If you're taking this class for a GE, you probably shouldn't. It's by no means a hard class, but it's definitely not the easy A you're looking for. Homework almost every week, and a bit on the longer side (but not hard!)
He Bruincasts his lectures, which is nice. He's very clear in his teaching so you should be able to do everything on the exams.
I also think the grade distribution for Winter 2019 is inaccurate here, so don't be afraid to take his class. Not sure if there are easier Ling 20 professors out there (I'm guessing there are), but Schutze is fair -- not super easy, not super hard. I do however think that he teaches more content than others. My peers that took Ling 20 with others told me that they learned a lot less in syntactic theory than I did. However, I really enjoyed how Schutze taught syntax so I didn't mind.
Last bit of advice: my TA carried me in this class. Go to discussion!!

This class is required for Ling major so there is a rule that only 70% of the students can have B- and above. The other 30% might retake the class if they still want to be in Ling major.

Lectures are quite boring, not engaging to me. Everything is on the slides and is broadcasted. Textbook and Study Guide are sometimes helpful. However, the professor usually corrects what is wrong in those materials. That confuses me- to the point that I don't want to read the textbook. But the midterms may have questions about definitions and concepts in the textbook and on his slides.

He offers extra credits (please do it) and it boosts my grade a lot. The participation point is not clear even though I never missed class and attend office hours every week. Homework might be tough at first but I found office hours with TA super helpful. Don't give up after the first few homework because they will get easier. The homework weights heavily in the overall grade so try your best to have high grades.

He has extremely detailed lecture slides and goes over things thoroughly. His lecture however can be somewhat boring. Overall a very good (although kinda boring) learning experience. If you are really interested in linguistics do take his class, otherwise stay away.

Lectures are confusing, long, and boring. The midterm and final were the worst. The final contained unrecognizable material. The TAs were very helpful but overall I would not recommend this class.

Overall the lectures aren’t the most engaging, but Schutze is very clear in his lectures/slides and answers all questions very detailed. He posts the slides which are very helpful when studying and the weekly homework assignments are definitely doable if you take advantage of any of the TAs’ office hours.

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you have to like linguistics to like this class. if you do, you will. if you dont, you probably wont, because theres no slacking off and getting a decent grade. TAs and professor schutze made it easy to get help so you can manage if you just care. the downside to this professor is his lectures are not very engaging, but at least all the information is in the slides and lectures are always podcasted. usually only about 1/3 of the class would show up. it was kinda sad.

The class is not extremely difficult per se, but it is definitely time consuming to say the least! The homework can be slightly tedious (and really time consuming) and the class is graded on a curve in which only the top 75% can earn a B- or above.

If you plan on taking this class, make sure to take the homework seriously! His exams are notably similar to the homework.

The lectures are not the most engaging thing ever, but the great thing about this class is that generally you don't even have to come to lecture because his powerpoint slides are exceedingly thorough for the most part. In addition, his lectures are BruinCasted, if that helps.

To anyone who is taking this class, make sure to really understand the subtle details given in the powerpoint slides! You might not expect it, but something as seemingly minuscule as "Canadian raising" or really bland syntactical theory can be brought up during exams!

The homeworks were unnecessarily long and so were the exams. Tedious and repetitive, but straightforward.

Took this class as a GE and had a great experience! The professor talks a little bit slow, but he is very clear and detailed. He would post recorded audio podcasts, so instead of going to lecture, I would just playback the podcasts at about 1.5x speed and followed along with the powerpoint slides.

If you want a good grade and/or simply want to learn the material well, I highly recommend get a copy of the Study Guide workbook that goes along with the textbook. It has a bunch of questions with an answer key. And these questions are almost identical to the homework questions you'll get (and the midterm and final as well).