[LING W3101] Introduction to Linguistics

Save your GPA; take this course on a Pass/D/Fail. Professor McWhorter's lectures may be entertaining at times but if he spent less time rambling and more time lecturing on relevant material, the assignments would not be so time consuming.

Since the Linguistics department is very small if existent at all, the TAs are not grad students but students who have taken this class before. The course started out with three TAs but had to add more to handle the volume of students who were having difficulties with the problem sets.

I would recommend purchasing the study guide even though it is not a required text or even mentioned on the syllabus.

Good Luck!