A continuation of one of my favorite classes so far at the University of California, Los Angeles, Cluster 60B was pretty much just a follow up from Cluster 60A moving in roughly chronological order. The class continued to meet for lecture twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday) from 9:30 to 10:45 with one additional discussion time which varied from teaching assistant to teaching assistant. The only difference is that there was a midterm due week six (I believe) instead of the paper due week five of the quarter before (if I recall correctly) and that both the midterm and final were cumulative (meaning that any and all content from the prior quarter was eligible for testing, which made things slightly more difficult. Professor Fink in particular focuses on the musical aspects of the Cluster and while I do not consider myself to be a musical person or musically gifted at all (I did, after all, take a Cluster course to get through my performing arts general education requirements) I thoroughly enjoyed his lectures. Professor Fink was truly entertaining and made the few occasions on which I actually got up on time for our 9:30 am lectures in the De Neve auditorium worth it.

Professor Fink is one of the better lectures for the class. His lectures were truly engaging. He had new stuff to talk about every lecture and taught it in ways that were fun and easy to understand. He even brought in a guest speaker who played the electric guitar for us so we could understand Jimi Hendrix's style better. The only downfall for this professor was the musicology paper. It was extremely difficult to write because it was so conceptual. There was no set topic that you had to write about and you invented things as you want. Overall Fink is a great professor and I would recommend him, he is one of the professors of the cluster you will look forward to seeing.

I'm not going to try to convince anyone to take this class because if you're looking at BruinWalk for 60B then I'm guessing you've already taken 60A and you know that it's an interesting class and that Fink is a literal GOD.

I will say that I'm selling the course reader for this quarter. I paid $60 for it and I'm willing to sell it for $40. It's only got a few notes throughout but its in great condition. If for some reason you didn't see my post for 60A, I also have pdf's of all the books you need for the year so if you realize that you need the writer's handbook or any of the others, I'll share it with you for free.

If you're interested in the course reader or any of the books I have to offer, just shoot me an email at ************* and I'll be happy to help you out.

Fink was really engaging. I had next to no knowledge on musicology before taking this class and I was able to follow his lectures and learned a lot! Highly recommend. Also really enjoyable.