Selling Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs

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Easy A but not the most engaging class or professor. Some in class quizzes used only for attendance : the grade won't matter. No real need to do the reading. Grade is mostly based on a final group project that's kind of tedious but fairly graded.

Selling Linguistic Anthropology A Reader Second Edition by Alessandro Duranti.

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This class is centered around the final group project. This project is basically collecting data for the LA Speaks Project. Do not expect to delve deep into Anthropology in this course. Instead, expect to complete a lot of research where its significance is not necessarily explained. Additionally, it is not always clear what is expected of you or when it is due (as many of the due dates were changed frequently). Overall, this course was an easy A and is manageable. However, expect to have to Uber to different parts of LA several times to complete research and to be a bit on edge as due dates and specific assignments weren't always clear.

The main focus that the professor kept emphasizing was the final project which was due at the end of the quarter. It was a group project up to 5 people in a group, each contributing at least 2,000 words to the project. Lectures were packed in the beginning weeks, but eventually I remember one time I counted only 15 students in the room maybe around week 7 or 8. I liked this class mainly because of my TA and the people I met in which it was easy to talk and relate our feelings on how the class was unorganized and being confused during lectures. In the beginning of the quarter, they said we would discuss the readings during discussions so I bought the required texts, but we never did discuss them.. I could have saved the money if I knew that :// I think I missed a couple of discussion sections, but still got an A+. This class is manageable if you're able to find people to interview asap and are willing to meet up with your groupmates a couple of times in the city you choose. Good luck if you need to take this class :)

I would not recommend anyone to take this class. This is a relatively easy GE because you literally don´t have to go to any of the lectures because they are not useful at all. The professor often doesn´t use slides and is not organized at all, we spend one whole lecture just discussing the word "like" , and no one had any idea what was going on or what the lecture or final project would be about until the third week of classes.
For the final project you have to get together with a group of 4/5 people from your discussion and interview people on the streets which is very boring and a pain in the ass project which is not useful or interesting at all. She wanted us to study the accent of the people who live in Los Angeles and for the final paper each PERSON from the group needed to contribute 2 000 WORDS to the same paper analysing a 2min piece of your interview. It is very anoying paper to write and you don´t learn anything doing it, at some point you just make things up to reach the word count.
If you like to write and don´t mind group projects you can take this class cause it´s an easy A if you deliver all the work, but I feel like you could spend your time doing something more useful.

This reviews are so dramatic—this class was an actual cake walk, and the fact that she's "a bad lecturer" doesn't matter because you don't have to go to class. She streamed classes on zoom as well, and the one quiz we had was graded for completion and was just used for attendance—but she let us make it up if we missed it! AND She told us what day it was going to be on—so if you missed it that's completely your fault. You will be lost about what to do for our big final project if you skip all your TA sessions—so that's literally the bare minimum you should do. This class was great, would 100% take again.

Honestly one of the easiest classes I have ever taken. Would HIGHLY recommend to anyone, especially science majors like myself because it takes no outside work and will be a perfect break with harder classes.

Going to class isn't necessary but I did every week because I felt bad that I wasn't doing any work outside of class.

Largest assignment is 300 words weekly on something you need to skim. I had an amazing TA (HANNAH CARLAN), although I've heard pretty good things about all of the TA's, so take her if you can because she summarizes everything so well you literally only need to go to discussion to get an A.

Overall pretty interesting, TAKE THIS CLASS FOR AN EASY A.

Norma's research is very interesting. After reading her book for the course, I realized how much of an expert she is in the field. She has contributed a lot to the Linguistic Anthropology field. Granted, if you don't have much interest in linguistics, you may not enjoy this class. There is a midterm, a final, two homework assignments, weekly reading responses, and your participation accounts for 30% of your grade. Overall, a smooth-running class. Read, do the homework, and participate in discussion section for an A.