Professor
Ciera Ott
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2025 - Insanely Easy A, so bs'able. The only work the entire quarter is your final project, which is an infographic. I did mine with so much AI and got a 95. Shouldn't need to spend more than 10 hours on this class all quarter besides lecture attendance. Grading in this class was weird but easy. Lectures were mandatory, then they weren't, then nobody came so they were again for the last two weeks. Attendance at those lectures and discussion section was worth 30%, Midterm (first half of project) was 30%, and final project was 40%. Pretty simple, as long as your project was good, you will do well. They didn't announce the grading scheme until after we got our "Midterm" project grades back...lots of people were unhappy about that. The lectures were insanely pointless. I had high hopes of actually being interested by this class, but Prof. Macfayden did not talk about Rock n Roll in a way that the students were interested about. He limited the scope of the course to 1956-78, which excluded all of my favorite bands and made the course so much more boring. There were moments when I looked up from my computer in lecture to try and be interested, but they were rare. Instead, the Prof. decided to focus on lesser-known bands and try to get us interested in them. Didn't work for me, and from what I could tell, didn't work for most of the class. Content wise, not as fun as I hoped for. Class sounded cool and wasn't really. TA Ciera Ott was very nice and kind. She tried her best to clarify the ambiguities about the project and give meaningful feedback. Honestly, she made the course a lot better, so definitely get her as your TA if she is available.
Spring 2025 - Insanely Easy A, so bs'able. The only work the entire quarter is your final project, which is an infographic. I did mine with so much AI and got a 95. Shouldn't need to spend more than 10 hours on this class all quarter besides lecture attendance. Grading in this class was weird but easy. Lectures were mandatory, then they weren't, then nobody came so they were again for the last two weeks. Attendance at those lectures and discussion section was worth 30%, Midterm (first half of project) was 30%, and final project was 40%. Pretty simple, as long as your project was good, you will do well. They didn't announce the grading scheme until after we got our "Midterm" project grades back...lots of people were unhappy about that. The lectures were insanely pointless. I had high hopes of actually being interested by this class, but Prof. Macfayden did not talk about Rock n Roll in a way that the students were interested about. He limited the scope of the course to 1956-78, which excluded all of my favorite bands and made the course so much more boring. There were moments when I looked up from my computer in lecture to try and be interested, but they were rare. Instead, the Prof. decided to focus on lesser-known bands and try to get us interested in them. Didn't work for me, and from what I could tell, didn't work for most of the class. Content wise, not as fun as I hoped for. Class sounded cool and wasn't really. TA Ciera Ott was very nice and kind. She tried her best to clarify the ambiguities about the project and give meaningful feedback. Honestly, she made the course a lot better, so definitely get her as your TA if she is available.
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