[stoniesg]

Is it worth it to buy the Communications 1A03 textbooks?

[Phantom]

Who's your prof?

[shes-a-diva*]

No, i never opened my textbooks once, got straight 90's on every assignment and guessed every question on the exam and did not even study my notes and ended up with a C+ in the course... Unless you really want a high mark I wouldn't bother at all, they're over priced and Sevigny goes over almost everything in lecture that's in the readings

[kschwab]

If you want to save money, don't buy Intro to Comm. it is just a collection of articles you can find online. I would buy the other textbook though, Understanding Human Communcation - although the concepts are easy, they are essential to the course.

[chryslad]

I took communications 1A03 with Hijri, didn't buy any of the textbooks, and got an 11 in the course. I don't buy textbooks now unless they indicate in the course outline that they expect textbook material to be included in essays, and have a fairly high average. It's completely duable, especially if you take really thorough notes.

[burkedv]

I took the course and found it really valuable to buy the textbook, a lot of the exam questions were based on elaborations from the lectures that were in the textbook