The class overall was easy. However, the modules were very time consuming and rather odd. I rarely attending class because it was not really necessary. Our final paper required outside research and the discussion were centered around reading that did not always overlap with the lectures. The professor was highly entertaining, but I just was not as interested by the material than I thought I would be.

I thought this class was okay. I was actually pretty excited to take the class because of the topic but I felt a bit let down by it. Professor Schwartz was an okay professor. She was a bit disorganized at times, mainly during the last half of the quarter. She was very friendly and approachable though. The class consisted of a midterm, final paper, final exam, creative project and class discussion. Discussion did count towards the grade . All parts were pretty doable. You get the questions that will be on both exams before hand to study so that was helpful. There is a listening section on both exams in which she basically tests your memorization of the specific bands you hear in class. Apparently a lot of people missed the most points in that section so study up.

She also gives a decent amount of time to complete the project and the paper, the paper wasn't due until after finals week. There were also some guest speakers all of which were great. My personal favorite was the all female panel. My TA was Albert(strongly recommend); he was very cool and friendly. He even got us donuts the last day of discussion but the other TA(Scott) seemed pretty cool too.

Overall the class was okay. Also, it is not curved so you have to put in time/work for a good grade.

I really enjoyed this class. I never really listened to punk music that much (Before this class I was only exposed to mainstream pop punk bands) so this class really introduced a lot of punk background and history to me.

Professor Schwartz gives engaging lectures and gets the material across decently with slides but the second half of the quarter we switched to another classroom and the screen was small as heck and her slides became unreadable. Other than that as long as you pay attention to lecture (or just have general knowledge of punk history already) and listen to the songs she plays during lecture you should do well in this class.

The readings weren't really necessary and the TAs are pretty chill about grading. I would definitely recommend this class if you're interested in punk.

This is probably the easiest class I have ever taken at UCLA. I literally just showed up and breathed. We talked about Punk music, did a mini group project, and talked about our experiences with punk. The readings were optional, there was no paper, no final. We were suppose to go to this music festival, but you didn't even need to go that. Easiest Pass/No pass class I have taken at UCLA. 10/10 would recommend.

This class was a mess when I took it at least. Lectures were sparsely attended, the professor would get into arguments with students at times, and the grading of the class was changed throughout the quarter. Ultimately, the entire grade for the class was based off of a final video project. I didn't feel like this class was well organized, but hopefully it has gotten better since.

By all means read all the negative reviews of this class ('bruh this is the worst class ever' etc) which are posted below but I would suggest that before you jump to any conclusions, ask yourself- how does one teach 'punk'? Professor Schwartz introduced this question and made us answer it for ourselves, prompting us to question our assumptions about the genre and investigate why punk music exists. THAT is punk. If you want a typical survey style music history course in which you are fed information to regurgitate on tests, don't take this class. If you like punk music and culture and want to think about what it stands for, you will probably love this class.

Not sure why I’m leaving a review, all the reviews below are accurate. I guess I’m here to reiterate that Jessica Schwartz’s teaching is so incredibly bad, that our TAs had to report her to the department chair. I took this class solely because I knew both of the TAs were amazing, and I ignored all the Bruinwalk reviews...but please, I cannot stress this enough: do NOT take a class with Jessica Schwartz. What the hell was this class? Genuinely, what the hell? It’s too bad, because some of us really wanted to learn. I literally had no idea what she was talking about all quarter. Her “teaching” style, if you can call it that, made absolutely no sense to anyone but her. Truly the most unorganized and unprepared (and honestly, most annoying) professor I’ve ever seen, and yet she acts like it’s all part of her grand plan. She provided us with no guidance. She would tell us to do readings or assignments and then never bring them up again. She speaks for two straight hours about absolutely nothing of substance. Her vagueness drove me NUTS. I am shocked to see she’s been teaching this class for so long.

Though this class was very easy, it was the most unorganized class I have ever taken. The content is very interesting, however the course is so unorganized that it is hard to follow at times. Professor Schwartz is a very fun character.

I took this class because it was required for the musicology minor. The class is just a 3-hour seminar once a week, with weekly discussion forum posts, a midterm project, and a final project. The final project is pretty open-ended: you can choose to do a podcast, video shorts, or traditional paper on pretty much any topic of musicology that you want to do. You also are required to "lead" discussion with a group once during the quarter for about 1 hr-1.5 hrs. I found this class pretty difficult, especially because I didn't really have a lot of background knowledge for the specific topics that the professor focused on a lot in class (ex. punk music) and found that it was pretty difficult to contribute to discussion because I felt out of place (although being on Zoom might have contributed to it). During the later weeks, there were musicologist guest speakers that came in, which I thought was pretty cool at least. I was expecting more of an introductory-level course to what the study of musicology is, but I thought this course was disorganized, disjointed, and I'm not too sure what exactly I learned after ten weeks. Probably wouldn't recommend taking this class unless it's required for your major/minor.

I only took this for the minor. It was pretty boring, I really don't feel like I got anything out of it. I did enjoy the final project, which you can kind of make your own. It's an easy class.