SPAN M35
Spanish, Portuguese, and Nature of Language
Description: (Same as Portuguese M35.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to language study within context of Romance languages, focusing on Spanish and Portuguese. Nature of language: structure, diversity, evolution, social and cultural settings, literary uses. Study of language and its relation to other areas of human knowledge. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Winter 2021 - Took this class as a GE and loved it! Even though it's not required, it's really helpful if you know Spanish or Portuguese since a lot of the examples are in Spanish/Portuguese. I wouldn't recommend taking the class if you don't have any background with either language, otherwise you might have a lot more difficulty learning the material, especially since you need to come up with examples on the hw in Spanish or Portuguese. We didn't need to write any papers, but there were weekly hw assignments that were graded on accuracy. Since the class was asynchronous, the lectures were all posted on CCLE. The lectures can be kind of lengthy though, and you had to watch them before Tuesday at 9am even if your discussion was on another day. For participation, there'd be a couple of questions embedded throughout the lectures that you had to answer and submit, but you as long as you try your best to answer most of them, it's okay if you leave some blank. The material for the most part was pretty straightforward, but I think the hardest concept in class was learning the IPA and phrase structure trees. Overall, I'd recommend taking this class!
Winter 2021 - Took this class as a GE and loved it! Even though it's not required, it's really helpful if you know Spanish or Portuguese since a lot of the examples are in Spanish/Portuguese. I wouldn't recommend taking the class if you don't have any background with either language, otherwise you might have a lot more difficulty learning the material, especially since you need to come up with examples on the hw in Spanish or Portuguese. We didn't need to write any papers, but there were weekly hw assignments that were graded on accuracy. Since the class was asynchronous, the lectures were all posted on CCLE. The lectures can be kind of lengthy though, and you had to watch them before Tuesday at 9am even if your discussion was on another day. For participation, there'd be a couple of questions embedded throughout the lectures that you had to answer and submit, but you as long as you try your best to answer most of them, it's okay if you leave some blank. The material for the most part was pretty straightforward, but I think the hardest concept in class was learning the IPA and phrase structure trees. Overall, I'd recommend taking this class!
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Classes taken: M35, M118A. So easy. I can't imagine anything easier than this. I took M35 and M118A in the summer and he went very slowly in both classes. Assignments were especially easy in the summer (I heard that during school year the TAs grade more harshly). Just do your homework (which he will give out most of the answers during class), study a little (don't overstudy) for the midterm and final. Final grade: A+ IN BOTH CLASSES!!!!! For some reason M118A is even easier than M35, and I thought M35 was one of the easiest classes I have taken already.
Classes taken: M35, M118A. So easy. I can't imagine anything easier than this. I took M35 and M118A in the summer and he went very slowly in both classes. Assignments were especially easy in the summer (I heard that during school year the TAs grade more harshly). Just do your homework (which he will give out most of the answers during class), study a little (don't overstudy) for the midterm and final. Final grade: A+ IN BOTH CLASSES!!!!! For some reason M118A is even easier than M35, and I thought M35 was one of the easiest classes I have taken already.
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