The assignments are easy if you pay attention to the discussion. It's mandatory and helpful. My TA was A. Martin, and they were super helpful and would help everyone with questions.

Professor Clayman is honestly the best, he cares about his students and about the class overall. He is super knowledgeable on conversation analysis and his passion really shows as well. I recommend taking this class, your grade is mostly based off about 4-5 assignments that the TA (my TA was Lillian, she’s amazing) and professor prepare you for and make them very manageable to complete, I really liked this formatting of the class as all the assignments are based directly on what you learn in discussion and lecture and there’s no busy work. I recommend this class, super great and interesting imo!

prof clayman is just a super sweet old guy who is rly passionate about conversation analysis! i personally didn't find the topic interesting, but he made it fun and engaging. assignments aren't too bad; just show up to discussion for data sessions and get your TA's help! lor martin was my TA this quarter, and they were a huge help. would recommend!