Reviews of professor Jessica Hughes

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's an amazing teacher. Her class is not easy so get ready to put in work, but she's extremely understanding and flexible when it comes to due dates. She really cares about her students and their well-being in/outside the classroom. We had three essays and loads of classwork. The classwork helps prepare for the essays so they're actually worth it

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. Hughes is awesome! She does take a bit of time to grade but honestly just completing assignments in time will get you like a c. It was really nice to not have to worry about grades and actually learn how to give a speech or write an outline. She is also insanely flexible; you just have to ask, and she will bend over backwards to make it happen.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took a communication class with Hughes, and it was supposed to be a relatively easy class. However, she made it harder than it needed to be due to the informal, disorderly type class structure. Hughes is definitely an interesting character; she is not a bad teacher, but also not a great one.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The weighting scale for your final grade is variable. Which means that I had no idea what anything was worth or how to prioritize, since she put tons of stuff on each weekly module but most of it was ungraded. But of course, participation is worth part of your grade (who knows how much though). She expects too much engagement out of online students

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Hughes was interesting. She seemed to always come to class frazzled and not sure how to begin. During lectures/speeches, she tended to favor more liberal topics & discussions. She uses contract grading, so as long as you do the assignments you get an A. Doesn't sugar-coat grading. Overall, she's very nice and passionate about public speaking.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Hughes has a lot of negative review on here but I truly enjoyed her class. She is very intelligent and caring but struggles with vague instructions and gives a lot of work for an intro class. However, do not be scared of the ratings on here. The tests are a bit difficult and confusing but there are only 3 and easier assignments raise your grade

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Hughes is a sweet person and means well, but she is a terrible professor. The topics she teaches about don't really have much to do with comm and she makes the class way harder than it needs to be. She is a really tough grader and gives way too much work for an introductory course. If you don't need to take her, don't.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Pros: she is competent & passionate, study guide given, fair exam Qs, workload manageable, variable grade weighting (she will weigh the part you did better on more). Cons: takes long time to grade things, teaches things unrelated to Comm like intersectionality, racism, whiteness. Most things taught related to Comm though. Overall, great professor!