Most of this class is watching movies so if that's your thing, you've found your match. The course is 10 movies and very easy writing assignments. I took the whole course online and only had to attend discussions every Friday, which were easy as long as I watched the movies beforehand. The final exam and final essay were both asynchronous.

The Ultimate MUSCLG 7 Guide

Takeaways
- Go to online discussion, watch the lectures, watch the movies.
- Start working on the essay early (unlike me).
- Enjoy the class.

Class Structure
- Lectures are posted online as Weekly Modules. These modules CAN get long, but they are truly interesting most of the times. Each module (except Week 1) has a movie attached to it that is ACTUALLY GOOD. Every module also has a Weekly Journal assignment that expects you to literally just talk about the movie and the lecture.
- Discussions start out as kind of general and disconnected from lecture, but they eventually converge so that each discussion is about the movie of the week.

Grading Structure
- (20 points - 2 each) Weekly Journals are very easy to get full points on. They should be around 200 words and should connect the lecture with the movie (incredibly easy to do).
- (6 points - 2 each) Random assignments that ask you to basically restate a portion of the lecture (also very easy).
- (10 points - 5 each) Thesis Statement Workshop assignments that have you work with a group to review each others assignments (easy).
- (100 points) The Final Paper is due at the end of Week 10. It's a 5-6 page (double spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman) analysis of the use of a musical device in a film of your choice. Not too difficult but honestly I struggled to find enough stuff to make it 5 pages at least and not leap outside the bounds of my thesis. There is a fine balance between making a 3 page essay with a shallow thesis and a 10 page essay with a crazy thesis. Start early, because discussion doesn't really help you with the essay itself.
- (100 points) The Final Assignment is a 5 day assignment that opens on the Monday of Finals Week and is due on the Friday of Finals Week. You choose 2 out of 5 short answer prompts (~200 words each) and 1 out of 5 short essay prompts (~600 words). Examples are required in each answer, and the hardest part of the whole thing is finding timestamps from the movies.

Yes, this class should be an easy A+, but I also found it genuinely interesting and insightful. Personally, I don't know much about film but I love listening to music, and luckily this course doesn't require you to be a film (or music) scholar whatsoever. If you watch the film viewings and lecture videos this class should be a breeze.
With this class being mostly online, you only ever really interact with your TA in discussion section and they grade everything - so the level of easiness in this class heavily relies on your TA. Luckily for me, my TA was amazing and super understanding if anyone needed an extension or extra help.
The only annoying thing about this class is the weekly lecture videos and film viewings, sometimes they would add up to ~6 hours of straight videos to watch which could get boring. My tip would be to speed up the lecture videos and take some notes (specific to the film viewings) because they will be useful for the final assessment.
Overall, if you do the assignments and watch the weekly lectures this class should be a fun and easy A, 10/10 recommend.