AI Rate Professor

Music

Jon Nelson

ART23 · MUSICHISTORY · MUSIC72 · MUS712 · MH16501900 · MUS72 · MUS71 · MUSIC · MUSICHIST · MUS62 · MUSHIST61 · 14 lifetime ratings

AI rating
64/100
RMP rating
4.0/5
Take again
100%
Difficulty
3.9

The decision

if you want rigorous music history and are ready to memorize and work hard.

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerTough GraderAmazing LecturesHard But GoodInspirational ScholarInsanely Hard Tests
  • Deeply knowledgeable music-history lecturer students call brilliant and inspirational.
  • Workload and ; memorization of text and listening is essential.
  • Rewarding for serious music students, not a GPA soft landing.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

28/100

Tough grading and and sustained effort.

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Is the course easy?

Challenging

24/100

Music history content and as extremely hard.

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Is attendance flexible?

Varies

50/100

, so flexibility cannot be confirmed.

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Is this professor recommended?

WorthIt

72/100

Students who stick with him call him a favorite; others dropped because of extreme difficulty.

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Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Strict

28/100

Tagged a .

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Workload

Heavy

28/100

Demands for a multi-unit class are called extremely hard with and listening prep.

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Teaching experience

Good

78/100

Praised for amazing lectures, stories, and deep scholarship despite occasional dull or harsh notes.

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

Students emphasize brutal tests and textbook memorization over project-style work.

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Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

14 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

In-person music history is entertaining and scholarly but notoriously difficult with .

Main concern

and heavy demands .

What students said

“Dr. Nelson is still the .”
MUSHIST61
“ . If you can memorize the .”
MUSHIST61
“He was hard, but he was good.”
MUSIC

Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

No stored summary is available for this format.

Main concern

No main concern is stored for this format.

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Exams are the main risk and are described as extremely difficult and memory-heavy.

Insanely Hard TestsTextbook MemorizationListening Identification

Assessment risk

Strict

28/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

In-person music history tests are insanely hard and reward textbook and listening memorization.

Hard Written TestsName That Tune ListeningTextbook Heavy
“ . If you can memorize the .”
MUSHIST61
“Not hard if you read the book and listen to the Name that Tune tapes.”
MUS72

Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“Dr. Nelson was a very hard, but very good teacher”

Voice snapshots generated from 14 in-person reviews, highlighting . Credibility rating: Medium.

🎯 Teaching Quality

78/100

“Wonderful teacher! Knows his subject from every direction. Lots of fascinating stories that wove music, art, literature and history together.”

🔥 Difficulty Reality

24/100

“ . If you can memorize the . If not, good luck.”

👍 Recommendation

72/100

“He was one of !! He was hard, but he was good.”

⚖️

28/100

“Brilliant professor, but his demands for a 3 unit class were extremely hard.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Hilarious; delightful. Very knowledgeable in his subject.
  • Absolutely crazy and amusing!
  • Uses great stories and anecdotes!

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

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  • Very entertaing and clever. Hard as all hell though.
  • Dr. Nelson was a very hard, but very good teacher

Theme 3

❤️ About Character

  • Very respectful and reasonable.
  • Charming man w/a disasterous class.
  • A very nice teacher. He seems to know a lot.

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

14

Recent reviews read by the AI

14

Lifetime ratings

58/100

Evidence confidence

Fourteen mostly older reviews agree he is hard but good, though sample size and age limit certainty.

Inside 14 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 58
4 out of 53
3 out of 51
2 out of 51
1 out of 51

Course coverage

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Reported outcomes

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B range

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B 1

C range

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