For me to be successful in this class I really only watched the lectures (on 2x speed) and showed up to section meetings. I never did any of the textbook readings, additional case study readings, or watched any of the required videos. The two analysis papers are extremely easy and the rubric literally tells you what to write. As long as you include everything the rubric says, you are guaranteed full credit. The first midterm was pretty chill, and I only had difficulty with the phonetics and learning IPA symbols. There were a few questions that I didn't know how to answer because I never touched the readings, but as long as you pay attention to lectures you can afford to miss a few questions. The final was a bit rougher than the midterm; however, I did not study for it which probably was not the smartest idea. I didn't do the 2 extra credit experiments, but I highly recommend for you to do them. They could make or break whether you are between an A- and an A because this Professor will not round your grade up.

Ok so before I took this class most of the reviews on here talked about how this class was a really good GE and an easy A. However after having actually taken the class I do slightly disagree. So, because this class was asynch I will say the workload is very light because there's almost never homework and you could speed the lectures up. The only issue that I have with the class was the difficulty of the tests. In order to get a good grade on the midterm and the final a lot is required of you, and you have to memorize alot of new information. This is an issue for me because I took this class as a GE and I ended up putting more work into memorizing the IPA than my premajor classes. However, there are other places to make up points if you dont do so well on the tests, because the 2 papers are very easy, but I was still surprised by the difficulty of the exams.

This class was pretty easy, there are 8 homework quizzes online that are open note that I think really help make sure that you understand all the material. The midterm and final are all multiple choice and there was definitely more than enough time to complete it, and I thought they were fairly easy as long as you studied. My discussion was online and you could join any of them, but honestly I didnt find them too helpful so I didn't go to them. There are also two papers that are super easy and kinda fun to write. Overall would recommend this class, it's pretty easy just make sure to stay on top of the work bc it sucked to try to cram multiple hour long lectures

This class was pretty average. It was asynchronous, so it felt like more work than it was-- lectures ranged from 2-3 hours per week, so I'd recommend setting a strict schedule on when you'll watch them and keep yourself accountable since its easy to fall behind. The workload was a little unnecessary, as I skipped most of the screenings and textbook readings and did fine. Definitely would have been fine without buying the textbook. The case studies were interesting but only 1-2 questions about them were on the midterm and final. Basically, you could probably get away with just watching the lectures, taking good notes, and maybe skimming the case studies. There were 2 analysis papers, both were a very easy A and really fun to write. Weekly homework quizzes that were a little long but not terrible. The phonetics unit was annoying since it briefly mentioned transcription but all of a sudden you were tasked with translating words into IPA. In all, I'd probably take this class again as certain points were very interesting and it was a pretty easy A. Just make sure you stay on top of it.