Reviews of professor Chris Westover

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Westover's Protest Music class is very discussion based. You should come to class prepared to talk about the homework from the night before, preferably with notes and questions. He grades based on a few papers, but they're mostly writing and/or analyzing music. I recommend this class; very eye-opening and interesting!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Beethoven's Hero with Westover was the most boring class I took at Denison. gives lots of homework each class which made me feel very anxious and doesn't explain things as well as I would like. Wouldn't recommend taking that class. had him for wind ensemble too. picks really boring music for us to play and some of the music is extremely difficult

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hands down the worst professor in the music department. His lectures are very unclear, he assigns ridiculous amounts of homework, and he moves through material way too fast, making quizzes and tests extremely difficult. He is a very tough grader, even on homework assignments. This professor made me want to drop my music major.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Wind ensemble can be very time consuming. Sometimes, Westover doesn't give clear downbeats, which makes me very confused and makes me become lost when reading the music. He also has too high expectations of the musicians in the ensemble. Sometimes, being in the ensemble gives me stress.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not a good conductor. Doesn't give clear downbeats. Has high expectations. Wind ensemble HUGE time commitment. Most of the music that we play is super boring and extremely difficult. One of the rehearsals interfered with housing registration, and he would not let us register for housing. He wanted someone to do our housing registration for us.