This professor/class absolutely butchers Linguistics. Severe amounts of points are taken off for minor deviations from the professor's internal answer key, even if the deviation is insignificant (i.e., gave the right answer but didn't use a specific keyword, even if that keyword was mentioned in the previous sentence and is implied? points off).

Literally, nobody I have ever known has had more problems with Ling1 than the people in this course. They ruin the course and the subject itself by making it so vague and impossible to succeed.

You can fail a quiz for missing 2 out of 10 because the questions are multiple parts and if you miss even just one of the parts, the maximum points you can get for the question is 3.33 out of 10.

This course ruined my winter quarter without a doubt

So I took Ling. 1 online and I regret it. This class is so conceptual that you literally don't know which one of the options is the right answer since they all look the same. The vagueness is real so beware. I believe that they make this class harder that what it seems. My friend took Ling. 1 online with another professor, but she said it was super easy.