Reviews of professor Sarah Politz

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Do not take her for world mus. One assignment/proj a wk. Lectures were extremely disorganized and were to take notes on. Only thing that saved me was the 20% attendance grading and my TA (Moon). If you have Moon as your TA, he will review everything in recitation and will do it clearly. If you don't then you're on your own to decipher her lectures.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures are super dry, she often brings in guest lecturers who are hit or miss, and there are assignments due each week. Exams are easy as long as you prepare, and the grading scale, while making no sense, seems to be very lenient.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Politz has very dry lectures and expects you to have too much of a music background. There are assignments almost every week which is a little much for a gen ed. She's also kind of intimidating and hard to approach. The class itself is interesting, just not the best gen ed to take.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
DO NOT take Politz's class as a gen ed. Lectures are disorganized and difficult to take notes on. Class is called "world" music but focused on her specific area of expertise for the majority of the semester leaving one class period for other countries/cultures. This class felt like a 1000's level course on music in Africa.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
As a BioChem major, I took this class for GenEd purposes. However, this class is extremely unorganized, the lectures are confusing (the powerpoints are literally a picture with a few words so dont bother reviewing them), my TA was extremely incompetent and lacked basic teaching skills. But, attendance is 20% of your grade (final is 15%) so show up.