Honestly I really disliked her class. I dreaded going. She was very into expiriential learning and tons and tons of group assignments.

Do not take ANY class taught by this professor. The work load is ridiculous and impossible to keep up with if you are taking a full course load. She is a ridiculously hard marker. She has three different websites that have different aspects of the course outline so it is impossible to locate anything and she is not helpful. Stay away.

Really makes you wonder about U of C's hiring practices.

I would not recommend Dr. Smith to anyone. Her grading was only hard because he assignments were so vague. I was glad she used the textbook because she is not a clear communicator. I am also glad that I had previous experience in research methodology so that I was able to do assignments without her help.

Way too much work required for a COMS class. The assignment instructions are very frustrating to follow. The course website is very hard to navigate. Do not take this class with her. If you do, have fun wasting more time on this class than your core classes.

Taking this class online with Dr. Smith was a poor life decision. She is extremely vague and when she is asked questions regarding assignments and quizzes, she just refers to her unnecessarily long instruction documents. What kind of doctor of communications requires a 11 page text document to explain how to write a 1200-1800 woird report? Dr Smith

Tania Smith is absolutely TERRIBLE when it comes to COMS 363 online. She does not post any lecture slides to compress the main ideas for the course, all she does is give students the assignments and the readings and then effectively lays back and does nothing. 10/10, would never recommend this prof to anyone who has another option of a prof.

Communications prof who is really really good at making herself sound smart through the use of large words, while under closer inspection reveals her to, ironically, be absolutely inadequate in terms of actual communication. Handbook was 100% Vague (Cause she wrote it)and riddled in errors, although it is apparently needed for 90% of this course.

Here I am as an engineer and instead of learning about communication in the workplace (and how to speak to people who are not engineers in laymans terms), I am learning about rhetoric appeals and how to conduct and analyze surveys. 2 goals in the workplace, design things and make sure people know what im saying. This class has no relevance at work.

For a Communications prof she does a horrible job in communicating the assignments. Very long reading is required for absolutely everything. Would not recommend her if you have the option to take it with someone else.

Real tough grader, she has lots of requirements that has to be fulfilled for all the writing assignments. She also has a heavy emphasis on argumentation where most of the class is geophysics, engineering and business majors, who focus on presentation of data rather than an argumentation.

For a communications prof, she is very bad at communicating, instructions for simple things are 10-20 pages; instead of learning to communicate properly we do rhetorical analyses. Using her textbook is mandatory and is written like a stupid person trying to sound smart, is very bloated and is mostly the opposite of what this course should be.

Avoid her at all costs. Best advice.

It's unfortunate for the UofC to have T. Smith as a prof for a COMS class. She is not teaching students valuable and practical skills that will be used in the workplace. Useless. I have learned more about technical and prof. communication on my work term than in this class. The class alone is enough for me to NOT recommend students to attend UofC.

This class is not worth the money you spend, especially on a professor like Tania Smith. Spend your money elsewhere. It's ridiculous that students are learning irrelevant material that will be never used in the working world. Keep up with the times, Tania Smith. WE LIVE IN THE YEAR 2015. Wake up will you?

Avoid this class at all cost. Quizzes were hard, assignments were lengthy and hard, and finally the marking scheme was very strict. If you must take this class, choose a different prof or be prepared to spend more time on this class than your cores.

Although Dr. Smith is generous in granting extension of assignments with a valid excuse, I caution anyone who plans to take this class. Be prepared to try to make sense of the instructions she provides for her assignments - instructions are scattered across three or more different d2l links that are 10 - 20 pages long. Very strict marker.

Should be an easy class, but unfortunately Tania is too illogical to properly teach it. Best advice: Avoid,avoid,avoid!

Dr. Smith is very unclear with what she wants. WAY too many assignments. Everything is worth 10 percent. Whether it's a large essay that takes a week or a small presentation they are all weighted the same. On top of it she's a very hard and particular marker. I cannot stress this enough... DO NOT TAKE A CLASS FROM DR. SMITH. Avoid avoid avoid!

Readings were vague and confusing as were the assignment instructions. Students were assigned 2 presentations each. As a result in a 1hr and 15min class, 1 hour was spent viewing student presentations on topics with no relevance to the course. She does not lecture and instead analyzes online sources despite a lack journalistic knowledge. No bueno.

She may be nice but I would avoid this professor at all costs. She is just very confusing a I don't remember having a proper lecture even once. I would advise you to read all the handbooks and just listen to her. She analyses articles in her classes, although she lacks knowledge in journalism. She makes the course hard and she can get annoying!

Insane. For a communication prof she is VERY bad at communicating, So much confusion in what we were expected to do yet SO much mumbo jumbo in reading. Avoid at all costs.

COMS 363 has a purpose to teach students to write with clarity, conciseness and get straight to the point. She, the instructor, has style and communication skills are the opposite of the goals of the course. From emails to assignment outlines, handbooks and resources, everything is long, repetitive, poorly organized, and contains useless info.

As others have said, she is terrible at communicating. If you are in engineering, take this class in spring or summer as there is a different prof and I've heard it's much easier.

The worst thing ever! She grades you so hard, makes your work for even scoring 1% mark . For participation grade you have to do a portfolio which was an assignment in itself, and then she asks for specific instructions font size, terminology. I would not suggest this class. It is a 400 level course but it should not overtake you whole life .

Sometimes I honestly come back to this page to see what people are saying about Dr. Smith. She was to date the worst prof I had in my entire COMS degree. These are all very accurate reviews. Do yourself a favour and STAY AWAY. She pretends to know a lot more than I'm convinced she actually knows - and then still marks you ridiculously hard.

When you send an email asking for clarification, she will reply condescendingly and refer you to some 3 d2l documents each around 20 pages long. If you are good at writing, the course itself isn't difficult, but the way she sets it up makes it a gigantic mess. Avoid at all cost.

Dr. Smith should not be teaching classes. Has clear criteria in her head for marking, but doesn't tell anyone what that criteria should be very well. She definitely knows a lot about communications and rhetoric and is a nice person but does not motivate students at all.

Extremely confusing and difficult class due to the way she sets it up. Has about 300 documents (I'm not exaggerating) on d2l for you to read, that provide little to no clarification. Marking is extremely unfair, and has no method whatsoever. Avoid this class and especially this prof if possible.

Reads from the textbook as her "lectures". Often very incoherent in her explanations and often makes assignments unnecessarily long and difficult to understand. Avoid this prof at all costs.

Throughout my entire university career, Tania Smith is without a doubt the most utterly incompetent instructor I have ever had the misfortune of being taught by. Her "lectures" if you can even call them that consist of her rambling incoherent metaphors while reading directly from the textbook. No visual aids or notes are provided in the class.

Not sure how a communications prof could be such a bad communicator. She has extremely vague descriptions on her assignment outlines and fails to mention things she is looking for until after assignments are graded and you got a C. Lots of homework that is very pointless and doesn't aid in learning. Save yourself and avoid taking a class with her

Absolutely terrible at clearly stating assignment instructions. No In class visual resources, inconsistent marking, and spends the class struggling to describe her own concepts

Honestly just terrible, not much else to say

Gives no constructive feedback on essays or assignments just the rubric which was not helpful. Lectures are her reading out of textbook and once presentations started sometimes wasn't even that. 10/10 would not recommend

Unfortunate that this course is required by the university. Without a doubt this was my least favourite course in my entire undergrad. Dr. Smith is unable to communicate effectively and lacks any kind of self-awareness. I would not recommend this professor to anyone.

Dr. Smith was the weirdest prof I've ever had. Her assignments were way too detailed that the details confuse you. she never gave us slides or notes to write off. It's effortless to tune her out because she goes on random tangents. Dr. Smith expects way too much and has weird grading criteria. If you can dodge her, do it. not the best prof

Grading criteria is clear but OVERLY meticulous! I.e. 10 pages of assignment INSTRUCTIONS longer than your assignment itself. She will spot the tiniest of errors that most instructors would ignore. Very old-fashioned in terms of running the class. Textbook is used sparingly, lectures are just talking and tangential. Course schedule is terrible.

Has a weird, bizarre style of lecturing. Still unclear what I was even supposed to learn from this class.

Dr. Smith is probably the worst lecturer I've ever had. For a class that focuses on rhetorical communication and the importance of visuals and engaging content, it's confusing that Smith spends most of her classes reading off plain word documents. Assignments aren't hard but the instructions are often longer than the assignment itself. Weird class!

Get ready to get lost in her assignment direction, up to 10 pages long for a simple 200 word reading discussion. Doesn't understand how to teach in the 21st century and spends half the class talking about her thyroid disease.

worst professor ever. if you can avoid her, do it.

Assignment instructions are so ambiguous despite being 10+ pages in length. Clarifications about the assignment are emailed out less than 1 week before the due date since every student emails for clarification. The class is way more confusing and challenging than it should be.

AVOID this prof is you can, nothing else to say.. She is a nice person BUT her teaching and instruction is just not IT instructions are like 10+ pages long for a 5% small assignment