This was actually the very first class I took my freshman year and I loved it. Professors lectures go really well with her slides, easy to take notes to. Tests are very straightforward. Generally just fun and laid back. ALSO I am selling the textbook!! email me @ *************

I am a first year and took Music History 7 with prof Replogle fall 2013. She's elegant, knowledgeable, and concerned. Her lecture is very organized and interesting. I learnt a lot about film and film music industry that can be told from nowhere else! She doesn't put her slides online, but you can view them during her office hour. If you don't understand something, just go asking her and she'll explain it to you very well. Definitely take the class!

Grade breakdown:

50% paper (throughout the quarter)
20% midterm (MC)
30% final (MC+essay)

I took MH 7 with Replogle and thought it was a great class. It was an easy A if you did all of the exam study guides (meaning you went to lecture or had someone give you notes/fill you in). She doesn't post her Powerpoint slides online so keeping up with her lectures was super important. I really enjoyed this class. It was basically watching movies (on your own time) and then going to lecture where she talked about scenes and how the music adds to the film.

There are 3 short exams, and we didn't have a final (though I guess you can say 2 of the short exams are midterms and the last exams is the "final") but they were all pretty easy if you studied, even just a little bit.
The class consists of a paper that you work on throughout the quarter. My T.A graded pretty easily and I ended up getting an A on the paper without really trying or stressing out about it.
I didn't watch half of the movies but still did well by going to lecture or having someone from the class explain what happened in lecture to me for the lectures I missed.

It was a great class and sort of an easy A. I definitely recommend it!

NOTE: ACTUAL CLASS TAKEN: MH5

Holley somehow misses so many iconic rock and roll bands in the syllabus and lectures of this class. It is called HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL yet we have artists like Eminem, Queen Latifah, and Dixie Chicks on this syllabus. Not to mention the “KING OF POP” Michael Jackson. Somehow the King of Rock n Roll, Elvis, only has one song on the syllabus.
On the day entitled HEAVY METAL, she left out the so-called godfathers of Heavy Metal, Black Sabbath. Also she grossly misclassifies many rock and metal bands, almost so much it is offensive to a musician as myself.
The way she explains instruments and music is somewhat insulting to me, there was an observation once “the bass drum and snare drum sound different.” No way, that’s why they’re different drums.
I showed the syllabus to my guitar teacher, a distinguished longtime professor at Sonoma State University, and he was insulted by the music choice. How do you teach a class on rock and roll and not mention AC/DC he said, the greatest rock and roll band of all time. She forgot to mention the best selling hard rock album ever, Back in Black he said.
For hair/glam rock and metal, she forgets to mention Guns N Roses and Motley Crue? The two bands that define hair metal. In the LA Scene. How about Megadeth, Aerosmith (for funk), Journey, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Def Leppard, Pantera? Also, she said Randy Rhoads was from Sabbath; he was never in Sabbath. He founded Quiet Riot.
We focused so much on gay music and culture, but there is a class called LGBTQ Music and Culture. If that’s what I wanted to learn, I would’ve taken that class. Insulted that we didn’t cover actual rock for more than about 3 weeks of the quarter.
Overall I am very very very disappointed in the class. The description on CCLE is very misleading.

Initially, I was turned off from taking this class because Professor Repologle-Wong had an overall 2.7 rating on BruinWalk (I really don't know how), but after looking at the grade distributions for her other classes and my love of musicals, I decided it was worth the risk. It was such a good idea!! I do not know if this is going to be one of my favorite classes at UCLA, but it is definitely up there. I personally love how unique and different the experience is as I am a STEM major, so normally would not take any class of this sort. Professor Repologle-Wong really knows her material though and occasionally will even bust out some notes on the piano like it is no big deal.
The format of the class is one midterm that has some short answer and then one essay. She provided us with all the prompts beforehand though, so if you had at least kind of prepared, it was very doable. Then there was just a final paper and a take-home final exam that was due end of week 10 and finals week, respectively. That was about the only time that I did a ton of work in the class though. There are weekly reflections that are due on CCLE, but they did not have to be long and I found them a nice break from tedious math problems.
A lot of people stopped showing up to lecture after awhile, but I found the content interesting and kept going. The Professor is not scared of bringing up criticism of some of the most popular and well-loved musicals, and I really found my eyes being opened as I approached music and its plot in ways that I had never previously considered. Where else would I have learned that Hamilton is problematic due to its erasure of African American history? Overall, I highly recommend this class if you are a musical fan or want an easy GE!

Your mileage with this class will vary depending on your knowledge of music theory and/or film going in and your attention span. Lectures were interesting if you summarized the content in notes, and the professor was nice enough to let us have a break halfway through the 2-hour lectures, but overall, in the moment I found myself tuning out more often than not. This is better listed as a film class, as I was hoping to discuss the music itself on an analytical/music theory level, not so much the film as a whole and how the music adds to it.

I would consider this an easy GE however it'll feel like a pain in the butt at times. Her lectures are pretty unorganized and you'll get annoyed because you don't know what to write down, what to pay attention to, etc. After taking the midterm and final, I now know that it was heavily movie based and you should pay attention to those details the most. You also have to come to every lecture because she doesn't bruincast/put slides up. The midterm/final are pretty easy if you take notes and pay attention in lectures, as I studied very minimally for them and still did well. Discussions section is a COMPLETE waste of time but you still have to go for participation points.

This class is now listed as MUSCLG 7.

The lectures could get boring at times. The professor does not put much on her slides and does not post them. The midterm/final are based on the scenes analyzed in class from the films that were homework so as long as you pay attention during lecture and watch the assigned movies you should be fine. It is all short answer and a short essay.

There are weekly journal assignments (super easy), a final paper, and the midterm/final. The workload is very light.

DO NOT BUY THE TEXTBOOK!! There is a free pdf of the book if you search for it online.

This class has the potential to be interesting but lacks focus. Even with the long class times we often don't even or barely touch on the films assigned. I like the readings but they're often really long and it doesn't feel like it's worth it since we barely go over (or even at all) the readings in class or in section. In the end I didn't even read at all and I only skimmed a bit for essay writing when I needed to.

As for difficulty, I don't think the class was hard at all. The trick to this class is to understand what the big picture is- other people mentioned that you have to pay vigilantly attention in class to every detail but this isn't the case, just pay extra attention when she goes over big ideas. For example, something tested was about how a certain studio sounds- while she did provide a lot of misc. (but interesting!) details she reiterated over studio sound many times so that's what I put into my notes. You'll find that Holley speaks in a outline format and if you pay attention you can prioritize what to listen to. Also, pay attention when she goes over the movie assigned. That's what is most tested on the midterm and final.

All in all I did enjoy the class but I can see so much more potential for the class. Holley is passionate about what she teaches and that elevates the class a lot.

Homework: 1 movie, 2 readings, and an online post based on lecture/movie/readings per week. You can skim the readings and still do well on exams.

Exams: There is 1 midterm and 1 final based entirely on what Professor Replogle teaches you about the movies during lecture. The final only covers the material after the midterm which is nice!

Paper: There is 1 paper that you work on throughout the quarter about how the music functions in a movie of your choice. You turn in a thesis statement draft, outline, and your final paper for credit along the way.

Overall, this was a pretty good GE for my first quarter at UCLA. The workload could be annoying at times, but if you go to the lectures and do the work then you should do well. Professor Replogle sometimes went on tangents during lectures, but she is very helpful during office hours and definitely deserves a higher rating than she has. Lastly, take Damjan as your TA if you can!