Not clear. Last minute professor. Got the job because of her husband. Avoid like the plague.

She makes up assignments on the spot and doesn't explain any of them clearly. She's very boring and isn't too warm and inviting. Overall, find a new teacher for this class!

I had an easier time understanding my teacher from China than Vivian. She makes up assignments and constantly changes the requirements and doesn't explain them at all. If at all possible take this class with someone else. She made this class mush harder than it needed to be.

Vivian is ridiculous. We haven't had a single assignment due when she originally said. She is constantly changing due dates and never really explains what we need to be doing. I am never going to take another class with her. Nothing makes sense dealing with assignments.

The worst teacher I have had in my scholastic career. They assignments are poorly explained and she takes an unrealistic amount of time to give you your grades. The final is tomorrow and there are currently 6 assignments that I am waiting on a grade for. I truly feel that the rest of my journalism career will be jeopardized because of this class.

It is now towards the end of the semester and I am still waiting on 4 assignments to be graded. She is extremely critical and subjective on what she wants you to do and her instructions are extremely vague. Like other reviews have said, she constantly makes up assignments on the spot and changes deadlines. Avoid at all costs!

Good news.. She's nice. That's where it ends. Medina-Messner is not a good teacher at all. Not clear in what she wants. Has trouble explaining things. Unorganized. Gets frazzled very easily. Doesn't grade in a timely manner. It literally took her over 2 months to grade papers. Hard to develop as a writer when u don't get feedback. Avoid if possible

BEWARE: Extremely disorganized professor, she seems completely overwhelmed. We are already behind schedule, she hasn’t graded our work and it’s only 3 weeks into the semester! She does not value her student’s time. I work full time and go to school full time and I do not have TIME for this nonsense.

BBEWARE: Extremely disorganized professor, she seems completely overwhelmed. We are already behind schedule, she hasn’t graded our work and it’s only 3 weeks into the semester! She does not value her student’s time. I work full time and go to school full time and I do not have TIME for this nonsense.

Not an understanding professor at all. Not passionate about the subject. Her and her husband should not teach because they are both terrible at it.

I would definitely not recommend this class. Professor Medina is unorganized, uninteresting, and annoying. If you are a mass comm major you will simply have to suffer through but if you are not do not take this class. Had us buy an expensive textbook and it was not needed. Online lectures are tedious and quiz and exam time is very little.

Unrealistic expectations, even if you read the assigned readings from the book. Content is very dry, there is no effort to even try & make it interesting. She piles assignment upon assignment, even if you have good time management it is very difficult to succeed in this class. Avoid this professor if you can.

The schedule for this class was out of control. SAVE YOURSELF PLEASE!!!!!!!! IT'S TOO LATE FOR THE REST OF US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The work is pretty easy, the problem is the professor sporadically posts assignments past the time they were supposed to be posted on the syllabus, but she still sticks to the original due date. So you might only have 1 or 2 days to complete an assignment when you should have had 5 days. She never posts grades so good luck knowing where you stand!

She is hard to understand. She is confusing. Her grammar is awful. Her instructions never make sense. I feel like she doesn't know what she is even talking about half of the time. Awful professor. Doesn't handle stress well. Overwhelmed always. Always behind. Do. Not. Take. Her.

This course is equivalent to a high school freshman elective. All you do is read out of the textbook, watch the boring powerpoint presentations, and take online multiple choice quizzes. I felt as though I did not learn anything in this course, and that I wasted 3 credits and tuition on this online nonsense. The professor not very good.

Prof Medina just reads off the powerpoints for her "online lectures" and doesn't even know what she's talking about half the time. She has an accent so be prepared. Horrible class about the history of mass comm, which is essentially useless unless if you somehow end up on jeopardy. What makes it worse is she was the only prof available. Amazing.

I wouldn't recommend this professor. Her "lectures" are her reading from a textbook, and it doesn't seem like she knows what she's talking about, which makes the material seem boring. There are weekly quizzes on the chapters and articles that are pretty easy. You can get most of the info from the powerpoints so don't buy the textbook.

Lots of reading! She wants you to read 5-8 articles/week and barely quizzes on them. Dont bother emailing her because you wont get an answer. I emailed her for the same reason 5 times in 4 weeks and never got a response. Plus, she skips her own office hours. Her video lectures were so painfully boring I could only listen to it the first week.

I was taking 400-500 level classes and this was the only class I was worried about. I had to teach myself everything and the quizzes were tricky. I do not recommend taking this class since it just stressed me out and I didn't learn anything. If you want to take a class by yourself, basically without a professor, this is it. The choice is yours

Her lectures are not original (reads straight from the textbook) and are outdated. The class content is easy but shes so disorganized and late that it throws everything off. I was sick and asked if I could take a quiz late and she just never responded to my emails. She made me want to change my major after having her.

I regret taking this class as my elective because she asks way too much for this to be an online class. She sucks at being on time and doesn't clarify the assignments. Her lectures teach you nothing. Maybe the class would be better if it wasn't online. But the way she has this class set it, its stressful for no reason. Avoid this class if possible.

STAY AWAY from this online class if possible. I lost points on my first three DBs for using the wrong font, but I didn't realize I was losing points because she didn't even grade any of the DBs until we were on the 4th one. She constantly pushes assignments back so they pile up. It's an easy class but extremely unorganized and frustrating.

The class and material are both easy, but she makes it very difficult due to being very busy and unorganized. She is rude when responding to emails and does not give much helpful information. I would absolutely not take her if you can avoid it, otherwise, make sure to pay close attention to the videos she posts on blackboard.

Absolute worst professor I've ever had. Doesn't respond to emails and I had to resort to emailing the board of Mass Communications who ended up being none other than her husband. Drop this course if you can.

It was incredibly difficult to communicate with her, and I received low grades on assignments I should have received higher grades on. I emailed her constantly and she never responded to me as to how I can improve, but instead changed my grade. I do not recommend. Be ready to put in a lot of work for an intro class.

She was one of the worst professors that I have ever had. She RARELY responded to emails and she would always say "I have 300 students" as an excuse. I have had professors with 300 plus students and they were able to help me and they were very responsive. It seemed like she doesn't really care. Avoid her class at all costs.

The class was unorganized, and she would constantly leave students confused with what is going on. Always posts quizzes and exams last minute. I was excited to take this class, but now I regret it. Assignments are easy however, there is a strong lack of communication between the professor and the students.

Absolutely horrible, even to a MASS major. NO organization. Not accessible. Left us in the dark for 7-10 days without an update/assignment, multiple times, then shows no compassion for how lost we all are. To add insult to injury, her tests are timed, which would be fine if they werent 1 min/q (ex. 50 questions, 50 minutes). Do NOT take her, ever.

AVOID. believe me. We learned nothing, she rarely updated the blackboard even though this was all online. Out of 10 quizzes we were supposed to have she only uploaded two for us. TWO. She gets snippy when you ask her to post stuff and she really does nothing. Never take a class with her if you care about learning at all. I felt like I was robbed.

The class was fully online due to the pandemic, no communication between student and professor. Out of the 10 quizzes, we only had 3 and 1 discussion board. She left us for like 3 weeks without any assignments or anything. Honestly its an easy class, professor doesnt seem to care at all, textbook isnt required. Would not recommend taking.

Oh god. Where do I even begin? By far the worst professor I've had - that is if you want to actually learn. We went weeks without hearing from her and had about 5 assignments the whole semester even though they were supposed to be weekly. Easy A because she doesn't care about her students or her class.

Rude and unfair when it comes to quizzes. Not sympathetic or helpful at all.

Just don't take her. I didn't listen to the reviews and now I am upset.

Insanely unorganized. If you work over weekends definitely don't take her class. She does not post the assignments until Friday and they are mostly due on Mondays. Her quizzes are super easy. She isn't great about responding to emails quickly. If it's possible to avoid her class you probably should, it's really not worth your time.

Professor Medina-Messner's class was easy enough, but I was not impressed by her lack of communication outside of the classroom. I emailed her multiple times throughout the course of the class and never received a response. I hope she sees this and puts more effort into communicating with her students in a timely manner.

I understand Professor Medina-Messner had a difficult semester, therefore I don't hold anything against her. Frankly, the class was ridiculously easy and you'd have to actually go out of your way to not get an A. If you want a good grade and can look past unreliable communication, take 274 with Medina-Messner.

Extremely easy asynch class but just an awful professor. Gave me a B for my midterm grade when I got an A and didn't respond to my emails asking her to change it, and she never did change it. Very disorganized, does not post stuff on time, and the quizzes and tests are a joke. Easy A if you can handle basically not having a professor

Unreachable by email. Posted one informational lecture for the entire semester so I literally did not learn a single thing. Taking Diversity in the Media is a very important class for a Journalism department but Medina-Messner does not take her job seriously. This class was unbelievably easy because the assignments took no effort or vital info.

I wish I could rate lower. I think she is extremely unprofessional and I feel as though I am getting robbed of the opportunity I am in fact paying for to be taught by capable and competent instructors. It is hard for me to fathom how a "professor" could have such utter disregard for her students. Will dock points w/o any explanation. shes a joke.

The class itself is not difficult... but that's because of how bad of a professor she is. Unprofessional & apathetic & unorganized. Unclear with grading, guidelines, and other things -- only a few assignments but all of the exams I could get an A on without even trying.

Overall I learned nothing in all 3 classes I took from her. I believe I was barely taught and didn't once receive feedback for any of the work I submitted. Grades were given at random as things from the beginning of the semester to end were all graded with seemingly generic high grades with no explanation the night before grades were due.

You know it's bad when your prof literally implies in an email that they don't care about the class. She was late with posting everything and put practically no effort into making the class educational or worthwhile. I've never felt like a prof cared about their students less, how she still has a job at the university is beyond me.

avoid this prof at ALL COSTS!! dont bother buying the textbook. just be prepared to spend the first hour of the class sitting there as she slowly asks each student how their progress is going with whatever the current assignment is. she makes some assignments up as she goes, so also be prepared if she springs a presentation on you last minute.

Holy incompetent… I swear sometimes I'd show up to class and ask myself what I'm doing here. I don't think she even knows what she's teaching. And of course attendance is mandatory.

don't rlly learn much and the scheduling is terrible and inconsistent, at least it's not too difficult

Honestly a horrible teacher if you can choose not to take her don't take her. Takes forever to grade doesn't listen to student feedback and passive agressive. Only reason she's still a teacher is because her husbands the dean.