TAKE THIS CLASS FOR A GE! This class was generally pretty easy. No midterms or final, just 3 papers and a final paper. Ruskin was pretty boring during lecture, so I didn't feel the need to come to class since our papers were opinion-based and basically had nothing to do with lecture. The only lecture that was interesting was when Ruskin brought in a guest Bollywood lecture. He also cancelled class for all of Week 1 and a couple more times throughout the quarter, so I wasn't used to waking up at 9am to go to class. He does require you to go to discussion, and there is one listening quiz on the songs we talked about in class, but it is a VERY small percentage of your grade. I believe the quiz was about 1% of your grade and I skipped discussion 2-3 times and still got an A. My TA (Maya Blair) was a pretty forgiving grader. I am very STEM-oriented and did not give very strong opinions on the topics given, but as long as you have correct formatting and grammar you should get a good grade.

Doesn't require attendance, the class is not interesting, for lecture and section. An easy A, but very boring