how can anyone say he is great??? this guy is the worst professor ive ever had. i am a comm major and i am furious that i have to keep taking him until i graduate because he cant be fired!! if you dont have to take him, DONT! he treats students like they are stupid. its not fun.

one word: Tenure.

His class is very hard to sit through, because his lectures are very hard to understand. He does not provide helpful feed back. His assignments are unclear.

hes FRESH OFF THE BOAT. he might be smart (but what comm major is smart? he called a skate board a "roller coaster" hes a comm teacher that cant communicate....he sucks

rambled forever and never connected things i learned nothing and i went to every class

He doesn't use powerpoint slides, but he uses transparencies but he won't back the damn projector up to enlarge the damn transparencies. I STRONGLY recommend you get this class over with during interterm, because you'd probably want to commit suicide if you were in this class for 16 weeks.

I started off the semester in two classes with this guy. It took less than 2 weeks for me to realize that if I ever had to sit through another one of his lectures I would just die of BOREDOM, because he talks soooo slooooow and about absolutely NOTHING!! its just a pointless hassle to waste your time with this guy! yes, i dropped the class and ran!

going to class was a daily struggle. jia is painfully boring. although he promises broadening your cultural perspectives, he is extremely biased and ethnocentric towards Asians, his own background. It's basically a study of everything he's interested in. we never studied australia, canada, africa, russia, europe, south america... he makes up words!

let me sum up Jia's class or should i say Culture Mountain...this is what i learned: that my parents paid too much for me to listen to him babble about crap. all he cares about is china and the chinese people in the class, he tells you to google everything...in chinese, he makes up words that have meanings, which he also makes up, you learn nothin

Chapman University should be ASHAMED that they let him still teach. He is honest to God the worst professor I have ever had. He is very proud of himself, and teaches solely from his own famed lectures and writings. He accepts NO opinions other than the right opinion (his own). If it's the last thing I do, I will make sure he gets fired. What a wast

the worst professor ever! Very unclear and does not teach what should be taught, instead focuses on his studies and asian cultures in a COM THEORY class! Chapman needs to get rid of him or stick him in a lab instead of teaching!

AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL. I cannot understand what he is saying, and the class should be called ASIAN communication not intercultural communication. He is entirely biased and has not taught anything about communication throughout the world

AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL. I cannot understand what he is saying, and the class should be called ASIAN communication not intercultural communication. He is entirely biased and has not taught anything about communication throughout the world

Literally the worst professor I have ever come across. TERRIBLE. Stay away from him at all costs. If by some miracle you can A) stay awake in his class B) Understand what he is saying and C) relate EVERYTHING to China, then you may be OK. But if not, do not take his class.

This is one of the worst classes I've ever taken. The fact that this professor is tenured is shocking. The material is dry on it's own and he makes it equivalent to the Sahara in summer. He is IMPOSSIBLE to communicate with (ironic) and unless you're obsessed with China, you'll learn very little. Don't waste your time or your money.

One of the worst teachers I have ever seen. I cannot believe this guy is on tenure. He does NOT speak english and his intercultural class is a joke. He talks about how great Asia is and compares it to the current state of the US pointing out the recession and war. This teacher is the WORST.

Jia is subjective with your grades and doesn't fully grade your assignments based on it's quality. IF he likes you (rare) you will do well, if not, he will most possibly give you a terrible grade. Jia is not a good professor. Do NOT TAKE HIM.

SO BAD. I was not absent once during all of interterm and he marked me down as absent twice, giving my grade a 10% reduction. If you take this class, make sure that you know he's marking you there.

Quite literally the WORST professor I have ever had.His class is extremely boring and he makes no effort into make it interesting. Very few lectures he did were not helpful. Very vague on assignments but with high expectations on certain standards and formatting, and then grading harshly. UGH I will never get over how much I hated this class.

Worst professor I've had at Chapman. So unclear. Every day due dates change, assignment criteria change, I met with him to clarify due dates and he said "I don't really enforce due dates, just do things in the right order and turn the final product in on time" he then proceeded to give me half credit on every assignment i turned in for lateness.

This professor is extremely unclear about what he wants from his students and will not help you no matter how many times you approach him. I took this class over interterm, which was hell! The workload is ridiculous and the class is incredibly boring. He is intelligent, but also self-centered and can't teach what he knows. Don't take him, trust me.

Professor Jia knows his material, unfortunately this doesn't translate to class lectures. His assignments are vague, and overall it's extremely difficult to understand what he expects from projects and assignments.

For a communication professor, it's ironic that he's an ineffective communicator. Although the class material was somewhat interesting, the lectures were dry. Shame, because he is smart. The biggest issue: he is very unclear about expectations and "assumes" everyone knows what to do. Even asking him questions didn't result in a clear answers :(

Was the worst teacher I've ever had at Chapman. Extremely boring and changes things last minute. DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH THIS TEACHER!!!

HIS CLASS SUCKS!!!!! Do not take this class if not necessary! His lectures are long and so boring. Everyone walks out his class either seriously confused or questions his ability to teach at a college level. He doesn't even make sense half the time and you begin to wonder if he's actually speaking english at times...

Terrible professor! I had no other choice but to take his class and I regret it. I have learned nothing. It is his way or the highway and his way happens to be extremely confusing. Most of the time he doesn't answer students questions and they just give up because they aren't getting an answer from him. DO NOT TAKE HIM

Worst professor I've ever had. So unclear, doesn't speak english well, completely horrible teacher. Doesn't answer questions, pointless assignments. I learned absolutely nothing. Put in so much work. He uses his own textbook and there are so many errors in it. Such unclear grading criteria too - same multiple choice answers but different grades.

Do not take this professor. He doesn't explain anything well at all and you don't know what he's talking about 90% of the time. HIs lectures are very dry and his slides are text heavy. He helped make the textbook and its full of mistakes. Take the courses he teaches with a different professor.

Professor Jia was one of the worst professors I have experienced during my time at Chapman. He doesn't tell you what grade you have until the very end and he gives a lot of unnecessary group projects (20 person group projects) He makes attendance mandatory but the whole time is talking about random stuff. The layout of his tests is horrible

Awful at lectures. Thick accent and hard to understand. Participate and you'll do fine, but you'll constantly be stressed out about your grade because you have no idea what's going on...

EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS CONFUSING. HE DOESN'T TEACH. HE WANTS YOU TO LEARN FROM A TEXTBOOK HE WROTE. Ridiculous. LITERALLY TAKE ANY OTHER TEACHER FOR YOUR SAKE

I've never had a teacher bad enough to write a review about here until I had Professor Jia. He is a horrible teacher. There are no instructions for any assignments, no grades until the semester is over, he practically makes the class teach each other, and the few lectures he does do are completely irrelevant. Save yourself and don't take his class.

I. Wish. I. Dropped. I took this class to fulfill a GE requirement and I hate it. I don't know my grade because he doesn't input them. His lectures are stupid and barely cover what is on the midterm. He expects us to teach ourselves through group projects covering his textbook. Save yourself don't take a class with him.