Bozzone is an amazing professor! I would take her again if I could; you should take her class!

I can't comment on the professor since it was an online class but be warned the quizes are diffcult to get even an 80%. You get 10 questions based on the lecture but you can only get one wrong to get a B. Honestly, I regret taking this class. Avoid if you can

I took this class online so I actually never met the professor. The class involved online lectures (usually 2-3 hours of lecture per week), a 10 question quiz due every Thursday, and two 150 word short answers due every Friday. You also will have discussion once a week which I highly encourage you to attend. The class was basically taught by the TAs so your short answer and essay grades just depended on how tough of a grader your TA was. Make sure you have your TA skim your final paper before you turn it in and don't worry about the final because it's extremely easy (I got 102% on mine and barely studied). Ultimately, I thought this class was really interesting.

I took Ling 1 online and had no interaction with Bozzone. It's online except for in person weekly discussions with your TA and in person final. The lectures are recorded by Professor Schuch, who is very knowledgable and clear with the material. I also found the lecture very entertaining and interesting. The work load is pretty easy. There's weekly quizzes where the answers can be easily found in the lectures/course reader and there's weekly "essays" which are straight forward short answer questions.

There are only ~2 hours of lectures to watch per week at your own pace, along with one mandatory discussion. If you actually watch the lecture videos (which you should anyways), 75% percent of the quiz answers are given almost word for word, with only 2 or 3 questions requiring independent analysis.
Essays are extremely basic questions(again if you watched the lectures), 300 words total. These took probably 30 minutes a week. 3/10 quiz grades are dropped. 2/10 essay grades are dropped. 2/10 discussion attendances are dropped. With this lenient of a grading system, I'm not quite sure what the other reviewers are complaining about

I got an A+ in this class, but I do agree with many other reviewers that that the questions on the quizzes/essays were sometimes vague. I spent hours figuring out the right answers. Yes, some of the answers were literally quoted in the lectures but there were also at least 1-2 questions each week that were super confusing and time-consuming. Is it really necessary to make the quiz that nitpicky? Isn't the point to see that the students understand the main concepts that are taught in lecture? Just make the quizzes/essays worth less of the total grade if the reason for the vagueness is to avoid "easiness" because this was just frustrating and discouraging to do each week That's just my suggestion. Anyway, the final was actually surprisingly easy considering how hard the quizzes were and you got extra credit opportunities on it too.

SHE IS BAD. DO NOT TAKE HER UNLESS YOU WANT TERRIBLE QUIZ GRADE. YOU WILL FAIL UNLESS YOU GET A GOOD TA AND TA IS LENIENT ON THE ESSAY.

It's difficult to comment on Dr. Bozzone herself because we never see her since the class is almost entirely on-line. However, the quizzes and essays we are graded on are actually really difficult and discussions are not really helpful in clarifying the material.

To give you an idea: there are 10 quizzes throughout the quarter. Each quiz is based on the material you learn that week (i.e. online lectures). These 10 point quizzes are HARD. I did well on most of them but not without spending 1-2 hours meticulously checking my answers, and even then I had no idea if my answers were right because the questions and answer choices were so f'in' vague. The essays are much more doable in my opinion, and you get one of those a week as well. I spent roughly 1-2 hours on them too. The grading rubric is very nit-picky for these.

The final paper is pretty easy in my opinion, but then again we haven't gotten them graded so it could turn out to be great or terrible. Overall, the workload is manageable, but the grading is so unpredictable that even if you know the material well you could potentially fail the class.

Any review prior to the final exam (March 22nd) should be changed. Because I just changed my review on March 27th.
- She made the final exam extremely easy on us (95% were repeated questions from the online quizzes/essays)
- She knew how vague her quizzes and essays were and she even dropped an extra quiz because of these bruinwalk reviews and complaints, I believe.
- She didn't teach the class but she was knowledgeable enough to cover the same materials.
- Online material was hard to grasp because it was so vague but the grading system was extremely lenient.

Prof. Bozzone is very dedicated and actually wants to see her students do well. She is always open to ask questions and is very helpful during and outside of office hours. The quizzes (which are not timed so you can discuss them in groups in your own time) and essays are pretty easy although a few questions are sometimes a bit tricky and your answers need to be really specific. The online course is pretty practical because you can watch the videos whenever works for your schedule. As long as you actually put some time and effort into this class I don't see why it should be that hard. Tip: make groups and work on quizzes/essays together.