ETHNMUS 5
Music Around World
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, 10 hours. Overview of world's musical traditions by selecting one or two case studies from each of nine musical world regions: Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and U.S. and Canada. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2020 - Professor Mathias did a really incredible job with this class. It is so interesting, so unbelievably well-organized, and so fun. I have always been interested in music, but I came in knowing dang near nothing. I had no idea what to expect, and I was especially worried concerning the switch to online classes right before spring quarter. However, Professor Mathias handled this transition better than any other professor I have. She did a fantastic job and it was seamlessly done. The lectures were asynchronous to accommodate all students. The discussions were done in person, and the TAs were both great. The only thing we had to do other than the lectures were weekly fieldwork journals (listen to great music of your choice for about 20 minutes and submit notes) and a book report, which was split into multiple different parts to lower the workload and keep students from procrastinating too much. Professor Mathias cares deeply about student learning, and she was extremely accommodating. When it appeared the pandemic was going to make things difficult, she made it so that late completions of lectures would not be penalized, one missed discussion would not be penalized, one missed fieldwork journal would not be penalized, and late submission of one part of the book review would not be penalized. Then, when more issues erupted towards the end of the quarter, she made the book report "no-harm" so that those who were impacted would not be overly stressed. All in all: an amazing class with super interesting content, very little work, and an extremely fair professor. I highly recommend it.
Spring 2020 - Professor Mathias did a really incredible job with this class. It is so interesting, so unbelievably well-organized, and so fun. I have always been interested in music, but I came in knowing dang near nothing. I had no idea what to expect, and I was especially worried concerning the switch to online classes right before spring quarter. However, Professor Mathias handled this transition better than any other professor I have. She did a fantastic job and it was seamlessly done. The lectures were asynchronous to accommodate all students. The discussions were done in person, and the TAs were both great. The only thing we had to do other than the lectures were weekly fieldwork journals (listen to great music of your choice for about 20 minutes and submit notes) and a book report, which was split into multiple different parts to lower the workload and keep students from procrastinating too much. Professor Mathias cares deeply about student learning, and she was extremely accommodating. When it appeared the pandemic was going to make things difficult, she made it so that late completions of lectures would not be penalized, one missed discussion would not be penalized, one missed fieldwork journal would not be penalized, and late submission of one part of the book review would not be penalized. Then, when more issues erupted towards the end of the quarter, she made the book report "no-harm" so that those who were impacted would not be overly stressed. All in all: an amazing class with super interesting content, very little work, and an extremely fair professor. I highly recommend it.
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Spring 2023 - I took this class as a GE and overall enjoyed the class material, but the lectures were very boring. You really only need good memorization to do well in the class. Lectures were long, boring, and unengaging but the expectations for the class were very clearly outlined which I found helpful. I knew exactly what I had to study for exams, and papers were graded generously. The lecture slides even have a slide at the end with a list of terms you’ll need to know for the tests, and you really don’t need to know anything else. Overall a boring but easy GE. TA Heidi wasn’t very good at explaining things clearly to us and I didn’t really gain anything from sections but it didn’t matter because the class was so easy. However, I would recommend avoiding her if you are able to.
Spring 2023 - I took this class as a GE and overall enjoyed the class material, but the lectures were very boring. You really only need good memorization to do well in the class. Lectures were long, boring, and unengaging but the expectations for the class were very clearly outlined which I found helpful. I knew exactly what I had to study for exams, and papers were graded generously. The lecture slides even have a slide at the end with a list of terms you’ll need to know for the tests, and you really don’t need to know anything else. Overall a boring but easy GE. TA Heidi wasn’t very good at explaining things clearly to us and I didn’t really gain anything from sections but it didn’t matter because the class was so easy. However, I would recommend avoiding her if you are able to.
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