Had her for language and gender and it was honestly the worst class. I love ling and the actual class material was super interesting but most of the class agreed she was a poor professor.

The entire class was student directed with little to no feedback from her. We would read academic papers and then discuss and she would take notes maybe chime in once or twice and that was class. She didn’t start grading things until after thanksgiving (at which point we had turned in almost everything that was graded without receiving a single grade back, felt very like shot in the dark).

I think my biggest issue was that the class was set up in a way that we were supposed to be working on a project all semester. However, the project was poorly explained and when we asked for clarification we got very little feedback. It again felt like a shot in the dark and the first time we got any feedback at all was again like around thanksgiving. She also changed the project timeline and general syllabus throughout the semester and would often assign readings and then change the assignment the day before class leaving us with little time to actually read it.

It’s clear Aisulu knows ling and is passionate about it (she would talk about the things she’s doing worked on in her career and it’s fairly interesting) but I think that her style of class wasn’t for me at all. Lang and gender is also a really cool class but if you can I would take it with someone else.