i found this course easier than 1A03. When Dr. Stroinska was teaching it on the first part, it was all fairly easy to understand everything but I didn't take any lecture notes at all since everything is lay out on the lecture notes and her test is easy. When she was replaced by Dr. George Thomas after reading week, it because quite difficult to understand the rest of the material such as historical linguistics and his final exam was a little bit difficult than Dr. Stroinska.
Overall this course is awesome but I know someone else is teaching this course this coming semester (Dr. Anderson) and I heard that she is a good prof.