DON'T TAKE THE CLASS Poorly organized, unnecessarily tough on grading, very vague with guidelines yet punishes you for not following them, has a hugely inflated sense of importance for a very basic class and overall just a very bad teacher and just seemed unpleasant to keep it civil. She will punish you for being sick. I could go on.

To comprehensively list the issues with Doctor Butler as a professor would take well over the allowed characters. To be succinct, she would shuts down discussions and questions, her assignments have vague guidelines but harsh criteria, grading is sluggish, and her handling of certain topics like mental health is borderline offensive.

Uninteresting, rude, unreasonable

Butler was a great professor but she thinks that everyone taking this class loves operas and musicals. I was not one of those people so I found it difficult to find it interesting and really even care. She takes music a little too seriously.

Worst class I have ever taken. Butler did not teach at all. 100% partner discussion, group projects, and presentations. She assigned 2 papers a week and graded 12 wks of them in the latter half of finals week; we had no idea where we stood on grades. I got 20% taken off a paper for using the wrong type of accent. Very condescending and unhelpful.

Professor Butler was very disrespectful towards students in a multitude of ways. Absolutely no guidance, held favorite students, lectures were disorganized/waste of time, not to mention her lack of grading policies. Was extremely rude throughout the entire semester and never gave constructive feedback, only would point out mistakes or errors.

Ms Bulter was great! Her lectures are a bit hard to engage with sometimes, but as long as you're interested in operas and musical theaters you should be fine. The final project can be a bit rough, but there's always ECs you can do to make up for that. Advice: Take word-by-word notes in class that's what the quiz is all about.

Took her during a COVID semester, wasn't impressed. Barely involved despite the asynchronous format; halfway through the semester she stopped recording lectures and cut material from the syllabus, and it was pretty obviously because she wanted to do less work. Tests involved being able to recall specifics from her lectures or the reading.

90% sure Butler hated me. I would go into office hours, email about my projects, participate in class, and yet I kept getting 80% on assignments. When I asked for help she looked me dead in the eye and told me those were good grades - offering no other advice. I scored below the avg. for participation after speaking every class. I felt powerless.

Gives out a lot of reading to do. Assignments are difficult and long, and she doesn't offer any helpful advice for students to improve

The amount of reading assigned in the class is insane. The lectures were far from helpful, and honestly, they lacked any apparent organization. Only take this class on a low credit semester if you want to keep up.

Margaret has a lot of knowledge in the subject area. That said, she is not a very strong educator. She would be extremely picky on my assignments, taking significant points off for minutia. On top of that, she wouldn't be able to offer any meaningful help when I asked for it. Sadly, I didn't learn much in this course because of how it was taught.

Professor Butler was amazing! Shes very knowledgeable, caring, and sweet. Discussions were very relaxed as well.

Prof Butler was amazing. She is so sweet and music 103 is the easiest class I have ever taken. Would definitely take again. I am not even a music major, but I still found it interesting.