Amazing professor! So easy to understand in lecture, very kind, and wants you to succeed. Office hours were extremely helpful. Lectures were constantly interesting because the way he teaches and speaks draws you in and makes you curious.
Even if the pandemic caused everything to be remote, thanks to Professor Keine, my first quarter at UCLA turned out to be awesome.
If you complete all of the homeworks, you will do well on the final. It is like one long homework and it is a PDF that you have 24 hours to fill in.

Professor Claire is the GOAT!! I loved Professor Claire and this course in general, and this is coming from someone who is not a linguistics major and was simply taking this class as a GE. There was roughly one homework each week, one midterm, and one final. I found the lectures and slides to be very helpful. Between the lecture slides and notes/practice problems posted to CCLE, I was able to get through each homework relatively easily. Claire gave very nice and engaging lectures, making the two-ish-hour lectures fly by. We were given 24 hours for our midterm and a WHOLE WEEK (!!) to complete our final exam, which was amazing and allowed me to do well on exams relatively easily. Overall, the material really resonated with me (basically math with sounds (?) is how I'd describe it), I learned something completely new that I had no knowledge of before, and found this course to be low-stress and relatively easy compared to my other classes, so it was a really nice GE in my opinion. 10/10 would recommend!

This class is super easy, I personally enjoyed it even more than ling 1! Lectures are boring but SUPER well-organized. He posts his lecture slides before lecture so you can just jot down notes on top of the slides during the lecture. The slides themselves are so well designed that you won't even need to take notes at all to be honest. Exams are exactly like the homework assignments, which are all of reasonable difficulty. I really enjoyed the homework problems because they require analysis/technical skills rather than rote memorization of terms.

Took this class as a GE and it was an easy A. The grading really does change from TA to TA, so keep that in mind. I found it helpful going to office hours quite frequently. There was a learning curve with this being online (our first quiz was a disaster). All the testing material is pretty similar to the homework and some questions come directly from the study guide book.