Reviews of professor Ryan Bruce

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Enjoyed the lectures, which you must attend to pass. Found the final exam to be quite difficult; very tough multiple choice questions. Don't expect this to be an easy elective, it requires attendance and lots of work.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Bruce leaves some info out of the slides that he says in person and will be on the tests, so attendance and note-taking is recommended for a high grade. This isn't much of a problem though since if you actually appreciate popular music and its origins there's a plethora of interesting tidbits he'll drop which make these lectures worth going to.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Bruce tried really hard, and he was a super nice professor, just not the best at teacher theory. We had a textbook written by another theory prof here and thank god because Dr. Bruce's lectures made no sense. He was always super available to chat outside of class, and did much better at explaining things one-on-one.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took this class as an elective with Dr Bruce. I believe it was his first course at Mac. He mostly reads off the slides, but going to lecture gave the slides some context, and made it easy to understand. Tests are easy. He brings his guitar, does some funny antics that make a night class bearable. IF HE'S TEACHING MUSIC 2II3, TAKE IT!!!