Dr. Ankowski's class is awesome. Her class was so worth getting up extremely early for. Not only is she an excellent lecturer but her slides are awesome too. I like the fact that she posts them ahead of time so we could writes notes on them or follow her clearly during lecture. The book she chose is pretty straight forward. Her system of grading is fair and she allows for 4 extra credits if you volunteer for psych lab which was a huge help in the end! This class is one of the very few classes I was sad had to come to an end! She passionate about the subject and it overflows to her students!

I enjoyed this class more than I thought I would. I expected Language Development to be a somewhat dry or boring topic, but Professor Ankowski made it interesting and applicable to real life. The class consisted of two non-cumulative exams (no final) and 6 short papers (350-450 words). Extra credit was given for participating in psychology studies. No participation or attendance grades. The exams were all multiple-choice questions and I found them to be straight-forward and easy, if you studied. She asks some questions on material that is in the textbook but not covered in lectures, so reading the textbook before exams is necessary to get those questions correct. The short papers were also pretty easy - they usually asked you to reflect on or connect concepts from the textbook to your own life. I would definitely recommend this class and this professor.

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!