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Loving, Bill

Cumulative GPA: 3.44/4.00 with 9 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 3.56
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 3.44

Journalism Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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JOUR 203 Freshman Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 9:35 pm, Mar 3, 2013 Report Evaluation		Dr. Loving presents a lot of work for the class, but he has a very underlying sense of humor that makes the class entertaining.

JOUR 302 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 12:45 pm, Dec 3, 2012 Report Evaluation		Professor Loving has so much knowledge about law. His personal stories and experiences added to the class to make it more interesting. While there is no "homework", this class is more than likely the hardest out of the journalism required courses. Loving will bring in more than one student to "scare" you into studying. Listen to them! Find a study group as soon as possible. Break up the readings (there are about 20-40 pages for each class). Your grade is based off of 2 midterms and a final. They were all take home, but he will try to trick you otherwise (another studying scare tactic). Take notes on everything! These will hep you when you go to study later. The cases are more often than not, easy to read but harder to apply when given an example. Use your study group and go to his office hours. He is there to help you.

JOUR 203 Freshman Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 4:53 pm, Nov 27, 2012 Report Evaluation		Professor Loving overall is a very good professor. He seems intimidating at first, but really is just trying to help you. At the beginning of the year he tells you that you are supposed to write five or so stories during the quarter plus fifteen "blogs" which are just emails you send him with blurbs about how your news reporting and writing process is going. For our class he cut down the story count because of days he was out of town and was unable to look at drafts of our articles. If you take this class, MAKE SURE YOU START YOUR STORIES EARLY. Do not wait a month to start checking out your beats and get interviews. As soon as you know what your article is going to be about, go to professors' office hours and ask them for an interview. Its a lot easier than it seems. Just start early or you will regret it when you have two stories to finish with one week left in the quarter.

JOUR 402 Junior Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 10:49 pm, Mar 10, 2012 Report Evaluation		Why is there a freshman in 402?? Anyway, this was my third time having Loving as a professor, and he made ethics quite enjoyable. The class overall had a much different feel than law. You must participate, but it's really not that bad. Just state your opinion on an issue once or twice each class and you're probably good. There were four papers, plus a short presentation that went along with one of the papers. It was a pretty interesting class and the two hours usually went by pretty fast. You don't really need to buy the book imo, as long as you go to class and take good notes.

JOUR 402 Freshman Grade Earned: N/A Required (Major) 1:28 am, Mar 9, 2012 Report Evaluation		He didn't give a single test but had four essays that alone accounted for 75% of your grade. Definitely presented the material in an interesting way. Great to have discussions and see how our opinions changed through the quarter.

JOUR 203 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 4:36 pm, Feb 20, 2012 Report Evaluation		Professor Loving is definitely understanding of everybody's difficulties with writing articles. In JOUR 203 he is there the whole way to help his students be successful in his class. He was always willing to add extra office hours when our class needed more help. Now that I have moved on to more journalism classes I can tell he prepared me for what was next. great professor!

JOUR 302 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 8:03 pm, Dec 6, 2011 Report Evaluation		Mass media law with Loving was kinda intense. He knows a ton about law (he went to law school), so he's definitely qualified to teach the class. At times the class made me a little sleepy (having it at 8 am didn't help), but some of the cases we covered really were pretty interesting. The tests weren't as bad or scary as I expected, and they were all take home which was nice (otherwise they would have been super scary!). Just have a good understanding of the cases in the book and apply them to the tests. I had a small study group and we met a lot at the beginning of the quarter, but less and less as the quarter went on. We all still did fine though. There is a lot of reading. I kinda stopped reading by the end of the quarter, but I paid pretty good attention in class, so I knew what was important.



JOUR 302 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 10:00 pm, Nov 1, 2011 Report Evaluation		Loving is a great Law teacher. It is a really tough class- probably one of the toughest classes I have takes at Poly. But, I learned a lot in it. It is taught exactly like a law class you would take at law school. I spent hours working on the readings and in study group because of all the work he demanded of us, but boy did it pay off. I still know what I am talking about 6 months later. There are 3 midterms and a ton of reading every week. Make sure you form a study group like he suggests, it really helped me understand the laws.

JOUR 203 Freshman Grade Earned: C Required (Major) 10:48 pm, Mar 13, 2011 Report Evaluation		Prof Loving is a great professor who really teaches you how to write. At the beginning of the class, I was really bad but by the end I was much improved. He has a very... interesting personality. He can be intimidating and at times self righteous, but he is really good. He also has a unique sense of humor. Overall a good guy just difficult to deal with at times. For his class, Loving has you write 7 stories in the quarter and you have to go through the drafting process so you have to go through many drafts before you can turn in your final draft. It gets extremely frustrating and time consuming. I wanted to change majors several points during the quarter, but in the end it is worth it. I learned a lot more than I would have from other teachers and am not only a proficient writer but also a proficient reporter too (he has you both write a lot and do a lot of interviews so you are getting valuable experience from day 1). Overall, I recommend Loving, especially when compared to the other 203 teacher in the Journalism department.

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