Is it easy to get an A in MUS15 (Popular Music: The Beatles), or should I P/NP?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
1

<p>Before you scoff at me, this is legitimate concern of mine because this coming quarter is going to be my utmost hardest quarter. I'd rather not screw up in my major classes, and am considering just taking MUS15 (the one GE I get to take this quarter) as P/NP so I don't risk it? </p>

<p>But I also don't want to forfeit an opportunity to get an easy A. Has anyone taken the class? I suppose the grade is dependent on who exactly is teaching the class. Any prof's I should fear?</p>

2

<p>This was one of the best classes I ever took! If you have Prof DeHart, he is amazing and not bad to look at either. (Just sayin’) Anyway… during the class I freaked out for deciding to take it for a letter grade because I surely thought I would get a B in it, it was harder than expected (everyone had told me it was easy). I ended up getting an A because I went to lectures/section and did the readings - it wasn’t easy but it also wasn’t hard, if that makes sense.</p>

<p>I should mention - the reason I thought it was hard is because you have to learn a lot about music theory (ie parts to songs, different notes, structures of songs) which was a lot harder for me because it’s completeeeeely out of my realm of interest.</p>

3

<p>

</p>

<p>A lot of music theory? No way chica. You probably learned more poetry than music theory.</p>

<p>@robbins01</p>

<p>Take it for a letter grade. It really is an easy easy class if you go to the lectures. I loved it.</p>

4

<p>Hahahaha, I am not making it up! Maybe not music theory but TECHNICAL music terms aka learning about riffs and whether a song was in 4/4 or whatever, was all completely foreign!</p>

5

<p>You can always switch it back to p/np if you don’t feel comfortable w/ the material after 4 weeks :slight_smile: I did that for my mus11 class when I thought I bombed the midterm (and good thing I did).</p>

6

<p>The only things you’re really tested on in that class:</p>

<p><em>Recognize the name of the song playing
Recognize the instrument (if noteworthy, like a sitar) playing
What is the 12-bar blues?
Why was Abbey Road such a mind</em>?</p>