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Mitchell Morris
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Winter 2022 - This class was definitely one of my favorites that I've taken at UCLA. Professor Morris is incredibly knowledgable about queer history and pop music, and I loved hearing all of his personal anecdotes and opinions on the music we listened to in class. He didn't mind explaining the basics of listening, understanding, and writing about music, which was really nice considering that a lot of professors expect students to know everything already on the first day. Professor Morris really cares about all of his students and wants them all to not only succeed in his classes, but to enjoy what they're learning about too. I'd take him again in a heartbeat for any class he's teaching. Highly recommend you take this class if you're considering it, you likely won't find anything else like it anywhere else.
Winter 2022 - This class was definitely one of my favorites that I've taken at UCLA. Professor Morris is incredibly knowledgable about queer history and pop music, and I loved hearing all of his personal anecdotes and opinions on the music we listened to in class. He didn't mind explaining the basics of listening, understanding, and writing about music, which was really nice considering that a lot of professors expect students to know everything already on the first day. Professor Morris really cares about all of his students and wants them all to not only succeed in his classes, but to enjoy what they're learning about too. I'd take him again in a heartbeat for any class he's teaching. Highly recommend you take this class if you're considering it, you likely won't find anything else like it anywhere else.
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Winter 2016 - This class was hilarious, exciting, and fascinating, all thanks to Professor Morris, who is my favorite professor at UCLA to this day. If you want to gain practical knowledge about a world that is not so openly talked about, take this class. If you want an easy A, take this class. I wasn't so interested in LGBT culture before, but this opened up a whole new world for me. Professor Morris is an incredible lecturer. Never a dull moment in this class. NEVER. I've forgotten my TA's name, but honestly I went to the discussion 2/10 times and never had it held against me; she didn't take attendance. There is virtually no homework or readings- just two 2 page essays, the midterm and the final. I generally hate going to class, but I was excited to go to lecture, and I thoroughly enjoyed writing the essays and taking the final and midterm. Take this class!
Winter 2016 - This class was hilarious, exciting, and fascinating, all thanks to Professor Morris, who is my favorite professor at UCLA to this day. If you want to gain practical knowledge about a world that is not so openly talked about, take this class. If you want an easy A, take this class. I wasn't so interested in LGBT culture before, but this opened up a whole new world for me. Professor Morris is an incredible lecturer. Never a dull moment in this class. NEVER. I've forgotten my TA's name, but honestly I went to the discussion 2/10 times and never had it held against me; she didn't take attendance. There is virtually no homework or readings- just two 2 page essays, the midterm and the final. I generally hate going to class, but I was excited to go to lecture, and I thoroughly enjoyed writing the essays and taking the final and midterm. Take this class!
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DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. I took MUS HIST m137: LGBTQ Perspectives in Pop Music F09. I feel so strongly about this class that it's the first time I've ever posted on Bruinwalk. Sure, the topic seems interesting enough, but there are SEVERAL problems with its format: 1) There is a 50 minute midterm and a final. In order to finish, you absolutely have to take up the entire time; Morris expects you to write extremely fast and jam packs his exams so that you have to. 2) There are THREE 4-6 page papers for this course. Though the prompts may seem fun, they are most definitely not. If you are not LGBTQ you will have a hard time choosing songs to write about from an LGBTQ perspective. Plus, he expects these short papers to be well-written, and because they are shorter it is actually HARDER to fit everything you want to say and still make it a good paper. 3) Furthermore, all the evidence in this course and the reader doesn't seem to help fully illustrate what's going on historically. For the midterm, final and all three papers I had to go to Wikipedia countless times because Morris likes to dibble dabble by naming tons of artists, tons of songs, and elaborates on their significance for maybe two minutes. Basically, he throws a TON of information at you so it's hard to discern what's really going to be on the exams. It forces you to take lots of notes and write down lots of names, so a laptop is a must. 4) The readings sound nice but unlike other courses you take maybe one or two main points from them. There are a ton of readings for this class and discussion is mandatory. You HAVE to go to lecture to do well in this class. The difficulty rating is LOW but the workload is HIGH HIGH HIGH. There are SO Many other classes you can take to qualify for a GE. I did really well (aced everything going into the final) in this class, but I would absolutely NEVER recommend it, it is such a pain. Lecture for 2 hours, 1 hr discussion on Fridays, 3 papers, a midterm AND a long, 3-hour final? NO THANKS. Look somewhere else.
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. I took MUS HIST m137: LGBTQ Perspectives in Pop Music F09. I feel so strongly about this class that it's the first time I've ever posted on Bruinwalk. Sure, the topic seems interesting enough, but there are SEVERAL problems with its format: 1) There is a 50 minute midterm and a final. In order to finish, you absolutely have to take up the entire time; Morris expects you to write extremely fast and jam packs his exams so that you have to. 2) There are THREE 4-6 page papers for this course. Though the prompts may seem fun, they are most definitely not. If you are not LGBTQ you will have a hard time choosing songs to write about from an LGBTQ perspective. Plus, he expects these short papers to be well-written, and because they are shorter it is actually HARDER to fit everything you want to say and still make it a good paper. 3) Furthermore, all the evidence in this course and the reader doesn't seem to help fully illustrate what's going on historically. For the midterm, final and all three papers I had to go to Wikipedia countless times because Morris likes to dibble dabble by naming tons of artists, tons of songs, and elaborates on their significance for maybe two minutes. Basically, he throws a TON of information at you so it's hard to discern what's really going to be on the exams. It forces you to take lots of notes and write down lots of names, so a laptop is a must. 4) The readings sound nice but unlike other courses you take maybe one or two main points from them. There are a ton of readings for this class and discussion is mandatory. You HAVE to go to lecture to do well in this class. The difficulty rating is LOW but the workload is HIGH HIGH HIGH. There are SO Many other classes you can take to qualify for a GE. I did really well (aced everything going into the final) in this class, but I would absolutely NEVER recommend it, it is such a pain. Lecture for 2 hours, 1 hr discussion on Fridays, 3 papers, a midterm AND a long, 3-hour final? NO THANKS. Look somewhere else.
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