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| Dec 2020 |
I took this class to fulfill a major requirement (not anthro) because the professor and class came highly recommended. While Professor AJ is super sweet and a good lecturer, I personally didn't find the content interesting. The weekly readings were super long and dense. We spent a considerable portion of the semester focusing on the histories of past anthropologists like another reviewer said, which I guess is important to our understanding of the discipline, but I wasn't expecting that going into it. Also, my TA did a bad job of facilitating discussion. The museum essays were fun to write, though!
| Apr 2020 |
If you're taking this class because you think it will be a fun and interesting one to fulfill your foundations requirements. Don't. Only take this class if you are genuinely interested because there is a huge workload that is not enjoyable if you don't genuinely like cultural anthropology. The class is structured well and the TAs are very nice. Professor AJ is a good lecturer but I personally would not take this class again because of how time consuming it was considering that I have no plans on going into this field at all. This class is a lot of work considering its at the introductory level. The actual content of the class is mainly the history of anthropology. So you just have to read a bunch of work by racist old white dudes for at least a month or two before you actually get into reading modern ethnographies.
| Mar 2019 |
Professor AJ is phenomenal for this course. She is thorough in her lectures, and they pair perfectly with all her assigned readings. While she assigns a heavy workload of reading, they are all clearly well thought out and relevant to her lectures. She is engaging to listen to, and thus a great professor for an introductory level course. Highly recommend!