Reviews of professor Eric Jones

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The professor is great and is passionate about the subject. Don't buy the textbook! It's useless. The exams are multiple choice and easy as long as you study! Our class was the first to have him as a prof at UTD, so we had opportunities to retake the first 2 exams, but he is likely going to change that next semester. It was a great (and easy) class

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Take Professor Jones. He is clearly interested in teaching this subject and makes you listen to interesting music. He has 4 exams each worth 20% of your grade, and a concert review (attend concert of your choice and write about it). He gives an exam review (do it). Pay attention in class, study PowerPoint Slides. If you do these, you will succeed.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Eric Jones clearly cares about what he teaches and always makes an effort to make class enjoyable. There are periodic assignments and 3 exams. He asks you to read the textbook but it isn't required and you'll be fine if you just study the slides. No musical background is required. He sometimes takes attendance but he didn't end up counting it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Like the other review said. Maybe this was a new class for him or something, but he graded last minute, gave whole class the same grades (including 2 random, unjustified failing grades to everyone), didn't give midterm grades to let people know where they stood, didn't reply to concerns. Wound up having to contact his superiors, it was that bad.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
unfortunately bc of the pandemic we didn't get to experience this class to the fullest. but he is so respectful about talking about other cultures and their music, and this class had 2 take home exams and some weekly questions here and there. great guy!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor is very understanding is this class was extremely easy. Hardest part was attending a concert and writing a review. Takes attendance, but forgets some days. He only gave 2 homework assignments that took around 30 minutes each. Lectures are not all that interesting if you're not interested in the subject matter. If need an easy A, take this

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Jones is really kind and great professor. At first the exams were in short answer and he used to do attendance checks, then he made multiple choice exams and didn't care/grade attendance. So, i'm not sure what things he will change for the following semesters, but the exam questions came straight from the powerpoints. I enjoyed this class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Eric Jones is clearly passionate about the subject of music. His class is pretty interesting. He has 4 exams, each at 25% of your grade. He gives you an exam review for each of them (and fills them out). Just do the review and you're good to go.