Please keep in mind that I took this course during the time of COVID-19 so it was all virtual. Lectures were all pre-recorded so you could watch them on your own time. No textbook is required, but there are some assigned pdf readings for some weeks. There were ten assignments (one for each week) and no midterms or finals. Some of the assignments were one-page reports just showing that you can use Praat (the program you use throughout the course) and others were a short quiz. Simple stuff, though some concepts are a bit confusing, however professor is more than willing to help! Easy and fun class, highly recommend!

This class touches on various developmental stages of communication and focuses on different topics each week (something I really enjoyed) such as media, culture, vocalizations, etc. The weekly writing assignments are completely doable (only 400 words) and easy if you just attend class. She posts here power points on CCLE but expands more on confusing topics if you actually attend lecture - super helpful! I recommend this class to anyone considering studying speech and language pathology in the future. I am a ling major and found this class to be super interesting and helpful despite it not being technically a linguistics course.

Warlaumont definitely means well, but she gets sidetracked pretty easily and would commonly not get through her lecture material. For that reason, it wasn't entirely necessary to go to lecture, just do the weekly reading and gloss at the slides, and the weekly assignment was quite straightforward. I would also keep in mind that the TA graded more leniently than Warlaumont when it came to the assignment

This course was extremely easy! The lectures are podcasted and attached to the lecture slides. She doesn't require a textbook and sends you the required text readings (which are doable). She has weekly quizzes which are due at the end of the quarter, so you're able to take them whenever you can. There's no midterm or final, just an essay describing what you've learned in the class and how you've applied to your life. She is also a very sweet professor and cares for her students.

This class was an easy A. The professor is very lenient and assignments are pretty straightforward. The class consists of weekly quizzes, so a total of 9 for the quarter, 10 discussion posts, and a short research paper for the final. Quizzes are multiple choice, open book, and have no time limit. She also provides "make-up" assignments that are optional and help you gain back points you lost on the quizzes. The lectures are a little slow, but you need to watch them to do well on the quizzes. Discussion posts are on any topic you want and have no word count. The short paper is 1 page on a topic you like and very doable. Overall, this class is a breeze.

In this class, you learn about how to use Praat which I did not know but it was not that hard. At first, it seemed hard but I learned pretty quickly. She answers emails in a timely manner and is very helpful when it comes to explaining the material. I recommend taking her class.

Professor Warlamount is great. She's very sweet, easily accessible if you need help, and very understanding. Some of her quiz questions can be a bit tricky so make sure you really pay attention to the lectures and exactly what she's asking. No books were required, all materials were provided.

I loved Professor Warlaumont. She is so sweet and very understanding of students during this time (took this class during COVID). Not to mention, she is very well-versed in this subject because she has endured in many research papers/projects that you will get to read in this class. I really wish I got to take this class in-person because she seems like such a kind soul.

Your grade is made up of 9 quizzes worth 9% of your final grade (1 quiz each week). Quizzes are untimed and can be completed at your own pace. And if you mess up on your quiz, you are able to submit quiz corrections with the explanation why you got it wrong, and she will give points back to you.
Week 10 there was a short, 1 page research paper (worth 9% of your final grade) on a topic of your choice, but you'll basically get full credit for completing all guidelines.
The last 10% of your grade is participation, so you have to post 10 comments/posts/reactions/words of affirmation on the discussion board. It can be as short or as long as you want it to be, but most people write 3-4 sentences each.

All lectures were pre-recorded and uploaded ahead of the week. I finished this class with a 100% in my grade because of how favorable her grading scheme was, but I was also very interested in every topic that we learned. Such a great class. I will definitely take more classes with Anne in the future.

I took Dr. Warlaumont’s Communication Development course in Fall 2020 when it was online. The course consisted of weekly assessments in the form of open-book quizzes and participation in an online discussion forum. The lecturers were asynchronous and were about an hour long, two days a week. I found that taking detailed notes helped me with the quizzes since they could ask really specific questions from what was said in lecture. Toward the last half of the class, she also accommodated us by allowing us to make up our missed quiz points through assignments where we had to explain why we had gotten a question wrong. This was actually very helpful for me in reviewing and fully grasping the materials. Although the content was framed in a more scientific and linguistic way than I had thought, it was still really interesting and made me think about the way infants communicate in a way I never have before. For the last week, instead of a quiz, you have to write a short research paper on a class-related topic of your choice. Our TA, Jessica Shropshire, was great and available to meet with us. Overall, Dr. Warlaumont seemed really personable in the lecturers and discussion forums, and I found the class to be really manageable because of its asynchronous format.

Fantastic professor and fantastic course materials! Highly recommend! It includes weekly quizzes and participation via discussion board.