I know we had to have read the book, but I didn’t get through the entire book because I cannot read an entire book in less than a week. I don’t learn that fast and I have five other classes and two jobs to balance, so I didn’t have enough time to get through the entire thing. For the future, it would be fair to have more time to read the book, or only be assigned sections of the book to make it easier on the students to focus their time on other classes or obligations, not just this class. Why was there no assignments due for this book? Do you think majority of your students even read it if there are no assignments given? Are the other books we have to read going to have assignments given with them or are we going to discuss them in class like this book?

Third class of the semester, and I still don’t understand the course. Everyone around me seems to understand it better than I do and I pay attention the same amount everyone else does. I don’t know if it’s because they enjoy the course or what it is, but I want to know why I can’t understand this course like everyone else. I try to take notes, but I honestly don’t know what I’d be taking notes of. Is there any guidance you can give me to do better in this class and to understand this course better? I wish I can comment on what we talked about in class, but it’s hard to comment on something if I don’t understand what’s going on.

After the first class, I still don’t have better insight about the course. I am still super confused and feel like we are jumping around with topics. I think the structure of how the class is ran could be organized better. One way the class could be structured better is if we had a better understanding at the beginning about what the course is about and the layout of it. Also, I feel like there could be more detailed slides about what the class is talking about because I feel so lost and confused. To me, the class is just watching YouTube videos and then you comment on them, which is super confusing because there are no notes to go along with what you are saying. For the future, it would be nice to have a better set of notes given to us regarding the videos.

During today’s first class, I have to be completely honest with you, I have no idea what is going on. I am totally confused about what the class is about because I walked in and it seemed like the class was all about music. I thought I was taking a History class, so I guess when I think of History, I think of the basic History material. Then again, I had no clue what class I was even taking because I need this class to graduate. History has never been my strongest subject because I don’t enjoy learning it, so, I have a feeling I am going to be lost and confused for the most part this semester. I always put my all into anything, but I am already so confused, so I feel I am going to struggle this semester in this class. Also, I think it is a little crazy to be assigned reading a whole book and only have one week to finish it because most people take four or five other classes and have jobs to balance.