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Difficulty31%
Would Retake85
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LING3C03 - 3.0 rating“Anderson's teaching method is not great”
LING3C03 - 4.0 ratingClass Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
26%
Textbook Required
40%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B
Grade Distribution
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Declining
-1.91 avg changeRatings by Course
ANYLINGUISTICS
5.0
(1)LING3X03
5.0
(1)LING3I03
5.0
(1)LING3II3
5.0
(1)PSYCH3C03
5.0
(2)Difficulty by Course
LING3C03
4.2
1A03
4.1
LING2LL3
4.0
LINGUIST1AA3
4.0
LING1AA3
4.0
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As a function of the linguistics I presume, this prof is very articulate. She uses power point presentations; the majority of which she posts ahead of lecture time. She might however post just before class and not the night before, making it impossible to print out the notes. She nearly always reviews what has gone on in the lecture prior.
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3xo3 got really hacked up -- used to be a 6, now only a three and crappy text. Canders totally makes it okay though -- explains everything very well. Uses clear slideshows and graphics very well in almost all the courses she teaches. Great sense of humour, smart and fun.
She's awesome. Covers everything in detail, goes over questions the students ask in class, and really makes things clear. She doesn't seem to engage all the students, though; they're always ready to pack up at the end of class, so it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
great prof, made class interesting and clear
She's a great prof! Yeah she marks hard and looks at you funny sometimes, but she's clear, organized and calm about things. She explains syntax really well.
her voice is really annoying
reallly helpful and made the class fun
taching the phonetic alphabet and how to use it all in one term is ridiculous
Really helpful, very clear!
Very approachable prof who makes the class fun. She sets up the course in an extremely organized fashion. If you do the homework and keep up with the readings (which is not a lot) as outlined, you can easily do really well.
Very clear and helpful. Gets you interested.
Midterms and final were extremely hard. She is extremely confusing in the wording of her questions. Textbook wasn't necessary, but it is important to attend lecture. Class Average was about B-.
Her way of teaching is excellent, but her personality is a little...meh. She is not the most friendliest person one-on-one.
Not a huge fan of her. She seems very nice and energetic to the class as a whole, but one-on-one she tends to be a little dismissive. She doesn't seem to like answering questions.
Dr Anderson is cheery, even at 8:30am. She explains things very well and encourages questions and discussion. Watch out though - she has high expectations and usually marks pretty hard. Attending class is necessary because she explains complicated research.
Dr. Anderson is very enthusiastic. She explains concepts very well. She's also very helpful during her office hours. A tough marker, challenges her students through her tests which are fair. You must attend class to understand her lectures. It's worth it, she's very energetic and gets you interested.
Dr. Anderson's teaching method is not great. She goes too quickly and just spits out information and experiments. The exam questions are difficult to understand, and require answers that have not been taught or prepared for in class. Her assignments are irrelevant to the course, and she is not helpful in her office hours.
She has very interesting lectures and I love attending her classes. However, her tests extremely challenging and she requires you to answer questions exactly as she wants, even if there are multiple ways you can answer the question.
She is very clear, but midterm and exam was pretty tough
Amazing proff :)
She is very passionate about her subject, and I enjoy her lectures because she constantly expresses that passion for her subject. Of course, I am biased, since I take her courses as electives, due to my love of the subject. I have found her to be helpful, encouraging, and interesting, and I hope that you will, too.
I like Dr. Anderson's linguistics class, both 1A03 and 1AA3.
Amazing prof! Her given lectures makes sure that you understand what you are doing in the course. Her course modules/videos are key and what helped me pass the course. Bird course but still definitely have to do the work for it to be a bird course. Passed using the videos given w/o reading textbook. Great prof, great course.
She was a great professor but not willing to discuss grades or exams or assignments with students. Not very nice.
I've never had such a hands on lecture before. Dr. Anderson does not teach new material -- she simply reiterates and puts further emphasis on short, assigned online lectures or textbook readings. I have never learned so much before. Her method of teaching is amazingly effective and she constantly questions. Great learning experience.
What an amazing prof! She offers every opportunity for success from short helpful youtube videos to weekly checklists. Also, many iClicker questions (that don't count for marks but do count for bonus points!!!) And MANY opportunities to receive bonus points. Also very funny and approachable
She's an amazing prof! Very open to students and genuinely wants everyone to do well in her class! Would definitely recommend taking any of her classes!
I love Dr Anderson, she is a real gem. She is so nice to students, in lecture and when meeting for extra help. It is obvious she really cares. While she does post all lecture slides online, I would definitely recommend going to class as some concepts you can't teach yourself.
Dr. Anderson is an amazing professor! She has a natural teaching style and really cares about her students. I enjoy attending her lectures. She has a great sense of humour, also. She makes Linguistics so interesting to learn. I also like how organized she is, and the way she prepares her students for class. "Check the checklist." Way to go!!!!!!
I loved Dr. Anderson soso much, she's so engaging and passionate and the best at explaining and helping. She's also just a super great human. Her assignments are all straight forward and very fairly marked. Exam is worth a lot but theres clicker points and tests and assignments too. 10/10 would reccomend her classes
A very friendly and calm professor. There are weekly quizzes, but she teaches and incorporates the readings a lot to help students better understand the content being taught.
Dr. Catherine is the best prof I meet so far in my first year. Her lectures are amazing and help me to learn the concepts. After taking her class, I would like to explore more knowledge related to linguistic and probably get my minor in the future.
Dr. Anderson is a wonderful and caring professor. She genuinely wants her students to succeed in her course and gives students every opportunity to do so, with lots of chances to earn bonus points and test your knowledge with optional quizzes and assignments. I absolutely loved this course because she made it easy, fun and interesting!
Nice woman but as a professor, not my favourite. I felt as though the lectures were more of a recap of the online videos rather than having an in-depth explanation as to what is being explained/taught. Not many assignments but they're worth a lot. The content itself was interesting but she was not my favourite professor.
Dr. Anderson is easily one of the most caring professors out there. It's clear that she truly wants her students to succeed. She even wrote her own textbook and it's available online. Although the final exam was quite difficult, there were plenty of opportunities to earn bonus points throughout the semester. Take advantage of those chances!
Professor Anderson is unclear when she speaks. She talks really fast and talks to us as if we already understand the concepts. She is unfair when it comes to marking, and doesnt appear to be understanding when voicing an issue. It is nice however that she posts stuff online, but it doesnt really help when things said are unclear.
Amazing person but not a good prof. She doesn't explain the material well enough & she's not always great at answering questions even though she does really care about her students and wants them to succeed. I took this class for fun but it was the opposite. It caused me way too much stress. Takes a lot of patience & lots of studying to understand
Very nice prof
Dr. Anderson is one of the worst profs I've ever had. She teaches using her own textbook, but she NEVER explains any of her concepts or definitons. This is very much a self taught course as her teaching is extremely hard to follow and understand. She makes her weekly participation exercises as hard as her actual assignments. Would NOT recommend.
I took her class as an elective after receiving an A+ in another second year Linguistics class. Her class is a first year and is MUCH harder and much more stressful. Doesn't explain stuff well and makes assignments way too difficult.
Wouldn't let me resubmit an exercise I spent hours on because I accidentally handed it in in the wrong format. No humanity apparently for this nightmare of a year? Email said it was "only" 4 percent so it was fine... ridiculous and unnecessarily harsh, other profs have been far more understanding, for far more important things
Expected us to analyze the grammar of another language for an assignment question with little to no information about the language (did not even specify which language it was). Did not answer student's questions about it, and made the question worth 16 marks. Setting students up to fail!
Gave me a final mark of B, yet they posted our "total grade" and I supposedly had an 82% according to Dr. Anderson (which would mean a final grade of A-). Completely unprofessional and unfair throughout the entire semester, and this is just one example of such.
Dr. Anderson is literally a saint. She is so understanding and is very willing to help any student who tries hard in her class. Do not be afraid to ask for help. She goes out of her way to ensure that everyone gets attention. Go to class, ask questions, go to office hours. Do her test review and know what you code and the logic behind it.
Dr. Anderson is a wonderful professor. She cares deeply for her students' success and manages to teach linguistics in the most interesting and lighthearted way. Am sad I am graduating and can no longer take any of her classes.
Prof seems nice, however this course is NOT a bird course. Lowest grade I have ever received. Assignments are super unclear, marking is brutal, its just awful. Surprised this is a first year course, I have never been this clueless before. Wouldn't recommend, feedback isn't good (Also lots of weekly work and instructions for projects are unclear)
the teacher is really nice, but I hardly to get good grade on all 3 projects. I worked so hard on these projects but TA gave really low grade. The class is so hard to learn as well. The only nice thing about the class is no final exam, we only have 8 quizzes and this class only count 5 of 8 grade of our quizzes.
Prof is honestly super nice and genuinely cares about what she is teaching. That being said I think linguistics is the biggest waste of a course but that's just me. Assignments are pretty difficult and marked extremely hard. Its my worst grade this sem. If you're looking for a bird course this is not it.
Took this because I thought it was a bird course. The first class I've ever failed. Dr. Anderson seems like a really nice person but it was difficult to reach her when asking for help and even the TA's weren't that helpful when marking the projects. They delete emails if the subject isn't what they want you to subject it as.
Professor Anderson is a very passionate professor who seems to enjoy elaborating a lot on EVERYTHING... It's so confusing! I found that I prefer introduction courses to have information presented more concisely. Her textbook was free, but it was just as frustrating to read as her lectures were to listen to(I'm sorry, but this is just my opinion).
Really interesting class but hard. Tests would have questions on topics we hadn't covered yet. Different TA's would mark the same answer differently. This course is majorly lacking outside sources beyond Anderson. The only learning opportunities are lectures or the lecture in the eBook. If you don't get her explanation your essentially out of luck.
My most dreaded class this semester. Unless you have a deep prior understanding of linguistics, I don't recommend taking this course. Content is delivered in a format on the basis that we have an existing understanding of such subjects, despite this being an intro course. There's no external content, it's mostly terminology/memorization. So boring!
If you're looking for a sign to not take this course this is it! You learn absolutely nothing and your GPA will be brought down. It's the biggest waste of time I have ever spent on a course. It discusses other languages and you're expected to have an in-depth background on content despite it being a first year course. Do not recommend one bit.
very condescending professor and unclear content/assignments
NOT A BIRD COURSE with very unclear grading standard, the TAs are absolutely making the course even more confused. Not recommend at all except u r deeply interested or have prior background with the linguistic
LING 1AA3 was genuinely so hard, and prof. Anderson, while a decent lecturer, simply did not help at all. Her lectures depended entirely on her mood, and she was not at all accommodating to students in need of help in the course. The lectures do absolutely nothing, they give the easiest parts of the textbook.
NOT A BIRD COURSE. Very difficult, with weekly tests and assignments. Despite being very knowledgable in her field, the information I retained often lacked, as her mood will dictate the value of the lecture. The weekly classes do not provide enough information to succeed in this class. And I definitely DO NOT recommend unless you NEED this course.
DO NOT TAKE HER CLASSES!! She teaches the class as if it is not an introductory course. She barely teaches anything during her single class each week and relies on the textbook too much, making it very difficult to study for tests. Her teaching also completely relies on her mood that day, which makes the class even harder to follow.
The class is read-only and the lecture had nothing to do with weekly quiz. The expectations were vague leading students to guess what prof wanted. She did not explain the concepts clearly and was not helpful when students were confused. Some questions were subjective, not based on class material. In previous years the class was apparently better.
The class is basically self-teach, which wouldn't be so bad if her textbook was actually finished and had decent practice material. Instead, you basically go into the tests and quizzes blind, since the questions are nothing like anything covered in the textbook or her lectures.
If you're thinking about taking this course this is your sign to drop it before you end up with a fail or withdraw on your transcript. THE absolute worst course I've taken in my entire life between kindergarten and close to graduating university. 0/10 would not recommend
Most of the reviews for LING 1AA3 are very negative, but I didn't feel that way at all! Yes you have to read the textbook and study, so it's not a complete bird course, but I didn't find it anywhere near as negative as others seem to. This class is hybrid so you have to put in work outside of lecture, otherwise you won't succeed. But I liked it!
This professor cares more about indoctrinating her students with her own personal opinions and ideology than teaching the fundaments of linguistics. THIS CLASS IS A WASTE OF TIME
Pros: - Online tests (open book) - Free textbook - Attendance is not mandatory - No tutorials Cons: - The topics are hard - The lectures and textbook are very confusing (The concepts were not explained clearly) - The questions in the quizzes are really different from what was covered in her lectures - Weekly tests and assignments
This class is self-taught. No way to prepare for the weekly quizzes. Textbook doesn't even have any examples that would help you prepare for the type of questions asked. Dr. Anderson doesn't understand that this content is not intuitive, but since she understands, it she acts as if we do too. If you think this should be a bird course, RUN AWAY!!!
she is difficult to follow during online lectures. doesn't teach much most of what you will learn is going to be in your readings
pretty much a self-taught course but the prof is nice
The professor is a good lecturer(compared to CS) and the textbook she assigns has been tailor made to suit the course. The downloadable PDF does miss some later sections which you need to use online txt for. I wish this course had tutorials especially as I really enjoyed the intropsych ones. Mostly self taught. Final quiz and exam are difficult.
This teacher is very ideological and focuses on fringe topics in the field. There is nothing wrong with doing so but not in an introductory course aimed at students from multiple different disciplines. She is not engaged in research and is not scientifically minded. She often appeals to personal opinions and anecdotes instead of actual data.
I would not reccomend this professor.
Don't take the course unless you actually like linguistics going in.
OMG. Im sorry but Dr.Anderson covers practically nothing in the single lecture a week. There's assignments and quizzes weekly, along with questions on projects regarding other languages that you're somehow expected to understand? Could go so far as to say that this is a completely asycronis class. Good luck if you're planning on taking it....
This class has no tutorials (only 1 lecture a week) and instead of using the lecture to teach the content, she treats it as review. She expects you to understand the content simply by reading her book. Very chaotic course, which is a shame because the material is interesting but not well taught. Is not treated like an introductory course!
Well, she is a nice person and very kind. But this course was so awful. Nobody can understand what she's talking about, u have no clue how to review the final, also, the TA gave us pretty pretty low grades on our assignments even we tried sooo hard to work on it.
Dr. Anderson completely squashed my interest for linguistics. She was so chaotic, the lectures were primarily "review" of content from her textbook. The course isn't hard per se, it is just very chaotic and disorganised. She also really loves pushing her own political agenda during lecture so take that as you will.
She was very disorganized although she was nice she treated the lectures like review and didn't actually teach anything . The TAS were also very hard at marking despite this being the first linguistics class many of us took
Prof. Anderson is a really good professor. I attended most of her office hours. She is really nice to talk to. You can skip most of the lecture and still be fine on it. The course is chill
Dr. Anderson was very kind and knowledgable and her lectures were very engaging! She also made an effort to get to know students who were genuinely interested in the subject. Her textbook is relied on heavily in the course but it is a free online resource. The midterms aren't tests and the final exam is very similar to the quizzes and midterms
very terrible prof
prof is chill but id rather eat 8 ghost peppers and wash it down with franks red hot sauce than take this course again.
Everything up to the final was manageable. I found the project challenging, and when I reached out for support, I didn't get the clarification I was hoping for. Because lectures are only 50 minutes long, the material felt rushed at times. The course starts off easier during the first few weeks and then becomes more demanding as it progresses.
Dr. Anderson is nice and mostly approachable, but makes content extremely difficult to understand. Most lectures felt like a regurgitation of the textbook. Nothing in this class felt objective or meaningful. Content-wise, course material was interesting, but could benefit from a tutorial and respectfully, a fresh face (new professor).
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
26%
Textbook Required
40%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-1.91 avg changeRatings by Course
ANYLINGUISTICS
5.0
(1)LING3X03
5.0
(1)LING3I03
5.0
(1)LING3II3
5.0
(1)PSYCH3C03
5.0
(2)Difficulty by Course
LING3C03
4.2
1A03
4.1
LING2LL3
4.0
LINGUIST1AA3
4.0
LING1AA3
4.0