There were so many things on A2L and a lot of recordings to listen to as well as readings and so many lecture vids. I took the summer elective. You do a quiz and preference poll every week. Some questions are kinda stupid tbh. I didn't really use the needed materials or watch all the lecture vids to the full extent cuz I also was taking another elective at the time and have a life and young ones to take care of. I don't think it's worth it and still don't think it is to buy a textbook near 100 bucks I barely use, is boring, and don't find useful for the quizzes. And yet, the written assignment requires you to directly cite it. I didn't find their feedback particularly useful and the marking was rather harsh I guess. This is coming from a straight A upper-year student from a harder program ...read more

No, not useful??? This is coming from someone who writes music and has a music theory background. Frankly I found it quite boring and some of the quiz questions were really stupid like 'What was Mozart's father's job?' for example or like asking REALLY specific things about the composer and where they were born, the school they attended, etc.

Too many lecture vids and found it lengthy, boring, overwhelming. TA didn't respond til 2 days after my email sent. Prof is okay. I think. But really, no need to make 50 quiz questions PER quiz. It's overwhelming and testing on specific parts of the audio.

I signed up for the free trial version of the textbook but I didn't realize that the free version would only give you certain (useless) chapters for free access. Most of what I needed for the assignment was blocked from free access. MY ADVICE IS.. if you wanna save bucks on the textbook, read the textbook sections that are relevant in advance and save them if possible (for your assignment- view assignment instructions in case they change from the moment I'm writing this). Then cancel your immediate access thing cuz I find the textbook useless.