MUSI 2110

If you are considering this course to fulfill a GenEd requirement, then I recommend you find something else. The biggest issues about this course are that the grading policy and criteria are not clear. I tried my best to participate during each class, but my final grade did not reflect that effort.
The course content is not difficult, and most assignments are based on one's personal experiences.
However, the course is easy to pass and a lot of student-athletes take this course.
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One of the easiest classes at the University. Just dance and sing and write 2 essays that are extremely subjective and almost impossible to get below an A- on and you're done. There's also reading that you have to do and write a one page reflection on every week, but there's not a class at UVA that doesn't include some work outside of the classroom.

The two experiences before mine could have been avoided if students had just tried to free themselves from what they usually expect from UVA for this class, as Michelle suggests to students. The learning is experiential and it is hard to know what the reason is, but it was clear to me when it was all over. Though frustrating along the way not really knowing what to expect or where we were headed, in the end, that was the point. And all students should be encouraged to "think outside the box" and take a class like MUSI 2110 that does not fit the normal routine. It can't hurt. The class should be cross-listed, though. Maybe with Philosophy department. And a better title would be "MUSE-IC IN EVERYDAY LIFE", as students are encouraged to relax and allow creative energy to be released and spend a lot of time reading about that process. A very worthwhile class in the end.

Although our TA, Maria Guarino, was great and did what she could for the class, Michelle Kisliuk is the worst, most unbearable professor I have ever had. She is one of these super liberal feminist professors who likes to think she is liberated and tolerant but makes snap judgments against individuals, despite performance or enthusiasm for the class, and treats students poorly or favorably based on these judgments. The class itself resides in the realm of total bullshit, there is barely a rhyme or reason to the things we "learn." The first month was fun because we sang African songs and learned the dances, which was freeing. However, the class quickly deteriorated after the first month into a pseudo-intellectual, forced anthropology class in which students conduct "field research" (ie sitting somewhere and just observing what happens) and write a ten page paper about their experience. There is not meant to be a point, an argument, or a take away from this paper, it is simply a description in detail (read: a waste of time). The entire class was over it by the last month, as we were forced to sit through everyone giving a five minute presentation on their chosen research topic, and then discuss the papers as a group for the remaining fifteen minutes of class. This was painfully forced. It took an entire month of sitting idly in class to get through all the presentations, and the grand finale was a class period on the very last day of exams (that people had to either come back to town for or wait around for) that lasted four hours in which we had to bear twenty-five presentations and subsequently respond to each one in the context of the class (a context I still struggle to identify). Worst class I have ever taken, do not be fooled if it is fun the first few class periods because I was.

This class should be in no way shape or form called music in everyday life. All we did was West African Chants/Dances (apparently what she does in all of her classes), and wrote a paper that was more like sociology or anthropology. Complete Waste of time. Some people enjoyed this class, but I thought it was dumb and would have rather taken something different. If you want to sing, dance, read random things - take it. if oyu want to take a cool music class....do not