Reviews of professor Patricia Daley-Harms

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She has a clear grading criteria and if you just meet everything you'll get full credit. Hws are low effort. Few main speeches (5-8 mins) and some short speeches (1-2 mins). She's v strict on attendance & due dates and isn't flexible at all. Attendance is required there are activities that count toward your grade. Ok prof but take another if u can.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I think she is a very enthusiastic teacher who is good at what she teaches, and is mostly very nice and inclusive. She gives a lot of assignments but they are pretty low effort. She's strict about showing up on time, doesn't answer questions multiple times, didn't prep us well for debates IMO, and is a harsh grader. She loses her temper so easily.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
There are two main speeches that are a good chunk of your grade. As well as 5 engagement speeches and other small speech related assignments. This class is easy, all you need to do is practice for these major speeches. She grades tough on the outlines for the major speeches, so make sure those are up to standard. Other than that, good class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
homework not too bad, you don't truly need the textbook, but the assignments much easier with it. mostly canvas discussions sprinkled in with assignments specific to the textbook. quizzes based on book, but not hard and not too often. final assignment is recording a video breaking a social norm, but easy because you choose your topic

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While Daley-Harms seemed like a considerate teacher & allowed students multiple extra credit opportunities, she's probably the toughest grader I've ever taken. If you don't follow her outline examples exactly the way she wants it, good luck cracking a 70 on the assignment. Don't let the high rating fool you. You can find a better teacher elsewhere.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
*COMM 45, async: Pretty chill class! 2 essays, easy discussion posts, textbook notes/outlines, and media journals (very easy). Prof. Patricia responds pretty quickly to Canvas emails. Very much appreciate her private comments praise + feedback. This was her first time teaching COMM 45, so if you take her class, things should be more manageable :)

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Taught okay and was mostly nice but lost patience with students near the end of the school-year. We were fresh off of spring break and she blew up on a student for their flight being delayed and said that taking vacation was "selfish and privileged" when she had to work. Also VERY unaccommodating to the int'l student during DST switch.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class works with 3 teachers, she is the best out of the 3. She is a fair grader, and she's super nice. But the class uses Iclicker so attendance is sorta required. You'll hate the CAP group assignment, it lasts the entire year (COMM168A/B is a year-long), I ended up with terrible group mates. Every teacher assigns a paper, her's is easy.