Reviews of professor Richard Futrell

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Homework is not easy and is between 3-11 pages depends on the material we cover in class and it is hard to get full credit on them. Exams are pretty easy, straightforward, nothing tricky, 25-multiple choice questions on canvas, open-book, the 1st midterm is harder than the 2nd midterm and final. He has a lot to cover in class though.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Overall he's a good professor, his lectures go really fast but his slides are online. Lots of hw but you could finish it in 3-4 hours in one sitting. 2 midterms and 1 final, all open book, so they're pretty okay. Discussion is mandatory and it's best to go because TAs help ALOT. Didn't really use the book. Not a hard class, just a tricky subject.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Weekly homework but the lowest score is dropped. Not going to lie, the first exam was on the harder side but if i prepared for it more it wouldve been a bit easier. The exams are online and he allows you to use your book and notes. I highly recommend the pdf version so you can search through the textbook during the exam to save time. The hw helps.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Futrell is a great lecturer, he makes the topics discussed in class easy to understand for someone who had no idea what linguistics was. 2 midterms all open note, 1 final open note. Multiple problem set HW assignments, that are difficult to get full points on, but he posts the answer key afterwards, so they're helpful for tests.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Futrell really knows his stuff, his lecture is interesting and very easy to understand, but HWs are a little bit tricky and it is very hard to get full credit. Exams are non-cumulative and the first one is the hardest one, but the other two are very straightforward, generally not hard questions since they are all open-book. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.