Reviews of professor Suzi Lima

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
LIN200 was a course with very light work-load. No readings are necessary, and the online lecture is about 30-40min a week. tutorial and weekly practices are free marks, so be sure to attend. Mid term and final are easy as long as you attend lectures and do the weekly practice and homework. Group work is important, so make friends if you can.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Imagine someone finding the smallest flaws in your work and taking off 15% because of it every time. This was how the instruction from this course was. Absolutely unfair. No communication between professors and TAs, half of the things the professor taught the TA took off marks and said they aren't concepts in linguistics. Would not recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took LIN200 with Professor Lima in Summer 2022. She was nice and her lectures were clear, but the "homework" quizzes were very stressful. Each quiz was extremely rushed, and the questions were more advanced/unclear compared to the few examples we were exposed to in class. The marking was slow (it took weeks to get feedback in a 6-week course).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Amazing prof! The slides formatted by both her and Prof Nathan Sanders is very concise. Everything you need to know is on the slides so no need for additional notes! This course was very light (less than an hr of lecs each week) and interesting! 10/10 best elective ever

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I really loved Suzi's class. While the course content could be difficult at times, and there were a lot of readings, I always felt that she was supporting me to do my best work. Her grading criteria is extremely clear and she makes the assignments very interesting (as well as great preparation for further research projects).

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I have a 4.0 GPA in sciences, and this course will be the reason my grade drops. Explanations given in lecture are not related to exam content and it is difficult to understand her because she talks very fast and at times does not explain clearly. Extremely tough grader.