Dr. Loncke is an absolute sweetheart and definitely made lecture worth looking forward to at the end of long days. He is now retired, however, so I do not know what will happen in terms of the future of this course and any description given here may not be accurate for a future instructor’s variation.
I took EDHS 4030 as a Linguistics major and found the course to be both relatively easy to manage and helpful for understanding the foundations of speech production. The first third of the course was spent building up an understanding of acoustics, which tended to be tricky given the physics necessary to grasp the concepts. The second third focused more on speech production, that is the basics of the anatomy needed for speech and classification of sounds. The final third spent a bit of time on hearing and processing before looking at various applications and other non-speech sounds created by humans (like crying and laughing).
Assignment-wise, the course was very easy to manage. Two midterms and a final that are all multiple choice questions and non-cumulative, so each exam only explicitly covers material starting the lecture after the last exam. There were also five short labs intended to help visualize some of the more abstract concepts (like sound waves) and an in-class assisted work session spent manipulating the software PRAAT. There were also no assigned readings before each class, although supplementary materials were available. Each lecture did have a few in-class multiple choice questions done with a clicker, however Loncke intentionally set them up so that you can get every point by just paying attention.
Do note that there is a video project you will have to complete during the second half of the semester, but given that you are just explaining one of the course concepts in an educational video and the groups tend to have around six people there generally isn’t much to worry about. My group members were fantastic and the only issue we ran into was that as I am in the College and they were all in the Ed School, our schedules were not the most compatible for recording. We still managed to work everything out, though, so there isn’t anything to fear when coming in.
Overall, very fun and very easy to manage.

THIS CLASS WAS AWESOME. Dr. Loncke is genuinely so kind and cares about his students so much. The TAs were awesome too and extremely helpful in person and/or over email. There is no homework besides an easy group project at the end of the semester. We had 5 "in-person labs" that took 10 minutes each with simple quizzes that you could do and get checked by the TAs right after. You should go to class almost every time, as the PollEverywhere questions are 25% of your grade, but they are very easy. If you have to miss a class, you can do a makeup video assignment. Class was engaging and interesting, and you can tell Dr. Loncke loves getting to know his students. Exams were pretty easy, you just have to study all of the slides and attend the review class, but other than that they really aren't bad if you put in a good amount of study time. Overall, as a first year who was scared to take a 4,000 level class, I couldn't have had a better experience in Speech and Hearing Science. It's an easy A but also super interesting and useful information.

I LOVE Professor Loncke!! He is so sweet and he is such a good teacher! I highly recommend this class since it is also really interesting. It is not hard at all. Just go to lectures consistently to keep up with the information! #tCFS24

Easy class with a chill professor! Loncke would change deadlines and host exam review sessions if students asked. Most days he’d also end class early. The textbook was free but we were never assigned anything to read. Powerpoint slides were available on Canvas but sometimes a few slides were added or deleted and weren’t exactly the same as during lecture. If you’re sick and can’t go to class he’ll give you a recorded version of the day’s lecture with participation questions via Canvas. There are three exams, which are all multiple choice. If you do well on the practice tests and understand what he covers in the review sessions, you’ll be good on the tests. You have 5 labs each week at the start of the semester and complete a quiz afterwards (the labs are like 5 minutes long and the quizzes are short). There’s also a group project where you make a 5 minute informational video, which takes some time but isn’t too hard if you start early and everyone does their part. The content gets easier near the end of the semester, but overall the class is pretty easy.

This class is super easy and Professor Loncke is so sweet. I also took his Psycholinguistics and Communication course in the Fall, and I will say that I did enjoy that one a little bit better. This course is similar in structure, but the group work is definitely a bit forced. Professor Loncke also had a co-instructor this semester (I'm assuming it was the first time they tried this because it was kind of a hot mess). The other Professor was in charge of this weird coding thing that really had nothing to do with the rest of the course and had no impact on our grade. It was just a weird few weeks. The rest of the course is fairly simple, a group project, a midterm, an online assignment, and a final. I ended up with an A and never really paid attention.

Compared to my bio classes, this was an easy A. Even though it was an easy A I still learned a lot in this class and enjoyed coming to lecture. Dr. Loncke is also the cutest old guy and plays funny music at the beginning of the lecture. Highly recommend.

This class is really easy and mostly revolves around group projects. If you do really well on the projects, you will be guaranteed an A! Also most of the notes are online and I would highly recommend just going off of the slides he provides. Definitely take this class since it's an easy way to fulfill the linguistic requirement of cog sci.