Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.97 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).
Fall 2026
Topics in Sociolinguistics
An introduction to sociolinguistics exploring how social factors shape language.
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Laura Horton
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Historical reviews of Kelly Wright: Kelly Wright assigns long, repetitive Sunday deadlines and a tedious final exam requiring specific quote retrieval from presentations or a book.
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Professors
Fall 2026Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Joseph Salmons: Joseph Salmons is described as accessible and engaging, with students noting they learn a lot through his lectures. Reviewers found the course easy to do well in, provided they completed the reading and discussion post homework.
JOSEPH SALMONS is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
KELLY WRIGHT is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
LAURA HORTON is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Fall 2026Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
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| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 14 / 20 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Historical reviews of Joseph Salmons: Joseph Salmons offers an easy course where students learn language concepts through accessible lectures and manageable homework.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.90 GPA, 95.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.84 GPA, 93.8% A/AB (n=97 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Kelly Wright: Kelly Wright assigns long, repetitive Sunday deadlines and a tedious final exam requiring specific quote retrieval from presentations or a book.
Historical reviews of Kelly Wright: Kelly Wright creates an interactive, welcoming environment with engaging lectures that encourage participation and relate content to personal experience.
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About this comparison
1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
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UW–Madison
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Topics in Sociolinguistics
Recorded 2026-09-07Inventing Languages
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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