Ben White

I took this course with Prof. Soltan because of my interest in linguistics. I enjoyed the content and teaching. There are a lot of small assignments, which means there is regular work, but it helps de-concentrate your grade. I would recommend this course with Prof. Soltan!

Mr White made it clear throughout the semester that Introductory Linguistics was designed to be a chill course that would still teach all the fundamentals of Linguistics. I learned a great deal and this was my easiest course.

This course assigned dense textbook readings every week that were difficult to push through. I felt like there was not much point in the dull 3-hour-long lectures per week after dragging myself through the readings and online discussion boards. Most of the teaching had been done by the textbook and the prof does not really go over the content in detail during lectures. He is a very kind person who is eager to help students outside of class through zoom upon request, but personally I do not regard his in-class teaching to be effective.

This course assigned dense textbook readings every week that were difficult to push through. I felt like there was not much point in the dull 3-hour-long lectures per week after dragging myself through the readings and online discussion boards. Most of the teaching had been done by the textbook and the prof does not really go over th …Read more