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Rating of Fundamentals of Music Theory With professor Lian Tan, Su
Based on 2 Rating(s)

1.) Value of course and concepts to overall education:

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Not much

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Average

	100%

Valuable

2.) Did you find the material presented ...


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... boring?


		50%

... average?


		50%

... fascinating?

3.) Overall class atmoshpere:

	100%

friendly

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average

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competitive

4.) Hours per week spent preparing for class:

	50%

0 - 2

	50%

3 - 5

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6 - 8

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9 - 11

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12+

6.) Were your grades deserving of your efforts?


		100%

Yes


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Grades were lower than I thought I deserved


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Grades were higher than I thought I deserved

7.) Professor or assistants were available to help, if needed:

	100%

Yes

	0%

8.) Would you take another class with this professor?

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Yes

	50%

9.) Would you recomend this class to a friend:

	100%

Yes

	0%

Comments:

What advice would you offer to someone comtemplating this course for next semester?

Comment from Anonymous
Su is a bit nuts in the best sense possible and certainly animates the class fully. But she moves quickly to cover the topics so those with little to no music background can get lost quickly. Those with a lot of music background may think it is way too easy. Su gives a bunch of take-home worksheets, hold a few quizzes (one pop-exam, though), and expects work to be done in the giant workbook. Final exam quite exhaustive. Consider taking this class just for Su's entertainment value but also to gain a general understanding of the fundamentals of music.

Comment from Anonymous
Su Tan is an experience. Truly an experience. She is a musical genius (wikipedia her) with some of the craziest stories I've ever heard. But she is so caught up in her genius-musical-world she doesn't know how to effectively teach basic concepts, she can't help herself from making them more complicated than they need to be, which can be very overwhelming at times. I think I learned everything I need to know for the test from the workbook, but was still entertained and inspired by her unrelated stories and lectures on complicated concepts we didn't need to know that took up most of class time. I would take a class with Su or at least try to meet her, but maybe wait to take this particular one with Hamlin unless you have a very good musical background.

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