ANTHRO M150
Language in Culture
Description: (Same as Linguistics M146.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; fieldwork, two hours. Requisite: course 4 or Linguistics 20. Study of language as aspect of culture; relation of habitual thought and behavior to language; and language and classification of experience. Holistic approach to study of language, with emphasis on relationship of linguistic anthropology to fields of biological, cultural, and social anthropology, as well as archaeology. (Core course for linguistics field.) P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Winter 2024 - If you're looking for a course to fulfill the linguistic anthro requirement, or if you're just looking for an elective I definitely reccomend this course. The class consists of 5 "participation" assignments, 5 annotation assignments and a final group project. The participation assignments are super easy since they can be pretty much anything, including lecture notes, questions about the readings or lectures, or even drawings that are relevent to the class topics; you also have until the end of the quarter to turn them in since they don't have a hard deadline. For the annotation assignments, each one requires 3 annotations for the assigned reading, around 200 words per annotation posted and Perusall will automatically give you full credit. The final project makes up a majority of your grade since it has multiple components to it that you work on throughout the quarter, each worth like 10-15%, but everything is turned in as a group so that makes it a lot easier. You're pretty much allowed to choose any topic you want as long as its relevant to the class. If you have a good group of people (you are allowed to choose your own group members) where everyone contributes, you're almost guaranteed an A.
Winter 2024 - If you're looking for a course to fulfill the linguistic anthro requirement, or if you're just looking for an elective I definitely reccomend this course. The class consists of 5 "participation" assignments, 5 annotation assignments and a final group project. The participation assignments are super easy since they can be pretty much anything, including lecture notes, questions about the readings or lectures, or even drawings that are relevent to the class topics; you also have until the end of the quarter to turn them in since they don't have a hard deadline. For the annotation assignments, each one requires 3 annotations for the assigned reading, around 200 words per annotation posted and Perusall will automatically give you full credit. The final project makes up a majority of your grade since it has multiple components to it that you work on throughout the quarter, each worth like 10-15%, but everything is turned in as a group so that makes it a lot easier. You're pretty much allowed to choose any topic you want as long as its relevant to the class. If you have a good group of people (you are allowed to choose your own group members) where everyone contributes, you're almost guaranteed an A.
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Don't let her seemingly unorganized teaching style deter you from taking the class--she does a great job exposing students to what the field of Linguistic Anthropology has to offer...I left the class more interested in the field of Linguistic Anthropology than before I took it. The material is quite interesting. As long as you do the readings (especially the articles) and fill out the studyguides she gives, you'll ace the final. She really sets everything up so that you can slam-dunk the tests. Very concerned about student learning, good about making herself available in office hours. And a very sweet person :)
Don't let her seemingly unorganized teaching style deter you from taking the class--she does a great job exposing students to what the field of Linguistic Anthropology has to offer...I left the class more interested in the field of Linguistic Anthropology than before I took it. The material is quite interesting. As long as you do the readings (especially the articles) and fill out the studyguides she gives, you'll ace the final. She really sets everything up so that you can slam-dunk the tests. Very concerned about student learning, good about making herself available in office hours. And a very sweet person :)
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