I hate this stupid ****, its a 100 level class. obviously she has nothing better to do than assign quiz's for every god damn class.

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Omg this class sucked! She was horrible! You couldn't understand her bc of her southern accent, and she spoke 100 miles a minute. She would also go off track allll the time! She gave way too much work for a 100 level class and a HARD quiz like everyday. Worst teacher ever! Good luck!

if you want to fail take her! Be prepared to fail all the test even if you study it does not matter you fail!!! MEMORIZE THE TEXT BOok

All you do is reittrate the text book. Nothing is ever good enough for Jennifer Wood however. She basically fails you on every outline and speech for no apparemt reason. Hard for no reason. Speech should be way easier.

This class was the biggest waste of my time. It is all basically busy work and memorization. It did not teach me how to speak in public. Everything in this class is based on memorizing the text rather than learning how to speak and write speeches. AVOID!

OHMYGOODGOLLYGOSH. Couldn't stand her. Quizzes are easy, just memorize the chapter headings & vocab. Tests are just bigger quizzes. SPEECHES ARE AWFUL. Outlines must be EXACTLY what you're planning to say, EXACTLY as she wants them to be or you fail.

Dr. Wood is a perfectionist. Her teaching method is of little use and you need to return to her to understand submitted outlines way too much to get a decent grade.

She was extremely nice, and interested in all of her students. I and a few others in my class just had a very hard time understanding what she had to say. She's a rambler...

Dr. Wood is not specific about what she wants and uses the discovery method, which means she wont explain what you have to do for assignments, you have to figure out how to do it on your own. She is a tough grader and also unpredictable. She is very passionate about PR and considers her students PR professionals.

This class was not an intro course but it was a GPA dropper. There is a quiz every class, 2 Exams AND a final, 3 papers, and 2 ridiculous outlines for your two main speeches that constitutes 50% of your grade. Lectures are insanely boring, I would recommend taking Speech with another professor if you don't want the insanely tedious workload.

Nice person, bad professor. Has a lot of energy but during lectures, she gets off topic VERY quick and it takes awhile for her to get back on topic. Read the book, but pay attention to the lectures, because she tests you on some of what she says in the lecture that isn't in the book.

This class was so painful. She lectured on and on but yet seemed to not say anything at all? She would tell me how great my speeches were but only give me Bs. Do not take this professor for a lower level comm class. You also had to give answers word for word from the text book in order to do well on quizzes. My least favorite college class ever.

Dr. Wood seems like a very nice person, but is not very organized and clear. Majority of the quizzes require the exact answer she wants, ans while you may have the right term if it is not the way she wants it written out you lose points making tests annoying and difficult even for an online class. There is also no review for quizzes.

Each assignment in this class counts for a large portion of your grade- including the mid-term, final, two major speeches, and group projects. When reading the textbook, make sure you memorize every word if you want to pass the mid-term and final. Don't forget to also pay attention even when she goes on hour-long tangents about her successful life.

I have no idea how she won a teaching award. She openly criticizes and compares students in class after and even DURING speeches. Worst environment to learn how to give a speech. She doesn't give assignment guidelines and then gives you C's for not reading her mind. Ironically, she's late to class pretty often but takes points off if you are.

I literally got points taken off on a quiz because I elaborated. I got docked points for being MORE specific. Ridiculous. And also got a point off because, for an answer, I put the singular form of a word (AS WAS IN THE TEXTBOOK) and she had set the correct answer as the plural form. I didn't get that point back either. Absolutely horrendous.

I read the reviews of Dr. Wood and was nervous but I didn't believe the reviews at first. I wish I listened. Dr. Wood is an intelligent woman but is an extremely tough grader, has lengthy and sky-high expectations, and often gives unclear and irrelevant feedback. If professor bias was approved to be mentioned, I would mention that too.

unfair & causes drama

Really not a good prof for on hands learners, not great class difficult to understand and hard grading

Had to drop her class because all she did was talk and make non comical jokes. She didn't even prepare us for our first speech/help us feel less anxious.

I do not like this class at all. The class is an entry level course that is supposed to be simple, but the teacher treats the class as if its the highest level comm class you can take. The answers for the quizzes do not line up at all with what is in the textbook. If you're confused about something, good luck figuring it out. Avoid her if possible.

Jennifer does not answer emails, she does no grading, it's all online quizzes, her lectures are just her life story, and she brags about how no one passes her class. She claims she is one of the top PR people, but she's teaching in the middle of nowhere. Don't bother asking her for help, she won't help you. she does not care about her students.

Worst professor I have ever had. She does not respond to emails, you teach yourself everything by reading the textbook so coming to class is pointless, and she is very rude. She does not provide any rubrics or guidelines for any projects. AVOID!

COMM 100 is possibly one of the easiest gen ed to take at college, but unfortunately Dr. Wood treats it as a 300-400 level course. Shes a tough/slow grader and a horrible communicator. You will be quizzed on chapters before going over the material in class. Be prepared for stale lectures and long tedious assignments. AVOID her COMM 100 at all cost!

Avoid Dr. Wood for your public relations courses if you have to take them. The majority of the course is okay, you take a 45-minute quiz every week online. Towards the end was an awful project that we were hardly given any instruction. Even though my group worked really hard to meet requirements she graded us so harshly.

I have taken many of Dr. Wood's class (three now),avoid her class at all costs especially if you're not majoring in Public Relations. She acts as if she is above her students. This class does not give you much opportunity to do well outside of the mid term and final, which is cumulative. The tests are very difficult, take good notes and STUDY!

Nightmare. Very unclear with directions and expects you to give the most effort for a Speech class. Textbook quizzes where the book could have 20 different terms and she will quiz on 5. Do not take this class if you get assigned her. While it is doable, it was a nightmare, many people dropped.

I 100% do not recommend taking Dr. Wood for COMM100. She never really taught anything and only had you read 30 pages chapters from the textbook. You wouldn't know how to properly do your next speech until a week or two before you were to give it, but expected you to start it much earlier and have a lot of time to work on it.

This class has caused serious decline in my mental health. Quizzes every class, literally expects you to read a chapter of the textbook for every day you have her for homework. The tiniest mistake takes a solid chunk off your grade, but she gives limited instruction. Lectures are boring and she expects you to be amazing at speech after first one.

You can't miss more than 1 class per her syllabus. A girl in my class was failed for having surgery. She won't let you make up the quiz for the class you missed. She grades harshly and is snarky/rude in her minimal feedback. She will accuse the entire class of cheating on a semi-regular basis but then act like she's our friend outside of class.

literally just don't. do anything to work around her.

Absolutely Awful

I took this class last spring, so here's my advice from roughly six months later: Don't do it. Prof expects you to work like "young professionals" instead of students and gives hardly any room to actually learn because she expects you to already know everything. I had actual nightmares about this class while taking it, and you probably will, too.

I have her for Comm 100 and she is possibly the worst professor I have ever had, she is rude, expects way to much for a 100 level course that is mandatory and always goes over class time and then snaps at you for packing up. She will change assignment dates and email you the night before saying something is due so you have no time to prepare.

Awful. Rude and judgmental for no reason. Tough grader, will change due dates last minute.

She told the class last minute about something she wanted us to have prepared. I along with 10 other people didn't have it done because of this and we received zeros. She has very unrealistic expectations to the point where nobody could fit what she wanted into a 3-5 minute speech. Almost everyone went over the time limit. She is god awful.

Dr. Wood gives helpful and constructive feedback, which is appreciated by students. However, the handwriting on written comments is often difficult to read, which can make it hard to fully understand the feedback.

Had her for an online class and it was very labor intensive. Far more work than I felt was necessary, but also just a very disorganized prof. Her D2L was confusing and she was not good at responding to communication. Her feedback was always filled with grammatical errors too that made it difficult to understand.

For a communications professor she was a terrible communicator. She was ridiculously strict with formatting things, and was very unclear on what she wanted. She also had a way of insulting our intelligence during her lectures. Public speaking is bad enough and she did not help to alleviate anyone's fears.

Do not take any class associated with this teacher. She makes it IMPOSSIBLE to succeed and improve in the class. She takes points off on anything and everything even things that were not clearly listed as requirements.