Professor Clayman is organized, lectures well, and does his very best to make rather dry material interesting and engaging. I don't remember too much from Comm 100, since I took it more than a year ago, but I generally agree with what most people have said here, except the TA part. I didn't like my TA at all and just didn't go to discussions, but since they weren't mandatory (as I think all discussions should be), it didn't affect my grade. I would go if you have questions about the material, but if you have a TA like mine, I would just go straight to Clayman. He definitely is one of the nicest guys, and he is more than willing to help you with anything you need.

Talk and Mass Comm was a good class. At first, I didn't feel like I was learning anything of substantial importance, but as it went on, Clayman brought some interesting studies up for discussion, which was one of the best things about the class (it was small, unlike Comm 100). I preferred learning about developing historical trends and journalistic questioning of presidents over transcriptions, question design/structure, and analysis of applause any day. That said, watching a video clip of one or two sentences being repeated over and over again was NOT fun. The papers assignments, however, were not difficult. Overall, not the best class I've ever taken, but Clayman is great.