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SPCOM 225Interviewing

Faculty
Arts
Last listed
Spring 2023

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2023 and last ran in Spring 2023. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

When it ran

  1. W20
  2. F20
  3. W21
  4. S21
  5. F21
  6. W22
  7. F22
  8. W23
  9. S23

Ran in 9 terms, Winter 2020 to Spring 2023.

Theory and practice of interviewing. A workshop course which teaches theory, design, and presentation of interviews. Videotaping student exercises will enhance interview design and delivery, as well as listening and critical skills.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: (For Mathematics students) one of EMLS 101R, 102R, EMLS/ENGL 129R, ENGL 109, SPCOM 100, SPCOM 223

Reviewed on UW Flow

49% liked it79% easy52% useful

From 79 ratings and 23 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • This course is meh. Not that hard, but also not that useful. The entire course is basically 3 interviews that are different types. Prof Doyle is reasonable with extensions and is flexible, but also grades a bit tuff. if you want an easy 80+, this course is good. Other than that, you don't learn much and nor is it very interesting.

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  • It's a boring course tbh but its not too time consuming. Prof Doyle was nice to give an extension to everyone for the last assignment since people had a lot of final projects to submit. However, she's a hard marker.

    Apr 2022 · didn’t like it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

  • I think this is the best SPCOM course out there. You actually learn how to interview people, even though there's 3 essays that I don't like writing. Take it with Shira Schwartz, I got a decent mark (for SPCOM anyway) (86%), and she has helpful office hours every fortnight. She's also super sweet and will give extensions, just talk to her about it.

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  • If you want to choose this for the sole reason of improving your job interviewing skills, you'll probably be disappointed as I was. The three units were: Probing interviews (journalistic interviews), counselling interviews, and finally job/selection interviews in the last month. Most of the focus is on being the interviewer as opposed to the interviewee.

    Dec 2020 · didn’t like it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Don't take it with JENNIFER DOYLE.

    Apr 2020 · didn’t like it · 1 found this helpfulOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

54 posts and comments in 50 threads mention SPCOM 225, June 2015 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Winter 2024

2B course load 2 points, 9 comments

“How doable? CS 240 CS 241 CS 251 AMATH 250 STAT 231 ECON 371 It would be my first time doing 6 courses.”

u/JJJustinWang: “I did CS 240, CS 241, CS348, MATH 235, STAT231, SPCOM 225 during my 2B term. It was pretty intensive. I imagine your workload will be similar to mine.”

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Fall 2023

comst225 1 point, 1 comment

“guys uw flow deosnt have much info for this course. im looking for a bird communications cpurse for 1B honurs math thats easy workload. would comst 225 (interviewing) be a decent choice?”

u/jjjjskkkkan: “Try looking at spcom225 on uwflow. All spcom course codes were changed to comst last year”

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Winter 2023

Fall 2022

Prof having a meltdown 377 points, 151 comments

u/plutoniator: “average communications course instructor. Has a useless degree , teaches a class that people from other faculties are forced to take, unironically accuses someone else of going nowhere in life.”

u/plutoniator: “… The real fix is to put behavioral + technical interviews in PD1 (and not the nonsense in spcom225), and replace the communications courses with a proper technical communication course where you present a project from your CS/eng classes, or defend a proof in front of the class, …”

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Best communications course for 1B term 2 points, 5 comments

“ENGL 119 - Comment A SPCOMM 228 - Comment B SPCOMM 223 - Comment C Thanks for all the advice, I’ll treat each one of you a lazeez for your time to respond to this. REALLY APPRECIATED!!!”

u/Arsh0911: “Im taking SPCOM 225 Interviewing It will help me before my coop and it also satisfies the humanties breadth requirement for cs”

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Fall 2021

Depth in SPCOM 3 points, 3 comments

u/Impact-fail: “Hi, I'm a 1B CS student, I took SPCOM 223 fall and gonna take SPCOM 225 this winter, I have heard that you can do a 300 level spcom and completed the depth requirement. I can't seem to find any spcom that has 225 as prereq. …”

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Spring 2021

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