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This class has a very similar format to Psych 133B so if you've taken that with Ankowski, there is a LOT of overlap in how it works.

The grade breakdown is pretty simple. For participation, you need 5 points. You can get a point every time you go to an office hour with her or a TA, or when you make a post to the forums about something related to the lecture of that week. You also have 4 possible homework assignments based on lectures or videos, but usually they're also graded leniently and only your highest 3 scores count, so if you score perfect on the first 3 you don't need to do the 4th.

There's also 5 quizzes with the lowest graded one dropped. 10 questions each that relate to either lecture material or the book, but the majority comes from lecture. All of it is open notes and very easy. The final is set up the same way with 50 M/C or T/F questions and is also relatively easy as well as open-notes.

My only gripe with this class is that sometimes the lectures were recorded poorly and the audio got distorted, and that there was too much of the lectures to watch every week. We also were assigned to read chapters of the textbook corresponding to each week's lecture to prepare, but I never did that and instead just used CTRL + F for keywords on my quizzes and exams. You can find the textbook online somewhere; it's still important for the quizzes and final in this class.

All in all, the content in this class and the way it is setup is really easy. Most students ended up with an easy A this quarter.

This class was not really what I expected. Most of the reviews said this class was easy but it did not always feel that way. I will say that the grade distribution was great with 10% of our grade being participation (in person through iClicker and online discussion boards), 33% homework, 10% homework quizzes, 17% midterm, and 33% final exam (cumulative). The in-class participation was not bad - just a couple of iClicker questions during each lecture. They were not graded on accuracy, just completion. For the discussion board posts, you could either make your own or respond to someone else's (either way, you received the same credit). You only had to do this for 3 out of the 10 weeks, so if you did a substantive response/post for the first three weeks, you wouldn’t have to worry about it for the rest of the quarter. The homework assignments were a lot more length. It often required you to watch a movie or do an activity with at least three other people. This professor really did not like “fluffy” responses and preferred students get straight to the point when answering the questions on the homework. Usually, each homework assignment had 3-4 questions. She did not have a set word minimum or maximum but provided a rough guideline of 500 words for the whole homework assignment. These were graded pretty fairly, as long as the TA could tell you actually interacted with the material. Another big part of the homework assignment was the reading “Bringing Up Bookmonsters”. It is a book that was written by the professor and her husband. Overall, it was really interesting and fairly intuitive. She assigns part of the book throughout the quarter so that you read through the whole thing by the end. Sometimes there would be questions about it in the homework assignments. The lowest-graded homework assignment was dropped. There were also weekly quizzes. These were open-book/note, had 5 questions, and had a 10-minute time-frame to be completed. Some of the questions I found a bit tricky, but they were overall very doable. The lowest-graded quiz gets dropped. The “Bringing Up Bookmonsters” book was also mentioned in these quizzes. The midterm was a little daunting. I think it was because we had to take it at 8:00 am but it was overall very fair. The exam was a mixture of multiple-choice and free-response questions. All material covered up to that point was fair game. A lot of students were not a fan of the fact that the professor used questions that had “All of the Above” or “None of the Above” but they were not too bad and did not show up that much (from what I recall). The TAs also hosted a review session for the midterm which was SUPER helpful (it was recorded as are lectures). The final exam was what I was really worried about. It was cumulative and covered everything we had encountered throughout the quarter (all lectures, all readings, all films, the entire book “Bringing Up Bookmonsters”, lecture videos, etc.). This one felt really hard to study for but it helped that the professor emphasized that the second half of the quarter was going to be emphasized on the exam. However, when I finally got the exam, the questions were not as intricate and more so discussed the broader lessons from the course. No extra credit is offered and there is no curve (grades are rounded up or down based on the final score; .50 and above rounding up and .49 and below rounding down). Overall, I would say that although this class is somewhat forgiving, I did feel a lot of pressure to secure the grade I wanted. Despite how challenging I thought it was at times, I did really enjoy this class. It taught me a lot and I took away a lot of info that I could apply to my personal life. I would recommend this class!

Attendance is mandatory (you’ll be deducted participation points for not showing up to class) and the material can feel sort of slow at times. The class is easy though!

Kind of boring class but Ankowski is an angel and makes sure you understand the material and its applications

Professor Ankowski is so passionate about linguistic development, it made the material so much more interesting. It's a pretty easy, straightforward class. Either quizzes or homework assignments per week (make sure to answer every part of the assignment) and the quizzes were open note. Exams were also open note and very easy. Definitely should take this class if you need it for psych upperdiv elective.

I'm sure that by the time Professor Ankowski teaches this class again everything will be in-person so your experience will likely differ.

Professor Ankowski's 133c class is extremely interesting and is very straightforward. Professor is caring and always sends us reminders about deadlines/weekly lectures.

I thought the quizzes and assignments were straightforward. Highly recommend as an elective.

Overall: 5/5

Very straightforward class! Exams are open-book, open-lecture, and your grade is based on a few assignments (short paragraph-style responses to lecture), midterm and final, and participation. Participation is either CCLE discussion board posts or office hour attendance. If you've done any linguistics coursework, this is going to be a breeze.

I think this was more of a personal thing but language development was never particularly interesting to me so the class material was dry in my opinion. However, the grade breakdown was incredibly doable, and only top 3 out of your 4 grades for the writing assignment and quiz counted. There was also an opportunity for extra credit by writing about your impression to an assigned film -- pretty interesting.

Overall, an easy class to take. Oh, I also never read the textbook, so Control F is your best buddy during exams. You also can't go back to review questions so everything is sequential so that was my only gripe.

Ankowski is very nice. In COVID-19 times, everything is asynchronous, set all due dates consistently at 11:59 PM every Friday. No midterms, just quizzes and a final exam. You can command F all her lecture transcripts and the textbook for them. My only gripe is that you can't check back prior questions to make sure you inputted the right response. Other than that, relatively easy class.