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Anthony Yates
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Spring 2025 - The reviews are so harsh omg. Out of all the Linguistics GEs out there, this class is a GEM. Take it take it take it if you need that requirement. Professor Yates is a great, funny lecturer, and despite not being super interested in the material at first I found it super worthwhile. Sections are mandatory but interesting, and weekly HW takes less than 30 minutes. You can skip out on a lot of the readings, and the final is a project where you create your own language.
Spring 2025 - The reviews are so harsh omg. Out of all the Linguistics GEs out there, this class is a GEM. Take it take it take it if you need that requirement. Professor Yates is a great, funny lecturer, and despite not being super interested in the material at first I found it super worthwhile. Sections are mandatory but interesting, and weekly HW takes less than 30 minutes. You can skip out on a lot of the readings, and the final is a project where you create your own language.
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Spring 2026 - I took this class as a GE and I really liked it. The class covers writing systems from all over the world. There are weekly assignments which are ~10 multiple choice questions, and a "midterm" which is basically just a longer version of the weekly assignments (take home, unlimited time). The final project is a paper where you invent your own writing system and talk about the development, discovery, use, etc. It was really fun! I really recommend this class. I liked Professor Yates too; he was really excited about the content and his lectures were clear and easy to follow.
Spring 2026 - I took this class as a GE and I really liked it. The class covers writing systems from all over the world. There are weekly assignments which are ~10 multiple choice questions, and a "midterm" which is basically just a longer version of the weekly assignments (take home, unlimited time). The final project is a paper where you invent your own writing system and talk about the development, discovery, use, etc. It was really fun! I really recommend this class. I liked Professor Yates too; he was really excited about the content and his lectures were clear and easy to follow.
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