This is not an easy GE!!! I would not recommend taking this class unless you are very interested in linguistics. I had zero interest in the subject which made the class extremely boring to me. The final was very difficult.

Do not take this Professor. She has over 80 lecture slides that are of no use. The TAs say that if you plan on taking upper ling courses that this class does not teach you. You’re better off learning on YouTube or from a textbook. The slides she has are contradictory. When I asked the TAs what I should be following, I simply got an I don’t know response.

The homework is straightforward but the TA I had docked points off for small mistakes while other TAs gave full credit. When I brought this to the attention of the professor she said to email my TA. The issue was not resolved with the TA and that’s why I reached out to the professor…
Later on in class I heard the professor tell my TA to just give me an extra point and call it a day.

The exams are also nonexistent until the day of the exam. When asked what we should study she laughed and said she doesn’t know because the exam doesn’t exist yet. There’s no communication between the TAs and the professor. She says that the TAs will be reviewing material during discussion and they wouldn’t be. You would just sign in and answer the question on the board.

Any time I’d ask her a question she would address it in class instead of just replying with a simple yes or no through email. This class was honestly a waste of time. The class is also not recorded. I would attend every single lecture and every single one she would walk up to the screen, talk for one minute and go back to the podium, wait for 5 minutes, and move on to the next slide. She did this for all 80ish slides. I wish another professor was available during the fall quarter when I took her class.

I had a question about how my final was graded and instead of getting a response she sent out an email to all the students stating that she posted the final grades and to reach out to her during the next quarter. I mean… is it that hard to answer a question?

Again, she does not communicate, the TAs are just as lost as the professor, and nobody knows what’s going on in the class.

Prof Sharvit was her first time teaching this class for this quarter because she specializes in semantics. How the lecture goes is she has slides to lecture on and she posts them afterwards. There was a time in the middle of the quarter where one of the students asked if she could post the slides beforehand; the solution was that she posted a pre-info slides without the answers in them.
As for the exams, there are 2 take homes: midterm and a final. BEWARE, the final exam can be difficult (5 questions). The midterm on the other hand was okay imo. You get to have 2 full days to finish them, typically from monday to wednesday, so start the exam as early as possible and ask clarifying questions if needed during office hours. Here are the breakdown for the assignments:
6 Quizzes (u can miss 2 quizzes): 12%
6 Homeworks: 30%
1 Midterm: 24%
1 Final: 34%
Anyways, Sharvit can be difficult but the topics overall is very fun and enjoyable; she's also kind and nice :D