Final Reflection

This assignment offers you an opportunity to reflect holistically on your experiences this quarter, as well as to put some of those experiences to use by discussing a particular piece of music. Please submit two brief essay responses to the following two prompts. The responses can be separate pieces of writing from one another—you don't need to intertwine them into a single essay, although for the sake of simplicity, please upload them in a single file when you submit your assignment. Both of your responses should be focused, well developed, thoughtfully organized, and carefully proofread. Begin each response with a brief thesis-like statement which encapsulates the ideas you will try to convey in the response. Then, delve into a series of concrete, specific examples which are relevant to your overall claim; carefully analyze each example in a way that makes the meaning and relevance of the example clear to the reader. Finally, offer a concluding statement which reflects on the ideas you've explored. In short, we invite you to put the academic writing skills you are developing here at UC San Diego to good use, and to advance your ideas with clarity and seriousness of purpose. Part I: Reflect on your growth as a musician this quarter (250-400) Have your engagement, comprehension, and/or interests in the domain of music changed this quarter? If so, in what ways in particular? In other words, which course concepts and/or experiences have been most impactful to you, and what sort of impact specifically have they had? If you don't feel your relationship to music has changed this quarter, why do you think that is?