Where to begin? First off, this class does not need to be almost three hours long, and the content prepared for the lecture painfully reflects this. There is no clear direction the course moves in as the weeks go by making it very difficult to be motivated to go to lecture in the first place. This wouldn't be a problem if attendance wasn't made mandatory in the second half of the quarter. The specific lecture that she made clear was mandatory ended with nearly an hour of "free time" to work on an assignment that was due later in the week. Besides making everyone come in to effectively twiddle their thumbs, the assignment in question involved the use of audio editing which makes no sense to do in a classroom environment. Overall this experience felt disrespectful to the class's time, especially considering this was during midterms. As mentioned by another commenter, the feedback for the final assignment fell behind resulting in many students receiving less time than they anticipated to complete the assignment. The feedback in regards to the audio quality came off at best as misguided and at worst as completely uninformed which is surprising considering the professor supposedly has a degree in audio engineering. Highlighting this would be asinine inferences about recording methods and signal processing that come across as uninformed to anyone who knows what they're talking about relating to audio. The nonrecording feedback doesn't fare much better either as oftentimes there were suggestions to do things that were already done, but at least here the professor demonstrates an understanding of story flow and journalistic editing. In short, AVOID THIS CLASS.

Allison is a great professor, easily one of the most interesting and insightful professors I have ever had at UCLA, but the class content is not what was advertised on the course description. I came into it thinking I would be writing for a Music Journalism class, but upon arrival on the first week of class, Allison says that this is music journalism with a specialization in Audio engineering. It is still interesting but the assignments take forever, and often times, she fell behind on grading, which made it really hard to incorporate feedback, for the final projects. The class is also out of 100 points, so any points that you miss are equivalent to percent. Allison is also extremely particular about what she wants in terms of Audio sound, which is fine, but at times it was hard to meet her expectations. She was a graduate student at USC for music journalism and audio engineering, which just means that it was hard to meet her expectations. Especially since, I was taking this class because I was interested in the topic knowing I don't want to specialize in in. It was more of an experience thing, and I just think Allison had to high of expectations. On the first day of class she asked if any graduate students were in her class and there were quite a few which made me nervous, rightfully so.