Professor Huppin is one of the best professors I have ever had. His lectures are engaging and thoughtful. I always looked forward to going to his classes and talking with him afterwards.
The workload in his class is incredibly light and he grades fairly easy. You should have no problem getting a good grade in his class if you put in even the minimum amount of effort. More importantly, you will learn a lot and have fun in the process.

This class was extremely interesting. It focused on the first amendment and different court cases related to the first amendment. It would probably be even more interesting during an election year. The professor is a fair grader and is engaging during lecture. There was a midterm, final, and two short papers.

Professor Huppin is amazing!! He keeps lecture pretty interesting while also is very lighthearted and funny sometimes. I went into this class with no background in the material whatsoever and while it could get confusing at times, overall it was not bad. We had live zoom meetings twice a week and all the readings were posted on CCLE. Both the midterm and final were part multiple choice and part short answer. They were not too bad, the only problem I had was with the amount of time we were given. The workload for this class is very light and there is not much reading. I usually never read through the cases because it was really hard for me to understand lol so I just looked up summaries online or watched videos explaining them. There were 2 thought papers which were very informal, only about 2-3 pages long, and which we had a week to do. Almost everyone got a 9/10 or above (the real impact on your grade is the final and midterm which are both worth 40% each).
Huppin was very accommodating (he pushed our midterm back and gave us the day off because of the election) and he also said that he usually lets everyone on the waitlist join the class (at least with the online format we have rn). I would really recommend this class and I had a great experience.

Structure of Class:
* Two tests (midterm and final)
* One fairly short essay about a movie
* One creative art project. Not complicated, he gave every 100% (when I took this class)

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Not a difficult class, as long as you study the material before the tests. The material itself is interesting and not difficult to understand, there's just a decent amount of it. From what I remember, some of the content included: Porn, sexual attraction, racial stereotypes, fear of spiders, TV news. Cool stuff, not all theoretical and boring like most other comm classes.

Try to participate during lectures, he appreciates when students speak up. He's a nice guy and this is the second class I took with him. I like Huppin

Going in I was pretty excited about this class but Prof Huppin’s inability to keep the class moving became super frustrating. He ended up cutting out a lot of material from his syllabus because we got so far behind. The same 10ish people would constantly raise their hands which slowed us down and a lot of people would send in chat questions and he would take every single question rather than just moving on so we could get through the material. This ended up kind of hurting us in my opinion because we had only covered about 3 topics by the time we had to take the midterm so I felt like he was stretching out so few topics across the midterm by making some of the questions either really specific and hard or by asking us things we never talked about in class. A lot of his test questions are very long and wordy which was a little difficult with the time limit, I ended up submitting 1 minute before the deadline for both tests. Other than my complaints about his time management, I liked his teaching style and the class was always interesting. He also made sure to make himself available outside of class to talk about the midterm which I appreciated. Besides a midterm and a final we had to do 3 thought papers, each 3 pages long. The topics were pretty interesting and they were graded leniently, basically no one got less than 9/10 if you did the work. Overall I would recommend this class especially if you are interested in law but it was disappointing to me that we didn’t get to cover a bunch of interesting topics because he allowed way too much participation.

I learned a lot from this class about law, and I felt like Huppin was a pretty straightforward lecturer who tried hard to make lecture engaging. He seems really serious at first, but you'll see his chill side if you go to office hours. Additionally, he remembers peoples name, which I feel like makes a big difference.

Your grade is comprised of 2 Papers (each 10%-which really help buffer your grade) and a midterm (40%) and final (40%). The papers were fun to write, and I feel like they were graded fairly. The midterm was a little difficult for me, but that's because I had 4 other finals in one week, so I wasn't able to devote as much time to studying as I needed to. The final ended up being online because of COVID-19, and it was exactly like the midterm in terms of the types of questions.

The readings need to be completed if you want to get an A because he asks a lot of multiple choice questions from them. The reading is manageable, but if you get behind one week, it'll suck catching up. Even if you do the readings, if you don't understand how to apply the laws, you'll probably get a B. Also, he mentions things in lecture that aren't on his slides that end up on the test, so I definitely recommend showing up and taking detailed notes.

I do think he slightly curves the class, which brought me from an A- to an A, which I am extremely appreciative of. Overall, if you're up to put in some work, I would definitely recommend this class.

Given that it was my first quarter at UCLA and the class was about the evolution of mass media images, I had the highest of hopes entering this course because I was very interested in what it had to offer. I was expecting a communication class to be very engaging and have opportunities for cool assignments pertaining to the topics we are studying; I was in for a rude awakening. Every class felt like groundhog day with him entering wearing the same grey t-shirt and reading off of the slides in a very monotoned voice. I feel like I learned more about his life and accomplishments more than I did of the class material. He went to UCLA for undergrad, went to Stanford to pursue a law degree, obtained a doctorate in psychology and has been teaching for 20 years; that is only a small handful of the many things he shared about himself. Meanwhile, I can’t tell you something I learned in the class that I didn’t already know before. There are no homework assignments, but you are graded on a midterm, final, and a couple of assignments that are supposed to help bring your grade up since the tests are 40% of your grade. You have to do really well on the tests or you are basically screwed since there are no extra credit opportunities. Unfortunately, I studied really hard for both tests and went through the readings but only managed to get Cs on both of them, causing my grade to suffer. He is one of those professors who will add items on the test that were never covered in either lectures or readings which was really annoying. Rather than identify areas that he may need to improve on, he proceeds to make students feel like we are the problem and that we only receive the grades we truly earned. He is very egotistical and acts as though life is the same as it was 20+ years ago and that any problem that young people face is because of our ignorance. Every class just felt like an annoyingly long lecture from your dad about how young people now are too sensitive and that life wasn’t like this way back in the day. Not to mention that if you raise your hand in the class to ask a question or answer him, he proceeds to talk over students before they even finish because he’s just so impatient. Yet, this guy wonders why nobody shows up to his office hours. I was lucky to end the class with the grade I received because I did not have the greatest expectations for my GPA. I honestly regret choosing this elective because I was more stressed about this class than I was for my actual major classes, which I managed to receive As for. He’s probably going to read these and scoff but you know what, the truth hurts, and the truth is that he is just not a good professor and lacks the self reflection skills he desperately needs. I would avoid taking any class of his if you can; save yourself the stress.