Professor's lecture are dry, difficult to pay attention in class. However, course materials were organized and his lecture slides were very helpful. Weekly homeworks take a ton of time to do, and the answers that the professor is looking for is super specific. It is difficult to not get a ton of points marked off on the homeworks. I also believe that the textbook should not be required for this class. The professor always makes a bunch of edits that override the information found in the textbook, thereby causing a lot of confusion to me and other students.

I found Professor Schutze to be a rather slow and boring lecturer. His slides are great, so if you find him to be too boring you could probably get by with the slides he emails everyone before class.

TL;DR - I really enjoyed this class and highly recommend it to those who are interested in linguistics or want to major in it or something related (like one of the ling & ______ dual majors). If you aren't interested, you'll probably find this class tedious and boring.

Prof. Schutze is extremely thorough (sometimes a little unnecessarily so) in his explanations of course material and answers to students' questions, as well as corrections to the textbook content and study guide answers. He also sticks to the syllabus schedule very closely. The TAs are also very organized and welcoming of questions.

I found that whatever was confusing to me during lecture was always cleared up for me in discussion section through asking questions and doing practice exercise, so it's extremely valuable and worthwhile to go to discussion every week, ESPECIALLY because it helps a lot on the homework too (which is worth nearly half your grade).

Make sure you do your homework thoroughly and ask classmates/friends for help (or even if you're sure of your answers, just double-check with them so you can maximize your points)! Do the psych pool EC experiments early on in the quarter (I finished all of mine by Week 5)!

I found Professor Schutze to be a really boring and confusing lecturer, but the class wasn't that hard. The homeworks can be long, so it's really helpful to find someone to check your answers with. There's 3% extra credit for studies.

I have to say I was a bit nervous for this class just because I heard about how time-consuming ling20 (for any professor) can be. However, the class' pace and the homework was all very fair and straightforward.

I do think Schutze is a phenomenal lecturer. He presents the information clearly and concisely. The only issue I had was that I wish he touched more on the conceptional information in the class (since the final in particular is concept-heavy).

Discussions do help when you're confused. I just wished that my TA did a quick review before we dove into practice so that one could tell if we actually did understand the lecture or not. Overall, I did like this class and I feel fortunate to have taken it with Schutze and the TA I had.

Advice: try to do (or at least start) the homework before your discussion. It's a good gage to see if you understand that week's lesson or not. Be sure you study the concepts, the final ask you a lot of whys. Do the extra credit! It's easy and if you're lucky like me, one might be solely online.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS AS A GE. THIS IS A WEEDER CLASS FOR LINGUISTICS MAJORS, SO IT IS DIFFICULT!

With that out of the way, I would say that this class is fair. The content of this class is phonetics, morphology, and syntax. This class goes very in-depth into these concepts and it is unnecessarily difficult for a GE. However, this is a very good introduction for ling majors. There is homework assigned every week, due on Wednesdays. You also have the opportunity to receive up to 3% EC through participating in SONA experiments. However, he has a weird thing that only 70% of students can receive a B- or better.

Professor Schutze (pronounced shut-zuh to save you the embarrassment lol) is a very thorough lecturer. He is very thorough to the point that the lectures become boring. Because of this, very few people came to lecture (by the end of the quarter, there were only 8 people in our last lecture, if I remember correctly). The homeworks can also be difficult and should not be completed in one sitting. That being said, each question is worth several points and it is possible to receive partial credit on questions. The grading is in-depth and the feedback helps you know your weaknesses.

However, I learned most of the material through my TA. Hashmita was the best TA I've ever had, but she and the other TAs definitely had a very big responsibility practically teaching the class material. Schutze is a slow and boring lecturer but his slides are helpful and the TAs are essential for this class.

Let me just say that this was one of my hardest classes of the quarter and I'm a stem major. This was in no way an easy A so if you're looking for a GE that fulfills that DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. Even people who wanted to be ling majors/minors were reconsidering after taking this class. The professor was actually horrible and by the end of the quarter no one attended lecture because they were so boring and he literally spoke so slow. Shoutout to my TA because without her I would've actually failed the class. The class is weighted heavily on the homework ( i think like 45%) so make sure you get good scores on all of them because it will help your grade. I would always go check my answers with other students or with my TA and that helped a lot. Also, DO THE EXTRA CREDIT psych studies because those will literally boost your grade 3%. Literally got a 77 on the midterm and that was with a fat curve and by some miracle got a 91 on the final, but I did well on the homework so that definitely helped my grade. I have no background in linguistics so again maybe that's why this class was so hard for me but still do not recommend at all. Bless my TA because she was the best but I am so glad this class is over.

Boring. Makes you buy a book then proceeds to correct everything including the work book. No study guides. Not many examples. Hard to listen to. This class was my 13th reason. I miss prof Moore-Cantwell.

RUN AND SAVE YOUR GPA WHILE YOU STILL CAN. If you are taking this class as a GE run and don't look back. I thought it would be an easy GE but I was very wrong. The homeworks are long, the readings are long, and the lectures are boring.

Professor was very dry; workload was very heavy. Known as a linguistics weeder class.