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Andrea Zukowski HONR218L Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/24/2018	The class was interesting and there was not too much homework. She gave extra credit on most of the homeworks as well as the final exam.
Juan Uriagereka HONR218L Expecting an A Anonymous 04/25/2018	Juan is probably one of the smartest people I have ever had lecture me. At times, the lecture can be pretty confusing, but he is a wonderful person with an astonishingly wide breadth of knowledge and is great at leading discussions. He's pretty funny too.
Valentine Hacquard HONR218L Expecting an A OtG 03/19/2012	Hacquard gave a capable and comprehensive survey of the field, with thorough notes. However, her lectures were often slow and a bit monotonous, and the TA was somewhat incomprehensible. Don't be fooled: HONR218L is an introduction to linguistics. If that's what you're looking for, it should be a fine class; otherwise, you're probably signing up for the wrong one.
Valentine Hacquard HONR218L Expecting an A Sam Blitzstein 04/18/2010	I wasn't going to review this until I saw the other two biased reviews, and wanted to make sure the alternate viewpoint could be heard. Coming from someone who knew nothing about linguistics prior to taking this class, after taking it I've now actually declared linguistics as a double major. Sometimes you don't know you like something until you try it, and for me, that's how it was with linguistics. How do you know if you'd like linguistics, though? As the other reviewers said, if you think this class is going to be a psycholinguistics/cognitive linguistics course, you'll probably be disappointed in 3/4 of the class material. The problem is that as interesting as psycholinguistics is, without a background in general linguistics study you'll be completely lost and unable to really learn much. We do spend a good amount of time learning the things others have mentioned (and Dr. Hacquard herself does research here into those kinds of things), but if you're hard-set on only learning those things and not any intro linguistics, you'd probably be better off looking for something else. So if you are interested in those sorts of things, and come in with an open mind, you can really get a lot out of this class. You'll learn more than you will in the general intro linguistics class, in an honors-type classroom setting, and once you have some background, you'll get into those more advanced linguistics topics too. I found the grading very fair, the exams not easy but again, fairly curved, and lectures compelling - she gives out lecture slides that will ensure you don't have to worry the whole time about taking notes, but you definitely still need to listen because the slides are really just overviews of the lectures themselves. Plus, an added bonus- if you do find yourself interested in linguistics enough to pursue a major or minor, this class counts as the first class necessary for either.
Valentine Hacquard HONR218L Expecting an A Anonymous 05/13/2009	This class was not enjoyable at all. I was interested in how children acquire language and what I basically got was an intro linguistics class, which was not what I bargained for. The lectures were her reading aloud from a packet given to us; as if we couldn't read it ourselves. The information was confusing and very difficult to piece together. The exams were VERY hard, but they are curved, along with the other class grades. Overall, an extremely boring class, unless you're actually into linguistics.
Valentine Hacquard HONR218L Anonymous 04/22/2009	I did not enjoy this class. I expected it to be much more about relating language to the mind...the psychology behind acquiring it, differences between species, etc. However, it mostly focused on the linguistic aspect, which did not interest me. The lectures were pretty boring and I did not like her teaching style at all.
Andrea Zukowski HONR218L Expecting a C Anonymous 12/11/2007	I thought I paid attention pretty well in the class but my grade says otherwise. The class was boring and even though the material was interesting (sometimes) the overall class wasn't that great. On any given day there were at least 4 of my classmates catching up on some REM sleep.
Andrea Zukowski HONR218L Anonymous 11/02/2007	She's very strange and pretty boring

Andrea Zukowski
HONR218L

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
12/24/2018

The class was interesting and there was not too much homework. She gave extra credit on most of the homeworks as well as the final exam.

Juan Uriagereka
HONR218L

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/25/2018

Juan is probably one of the smartest people I have ever had lecture me. At times, the lecture can be pretty confusing, but he is a wonderful person with an astonishingly wide breadth of knowledge and is great at leading discussions. He's pretty funny too.

Valentine Hacquard
HONR218L

Expecting an A
OtG
03/19/2012

Hacquard gave a capable and comprehensive survey of the field, with thorough notes. However, her lectures were often slow and a bit monotonous, and the TA was somewhat incomprehensible. Don't be fooled: HONR218L is an introduction to linguistics. If that's what you're looking for, it should be a fine class; otherwise, you're probably signing up for the wrong one.

Valentine Hacquard
HONR218L

Expecting an A
Sam Blitzstein
04/18/2010

I wasn't going to review this until I saw the other two biased reviews, and wanted to make sure the alternate viewpoint could be heard. Coming from someone who knew nothing about linguistics prior to taking this class, after taking it I've now actually declared linguistics as a double major. Sometimes you don't know you like something until you try it, and for me, that's how it was with linguistics. How do you know if you'd like linguistics, though? As the other reviewers said, if you think this class is going to be a psycholinguistics/cognitive linguistics course, you'll probably be disappointed in 3/4 of the class material. The problem is that as interesting as psycholinguistics is, without a background in general linguistics study you'll be completely lost and unable to really learn much. We do spend a good amount of time learning the things others have mentioned (and Dr. Hacquard herself does research here into those kinds of things), but if you're hard-set on only learning those things and not any intro linguistics, you'd probably be better off looking for something else. So if you are interested in those sorts of things, and come in with an open mind, you can really get a lot out of this class. You'll learn more than you will in the general intro linguistics class, in an honors-type classroom setting, and once you have some background, you'll get into those more advanced linguistics topics too. I found the grading very fair, the exams not easy but again, fairly curved, and lectures compelling - she gives out lecture slides that will ensure you don't have to worry the whole time about taking notes, but you definitely still need to listen because the slides are really just overviews of the lectures themselves. Plus, an added bonus- if you do find yourself interested in linguistics enough to pursue a major or minor, this class counts as the first class necessary for either.

Valentine Hacquard
HONR218L

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/13/2009

This class was not enjoyable at all. I was interested in how children acquire language and what I basically got was an intro linguistics class, which was not what I bargained for. The lectures were her reading aloud from a packet given to us; as if we couldn't read it ourselves. The information was confusing and very difficult to piece together. The exams were VERY hard, but they are curved, along with the other class grades. Overall, an extremely boring class, unless you're actually into linguistics.

Valentine Hacquard
HONR218L

Anonymous
04/22/2009

I did not enjoy this class. I expected it to be much more about relating language to the mind...the psychology behind acquiring it, differences between species, etc. However, it mostly focused on the linguistic aspect, which did not interest me. The lectures were pretty boring and I did not like her teaching style at all.

Andrea Zukowski
HONR218L

Expecting a C
Anonymous
12/11/2007

I thought I paid attention pretty well in the class but my grade says otherwise. The class was boring and even though the material was interesting (sometimes) the overall class wasn't that great. On any given day there were at least 4 of my classmates catching up on some REM sleep.

Andrea Zukowski
HONR218L

Anonymous
11/02/2007

She's very strange and pretty boring

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