely unrelated to the lecture notes and are designed to trick you.

I enjoyed the public speaking course, but did not like Bobette. She makes you purchase two books for her class that she wrote. The textbook is NOT necessary; the workbook is. She only teaches half of the lectures and then lets the GTAs do the rest, which seems pretty lazy to me. The midterm was easy if you studied.

She doesn't actually do anything. She'll give the first three lectures and then the recitation teachers will give the remaining ones. It's your recitation teacher who grades everything and will make or break your class. However, you will get a midterm and final from her which is just memorization. She's also just a terrible public speaker.

This is an awful class, probably the worst at OSU. Bobette has a huge ego and the way she built this course is terrible. Her lectures are boring and that is when she does do stuff. Exams have a handful of trick questions and the majority of the exam is a questions with microdetails. Most of the graduate TA recitationers also have tough grading.

Found the tests hard and the questions confusing, and the giving 5-7 minute speeches every week stressful. Would recommend taking the other options such as the discourse option or debate.

Bobette is a bad public speaker. Get her course guide, and NOT her textbook. Try to find a good recitation instructor. The Scantron midterm was intentionally confusing. The only redeeming factor of this class is that if you have a 94% or higher by week 10, you end the term with an A and do not have to take the final.

Do not take her. If you do, DO NOT BUY THE TEXTBOOK, only buy the workbook! The textbook is not at all required and was a waste of money. Attendance was not required for the lecture, but if you didn't go, you missed key information that she does not post ANYWHERE. No slides, no canvas; if you missed the lecture, good luck getting that information.