First of all, Linguistics 1-11 should be mandatory because it really lowers students' confidence in writing. It should be a department that assists, rather than mandates, students to enhance their writing skills. So, I'm not saying the professor is an ass or other negative things, but the structure of the program itself needs to be changed.

only retards said he is an ass. He is very easygoing. i doubt you can survive in ucsb if you think he is hard haha.

He is an ass. Too broing and not even teaching things about writing skills. TOo much essays and bull sh!t

He's a good guy... = = i mean hmm....not bad, but the class is too long, so it gets kinda boring...

The worse class I have ever taken. Freaking boring and what he teaches does nothing to help you improve in your writing. His class is boring and stupid honestly. Assigned a lot of stupid writing responses and his final is insanely crazy. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!