A survey of the historical origins and development of jazz, beginning with the West African heritage and the African-American folk tradition, and examining the social and cultural context of this twentieth-century music.

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GEs Area F Ethnicity Writing
STEWART J C
Jeffrey Stewart
3.1
21 reviews
SH 3707
T
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
20 / 20 Full

SH 3707
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11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
19 / 20

SH 3707
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12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
20 / 20 Full

Winter 2024 . Stewart J C
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BLST14 . Stewart J C 3 Months Ago

Unsure how to feel. Good for getting your GE credits done, and Jeff is a wonderful person. Its just the amount of work to a class like this is a bad ratio in my opinion - if you could P/NP I would not be giving it a 1. I just saw this as an overall waste of my time. If the lectures were not mandatory, this rating would be a 2.5 probably.

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BLST14 . Stewart J C 3 Months Ago

never ever ever ever doing a blst class again. steward is a kind and nice man. he adores his students and is very nice. however the class sucks, lectures are boring, ta was awful and acted more like the professor, and this just made me hate jazz and black studies. the only thing i learned was to avoid BLST, nothing about jazz lmao

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BLST14 . Stewart J C 3 Months Ago

AWFUL CLASS. Very activist heavy, get ready to stand against brainwashing. Our TA was very over the top and put a lot of stress on my fellow students and myself. If I had to go through another one of her sections I would just lose my mind. Just avoid the black studies department like it is the plague. Good prof though, he is a great man. TA is bad.

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BLST14 . Stewart J C 3 Months Ago

Honestly, this class has me at mixed emotions. On the one end of things, the prof is a great man. However, the class itself is highly boring and I feel like I could've missed lectures and still do a decent job. (lectures are mandatory, and are quite boring). TA was ok, but sections were just over the top for a class such as this.

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BLST14 . Stewart J C 3 Months Ago

i cant with this class. this was such an activism class that it hurt my brain, i am never taking a class from the BLST department again. ta was awful, she was so snoopy and just was such an activist over anything. a complete waste of my time, and i dreaded going to every. single. boring. lecture. awful, awful, awful, class.

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BLST14 . Stewart J C 3 Months Ago

Mandatory lectures which will solve any sleeping issues you have. Mandatory "coffeehouses", which are a waste of your time unless you like to be crammed in a tiny room with music blaring, hurting your ears. The TA this year was also bad, and I highly disliked her section. Overall, this class was a waste of time.

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