COMM M124
Psychology of Language and Gender
Description: (Same as Anthropology M124R.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Recommended preparation: Anthropology 1 or 4 or Linguistics 1. Designed for juniors and seniors. How did human capacity for language evolve? Examination of origin of human language from biological, comparative, developmental, social and computational perspectives. Topics include evolutionary theory, linguistic structure, gesture and speech, animal communication, language learning, language disorders, and computational models of language emergence. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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She is a little off beat when she lectures and has her own sense of humor, but she's an AWESOME professor. The reading is definitely manageable, and most people didn't read most of it since she reviewed the material in class. Also - you didn't really have to know the reading material except for one article she assigned every week to write a short (2-page) opinion essay. At the end of the class, we had to write a paper (about 5 pages) that addressed any of the topics that we talked about in class. You could seriously do it on almost anything, which was awesome. She's really accessible and answers e-mails VERY quickly. Her grading also is not too hard since she tries to make everyone do well in her class. If you talk to her one-on-one, you'll realize that she's such a great and knowledgable person on almost every topic. She brings in her personal experiences into the lectures since she used to be a lawyer and grew up with a really different childhood. Overall- very interesting and awesome professor!
She is a little off beat when she lectures and has her own sense of humor, but she's an AWESOME professor. The reading is definitely manageable, and most people didn't read most of it since she reviewed the material in class. Also - you didn't really have to know the reading material except for one article she assigned every week to write a short (2-page) opinion essay. At the end of the class, we had to write a paper (about 5 pages) that addressed any of the topics that we talked about in class. You could seriously do it on almost anything, which was awesome. She's really accessible and answers e-mails VERY quickly. Her grading also is not too hard since she tries to make everyone do well in her class. If you talk to her one-on-one, you'll realize that she's such a great and knowledgable person on almost every topic. She brings in her personal experiences into the lectures since she used to be a lawyer and grew up with a really different childhood. Overall- very interesting and awesome professor!
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