Anna Wittstruck
May 7, 2025 · Historical comment
BEST CLASS FOR ARTS CORE!! she is the easiest professor I have had. Definitely take her
MUSA1200 · Music
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This course will attempt to develop essential and critical listening faculties by employing a chronological survey of the elements, forms, and various types of music that the serious listener is exposed to today. The principal emphasis of the course will be on traditional Western art music from medieval Gregorian Chant to twentieth-century electronic music, but certain excursions into the world of non-Western musics, jazz, and American popular song will be included to diversify and enrich the experience of listening critically to music.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.4 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
4.3 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.4 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.2 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~4
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
Ratings below reflect only recovered evaluations connected to this course.
Part Time Faculty, Music Department
4.3 / 5
4.0 / 5
Part Time Faculty, Music Department
4.8 / 5
4.5 / 5
Associate Professor, Music Department
4.1 / 5
3.6 / 5
Professor of the Practice, Music Department
4.1 / 5
3.5 / 5
Part Time Faculty, Music Department
4.4 / 5
4.1 / 5
Part Time Faculty, Music Department
4.1 / 5
3.8 / 5
Associate Professor of the Practice, Music Department
4.7 / 5
4.3 / 5
Professor, Music Department
4.1 / 5
3.5 / 5
Student perspective
Recovered and new anonymous comments are shown as written and may reflect different course formats.
May 7, 2025 · Historical comment
BEST CLASS FOR ARTS CORE!! she is the easiest professor I have had. Definitely take her
Apr 10, 2025 · Historical comment
Genuinely horrible. It's so much work and so hard. The tests are listening to a snippet of an old, often classical song, naming the song, composer, era, and larger work, and answering questions about it. Only one person got an higher than a B- on the first test.
Across time
Section-level results available in the recovered archive.
Spring 2025
8 sectionsFall 2024
8 sectionsSummer 2024
1 sectionSpring 2024
6 sectionsFall 2023
5 sectionsSummer 2023
1 sectionSpring 2023
5 sectionsFall 2022
4 sectionsSummer 2022
1 sectionSpring 2022
4 sectionsFall 2021
5 sectionsSummer 2021
1 section