Big essay for the final but overall a very interesting class. My favorite class for the online year.

This class is not an easy A or a throwaway GE, but the material is super engaging and the work is rewarding. The bulk of the grading is based on short writing assignments, a long take-home midterm essay, and a final group video project. Prof Stewart is quite accessible out of class and very receptive to student feedback. Definitely go to lecture!!

Prepare your hole for a 9000 word midterm exam. Lectures are also mandatory, which makes sense because no one would normally sit through something so stale. If you don't like it, you're sheet out of luck, this class can't be taken PNP..

If you are considering taking this class, I would recommend it because it is actually really cool but make sure you can handle the workload. There are 3-4 mandatory jazz performances, 4-5 blog posts (300 words each), a 10-15 pg midterm, final group project (video pres. & 8 pg paper), self/class evaluation, and 2 section presentations.

I took this hearing that it was an easy GE, but it takes too much time and effort. He makes you go to these jazz performances in IV almost every weekend, which is really a pain. The blog posts are graded harshly. He acted like he was doing us a favor by assigning a 10 page essay over a holiday weekend instead of a having an in class midterm.

Really genuine person and great professor! His ppts aren't the most helpful but he's a great lecturer and is really interesting to talk to. Pay attention to lectures and in section especially if you don't do the readings. Really cool dude.