Ankowski is great! Her classes do not fill quickly because she usually teaches 8AMs - I took 133C and 133B with her and got As in both with minimal effort. She's very engaging and loves to talk to students/give advice. If I could take the rest of my major classes with her, I would.

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I am currently enrolled in this class and will update my review later. I just want to mention that those who are trying to sell you a PDF version of the MLA handbook are awful human beings because the MLA handbook is a free resource online now. You also don’t even need the actual handbook. In addition to that, the pdf for the textbook should be found online as well for free or for really cheap.

The teacher and TA was fine— the actual material covered in the class, though, was not at all useful. Grading rubrics for papers are arbitrary and the midterms cover memorized concepts. She was a good professor though and explained the material clearly.

The class was a ton of work, but the curve helps a lot.

professor A is a great lecturer, but this class honestly sucks. The material is pretty basic and easy but the TAs are instructed to grade so harshly on labs and the tests are super confusing

Exams and lecture material were not difficult as long as you read the textbook!

This class was very fun to learn and professor was great. There are two exams, final is not cumulative (each 100 points). There is also hw about every other week, totaling 6 for the quarter (8 per hw totaling 48, plus 2 extra if every hw is completed). Highly recommend!

Professor Ankowski is a really good lecturer! She is very passionate about the course content and she uses great examples, especially from her personal life, to illustrate the concepts of the course. This class just consists of two lectures each week, where you simply go into the lecture hall and listen to her speak. She will typically ask questions to start a discussion about whatever concept you’re talking about in lecture, but participation is not mandatory. Your grade is based off of two non-cumulative exams, and eight homework assignments. The exams are 50 multiple choice questions, and do contain a good amount of questions related to content discussed solely in the textbook, so it would be beneficial to at the very least skim through the book and make note of key terms. The homework assignments seem to be graded really easily, they are only 8 points, and just involve writing a 350-450 word response to an assigned prompt, some of which are really interesting, like “what lessons would you teach to parents and teachers about language development?”. Extra credit is offered: you can earn points by participating in up to two SONA studies and by submitting all of your homework assignments. Overall, I really enjoyed this class, and as someone who hated kids, this class really makes you see how intelligent they really are, even from utero, and it really illuminates how cool language development is for them.

Lectures were easy but the exams were SUPER HARD.