Hey everyone! I'm Cooper from Wayne, Pennsylvania, which is right outside of Philadelphia. I am a '28 here at Dartmouth, and plan on studying Quantitative Social Science and Cognitive Science. In my free time, I love getting food with friends, playing pickleball, watching sitcoms (personal favorite is Modern Family), and going on walks. I am super excited to be here and cannot wait to take you along my journey at Dartmouth!
I took this class with Professor Binkoski, and I absolutely loved it! We explored numerous theories regarding time travel and the existence of time, and it just completely blew my mind. Professor Binkoski is such an engaging lecturer and explains everything so thoroughly, which makes the class so incredible! After taking this class, I have become more interested in philosophy and cannot wait to take more classes in this department.
I took this class with Professor Horiuchi and learned more than I could have possibly imagined! This course is incredibly challenging and has a good amount of work, but I learned so much about the programing language R as well as how to wrangle and visualize data. By taking this class, I have confirmed that I want to major in QSS because of how interesting the material was. If you want to enhance your skills in R, this is the class to take!
In order to fulfill my language requirement, I took Spanish 9 with Professor Rieumont. This class was simply incredible. Not only was the content interesting and engaging, but my actual class itself (both the professor and fellow students) made this class so memorable. We learned so much about Spanish-speaking cultures all while having so much fun doing it, and I am so grateful that I took this class with such an amazing group!
Welcome back to my series! This week's course is Ling 1, also known as Introductory Linguistics. This class can count towards many things: the Linguistics major/minor, the Cognitive Science major, or even a social science requirement of some majors (including QSS). In terms of distributive requirements, Ling 1 fulfills the QDS (Quantitative or Deductive Science) distribution, which is really nice if you are not looking for a super intense mathematics course.
I took this class with Professor Pulju, a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Classics. This class was medium-sized, with about 30 people in it. In terms of the actual class structure, it was mainly lectures with a few discussions about the actual content we were learning about. Professor Pulju is such an amazing lecturer, and makes the class super engaging which I absolutely love! He is always asking the class about the content we are learning, which helps us understand the content even more!
A day in class!
In terms of the assignments in this class, we had 9 homeworks, 5 quizzes, 2 midterms, and a final. They were pretty spread out, which made it much less stressful. Beyond these assignments, I absolutely adored this class. It was incredibly interesting and really relied on deductive reasoning, which is something that I am good at. I would have never guessed that a linguistics class would be something that I loved, but this has been one of my favorite classes I have taken here so far. It is not terribly hard, and as long as you pay attention in class and attend office hours, it should be fairly simple overall!
An example of a syntax tree I did for class!
All in all, this class is certainly not the easiest, but with good management, it can be pretty straightforward. That is it for this class, I will see you soon!
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