Dr. Bell is so nice and accommodating! She really works hard to make sure her students learn the material, there was a lot of practice even during lecture (as should always be the case in a phonetics class). The material does get tricky, especially transcriptions and spectrograms, and skills-based grading might be a little confusing, but it really boosts your grade. Not to mention the fact that Dr. Bell always tried to engage with us on as personal a level as possible. Take her for any phonetics class, you won't regret it!

This class was TOUGH. It probably would've helped going to office hours, but the grading in this class was very nitpicky. She doesn't use slides, but she uses google docs. She does this thing called EMRN where you have 6 homeworks and then it's graded on that scale so if you get an E OR M its passing, but N gives you time to revise. She also drops one of the homeworks. So that was good, but her midterm average was a 72 and her final was very hard, but i think she curved it because average was an 85.