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This class is more a WGS (women/gender studies) class than a linguistics class. If you're interested in linguistics, pick another class. Attendance is taken through reading checks, the reading checks are often enough (and worth enough) to require reading every assignment for a single quiestion that you still might get wrong even if you read it. The readings are scientific journal type reports, very dry, very boring, very specific/useless for the class. Almost everything you will learn will come directly from lecture and discussion. The group paper is annoying. The second paper requires a 'study' to be done which was ridiculous for an intro class. Overall this class is a lot of reading but very little work otherwise. Three papers and some reading checks entail the whole class.
The class was definitely interesting, but I don't think the professor had a good handle on what level exactly her class is on. For a 2000 level course, we had to do research projects, one of which was a group project where we had to record and transcribe conversations and then write a paper on, and another individual project including field research and another paper. Overall the class is at least interesting, very much a gender studies class more than an anthropology class in my opinion.
If you are looking for a linguistics class that isn't very technical this class is for you - it was more of a gender studies course than anything else. I enjoyed the class, it wasn't too difficult and the Professor is nice. It's important to do the readings, but the class is pretty laid back. The group paper was rough but once you get through that the rest of the semester isn't bad. Good course if you are interested in gender studies and anthropology.
I took this course due to interest in linguistics, but it was much more of a gender studies course. It was still quite interesting though. The reading wasn't too bad.
The group paper was really annoying to work on. Both papers seemed to be graded really subjectively and expectations were really vague. Both papers were also difficult to relate to the actual content of the course, but the final was much more relevant to the material.
Discussion is an easy part of the grade.
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