The lectures were evidently well-prepared, but they were disorganized and curated in a fashion that was not user-friendly or intuitive.
I understand professors have different presentation preferences: some put every word they speak on a slide, whereas others put 1 vague word and expand.
Professor Cartmill is the latter type. This is fine if you then concisely and articulately explain the point. However, Prof. Cartmill often used lofty, abstract language and ultimately ended up saying a whole lot of nothing while using a lot of words.
I performed well in this class, both on the midterm (which, to her credit, was easier and more straightforward than expected), project, and final.

However, I felt like I was drowning in superfluous content. We covered content that was significantly difficult to follow, such as the anatomy of phonetics, and were asked to memorize structures relating to speech production, and then we never talked about them again.

Overall, this class was doable in the sense I received a good grade, but at no point did I feel confident in what I was expected to know or actually knowing the material.