If you're thinking about taking this class, do it! Prof. Kroskrity is amazing and he genuinely cares about his students doing well. There are quite a bit of readings and the essays are long, but he will walk you through it if you need it. He let us submit outlines before the essays were due and rewrite certain portions after we got our grade to get points back. His feedback is SO helpful and he's just so nice with his time when it comes to students. An A is very doable, as long as you put some time into the readings/essays.

Prof. Kroskrity is a great professor! While I'm not going to lie, the readings for the class were quite long and not really interesting, Prof. Kroskrity was very open to answering any and all questions for the class. He mentioned that he used to give quizzes on the readings, but due to everything being online, our grades were based on two things, a midterm and final essay, each being worth half of our grade. He is a tricky grader, but he allows a rewrite for the midterm to earn half of the missed points back. I'm sure it varies by quarter, but he did lower the percentage needed for an A+, A, A-, and so on by a couple percent. His grading on the midterm should give a clear idea of what is needed for the final, so there is no reason not to do well. He also allows optional outlines to be submitted to him before each essay is due to make sure you're on the right track, I definitely recommend doing this! He posts lectures online and uses the designated class time as an office hours instead. Overall, while the course load may seem like a lot and might not be entirely interesting, I don’t think getting the A should be hard. Just a little time consuming in terms of reading and writing 8-9 page papers (he does give us 2-3 weeks to write each though).

This was a really tough class. Professor Kroskrity is really kind and the material can be interesting, but the expectations and requirements are just too much. There was an insane amount of reading that felt physically impossible to complete while taking other classes, and the exams really required you to remember every single reading and his thoughts on them. I will say he goes over the readings in lecture emphasizing the important points, but it's still too much. His lectures are also very rambly. The papers are most of your grade, and they are graded harshly, and they aren't even papers, just regurgitations of the knowledge he expects you to pick up from him. If you know this ahead of time hopefully you won't waste as much time as I did crafting an essay when it was more of a written exam. He does let you revise your midterm and offered an extra credit assignment that was interesting. I ended up doing well in this class but it was only with a LOT of blood, sweat, and tears during Finals week. If you have another option for linguistic anthropology I would take it, but as long as you know what you are getting yourself into, this class isn't completely awful.

This class was a lot of work because of the sheer amount of reading one must do to get an understanding of the material. However, it is well worth it as I learned so much in the class! It is not an easy class but Kroskrity is a good and engaging professor, and truly a top level guy in the field of anthropology. I highly recommend him!