Reviews of professor Matthew Barros

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Barros loves his subject, and you can tell. Amazing guy, does his best to make lectures engaging. He covers both the standard concepts of linguistics and the societal implications, which is neat. Heads up: he vetoed attendance quizzes later on, so attendance may not be mandatory next sem, who knows. Overall awesome class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures were always engaging, concepts interesting and easy to understand. You should actually go to class, trying to self study from the textbook isn't nearly as intuitive. I recommend this class highly for anyone, even people who don't think they have any interest in linguistics -- I didn't think I had any and now I'm a linguistics minor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Barros is an awesome teacher, who loves what he teaches and most importantly cares about his students. Professor Barros treats every student with so much respect, ensuring that everyone feels belonged. He creates a highly energetic and intellectual atmosphere, that coming to class became so fun. Thank you and please take this class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
A truly great lecturer. Engaging, funny, and really open to student questions and curiosities. The homework relates to the class material well and is interesting. Easy to do well if you show up to class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Barros is great! Linguistics can get a little boring, but Barros really does a good job at keeping students engaged and making it easy to participate in class. This class can be an easy A, and you can skate by without doing much and not paying attention in class, but if you stay engaged, it's an amazing and interesting course!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The course was restructured. There are now 7 homeworks and 4 quizzes. The lowest homework grade gets dropped, not the lowest quiz grade. The quizzes are difficult. He makes a lot of the questions very tricky and is picky with short answers. It is not an easy A class. You have to work for the grade and understand what's going on. I don't like him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Matt Barros is an amazing Linguistics professor and I would 1000% take his classes again just for his vibe. He's funny and relatable and teaches with great passion.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
From talking to my classmates, a lot of us adored Dr. Barros, but really struggled to stay engaged with the material. Linguistics is vry boring :( I would recommend taking this class only if its in 50 min sessions, bc its very hard to stay engaged. Barros is WONDERFUL tho, and rly goes out of is way to accommodate students needs.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Highly recommend taking a class with Barros -- I went into the class without any knowledge about the field of Linguistics and ended up really enjoying the class. A solid intro-level course covering the basics of Linguistics (analyzing language as a naturally occurring phenomenon). Low-stress, and you learn a lot about how cool language really is.