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Jessica Rett
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Summer 2024 - overall, a super easy summer asynchronous class. the lectures were quite long but interesting. I def think if I took this irl it would've been a lot harder because the phonetic alphabet stuff can be tricky to learn without using external tools. the final paper was also fun to write. you could pick any celebrity you wanted to and analyze their speech patterns/phonetic alphabet they use to say words. my TA was very nice and was a lenient grader. I have no complaints about this class. easy A!
Summer 2024 - overall, a super easy summer asynchronous class. the lectures were quite long but interesting. I def think if I took this irl it would've been a lot harder because the phonetic alphabet stuff can be tricky to learn without using external tools. the final paper was also fun to write. you could pick any celebrity you wanted to and analyze their speech patterns/phonetic alphabet they use to say words. my TA was very nice and was a lenient grader. I have no complaints about this class. easy A!
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LING 20: I'm taking this class because I have to for a G.E. I was mildly interested at the beginning of the course, but Rett is such a terrible teacher, I can say I hate linguistics. She doesn't teach and she has alienated me from linguistics such that I am pass/no-passing this class and don't really give a shit about anything I learn. This is rare because I take my education seriously and have a high GPA. But when it comes to this class, I just can't care any less. I wouldn't say she's the worst professor on campus, but there's something about her that makes me - again - not give a shit about linguistics.
LING 20: I'm taking this class because I have to for a G.E. I was mildly interested at the beginning of the course, but Rett is such a terrible teacher, I can say I hate linguistics. She doesn't teach and she has alienated me from linguistics such that I am pass/no-passing this class and don't really give a shit about anything I learn. This is rare because I take my education seriously and have a high GPA. But when it comes to this class, I just can't care any less. I wouldn't say she's the worst professor on campus, but there's something about her that makes me - again - not give a shit about linguistics.
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I'm a little surprised by the bad reviews, she wasn't bad at all. The lectures were pretty slow and she always took the time to answer every student's questions (even annoying ones). I actually really enjoyed her as a professor, she tried to make the class interactive. I've heard a lot of bad things about this course and if you're reading these reviews thinking it's not for you, I definitely encourage you to just try the class for yourself. I'm glad I went into the class not knowing anything because I came into the class not expecting it to be terrible and it turned out to be so interesting that I decided to double-major in Ling. I will say that while the homework and quizzes were do-able, the final was ridic. But it was open book and open note. My TA was pretty much useless, by the way.
I'm a little surprised by the bad reviews, she wasn't bad at all. The lectures were pretty slow and she always took the time to answer every student's questions (even annoying ones). I actually really enjoyed her as a professor, she tried to make the class interactive. I've heard a lot of bad things about this course and if you're reading these reviews thinking it's not for you, I definitely encourage you to just try the class for yourself. I'm glad I went into the class not knowing anything because I came into the class not expecting it to be terrible and it turned out to be so interesting that I decided to double-major in Ling. I will say that while the homework and quizzes were do-able, the final was ridic. But it was open book and open note. My TA was pretty much useless, by the way.
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