Hello, I am a college freshman done with her first semester. i really enjoyed it, the people social life and i even enjoyed my classes where I studied and did vigorus work for. I am a music major and in our school we must take music theory, piano skills, sightsinging (singing whats on paper) and dictation (writing music as its being played) all sequentially (VI levels) each semester. This semester I finally recieved my grades, I took a few classes however some were not rigourous (like band) and maintained a good work pace and kept up with all of my work. A for precalc and english110, A- for piano skills, A+ music history and band, P recital attendance (pass or fail course), and B+ for sightsinging dictation (its a joint class where they combine the grades at the end). But for theory I recieved a D+. i was horrified, granted I wasnt excepting an A but it was the class that I put most of my time into i never missed a class, I did every assignment, and such and he even told me i was doing better. in this class we had the original professor and he gave work to which i got two As a B+ and a C on quizzes and passed my classwork but then midway he left due to pnuemonia and never returned, we kept having different professors each class and finally had one set professor (who was the lvl VI professor). He taught things quite different from my original professor and never actually gave us grades, instead he gave it back and told us to do corrections, i did that and would even go to his office hours (which he rarely was able to do) and discussed my work. Hes that type of professor that was such a nice guy and knows his stuff but did poorly teaching, the whole class struggled and was confused at what was he teaching sometimes but I got the concepts after studying the material. He eventually told us that all of us were good at piano but lacking in written theory work. He never gave me a grade for my work and never even had a midterm and on our final there were things we’ve never went over or did for a brief moment. I knew I wasnt suppose to get an A or B+ but i knew a B or C of some sort had to be it, like average marks. And now because of it i can’t take the next level courses for next semester (to which i did great in) and have to retake just this class and take the following sequence next year since you need a minimum of C- to move to theory II (I’ll be behind a semester). i knew what I was doing in the class and he honestly was a bit spacey and never gave us good explainations nor grades, only for some sometimes. i was doing so well while my old professor was around I had an idea about how I was doing and I had no clue after he left, I tried asking him but he’s like oh youre doing ok. Please tell me what you think I should do, I really do think I should be passing this course I have my work that Ive done and it wasnt as bad as to get a D+, theres no grade on them either. Before the final we had mock tests (with this prof we did not have a single test) and I did great on them, he even presented it to the class (there was no grade on it of course but he showed it to the class so it must have been good). I did struggle a bit with his homework in the beginning but I caught the hang of things and he even wrote good and youre getting better on a paper once.
Please if someone could tell me what step I should take next, or someone I should talk to? Or have a talk with someone to hear me out? I emailed the professor but he has not responded back to me…