The class can be hard to understand and it can be easy to get lost during lectures but Professor Whitehead is always willing to help his students. He always stops to ask if there are questions and he holds study tables once a week. His study tables are extremely beneficial especially when there is an assignment. Attend study tables& u will do good

I haven't felt so lost in a class in a long time. I don't even know why this is a Sociology class, we haven't learned anything related to society. This is straight up a Linguistics class, which is not what I signed up for. It's extremely difficult to understand and I'm not interested in it at all. Hands down the worst class I've taken at UCSB. :(

DO NOT TAKE SOC136A. It says its about Conversational Interaction which EVERYONE around me thought was gunna be a class about interacting maybe something similar to Comm, but NO.. its about SOUNDS. He gives you transcripts of voice recordings/videos and we have to analyze the transitions between talking. Week 5 and i still don't know anything

Super easy! Only went to class once after midterm and still got an A. For midterm and final papers, you get like 8 choices to write on so you're bound to know at least one! Only used the book a little for papers... Definitely take a class with him!!