ANTH UN1007

3 papers. 1 about behavioral modernity. 1 creative about a non-agricultural society/primitive. 1 that's a choice of prompts.( I did mine on the impact of agriculture and how we view that Neolithic period.) 5-ish reading quizzes that you should take wayyyy more seriously than I did. Because I did them very casually not really thinking about how much weight they held on my fianl grade. Do the readings or at least know the concepts. and then do well on the quizzes. Weekly discussion posts for section. Very lowkey. Basically 5-7 sentences.

Weekly readings, in the beginning they were around 30-50 pages later we had to read books but he gave us usually two weeks to read the books two 5 page responses to films and one 10 page response to a book take home midterm & take home final

Lots of reading (that you don't actually need to do). Two papers. One take-home final exam.

Origins of Human Society: Light- 1 quiz, 1 midterm, a project, and a non-cumulative final. Weekly reading (don't bother). Rise of Civ: light- 1 midterm, 1 final (non-cumulative), and an optional paper reviewing a museum exhibit (really easy A- I recommend doing the paper).

I needed a Social Science. This sounded less social-justice warrior than the other class offerings. I wanted to just learn about humans and bodies. However, we still had 2-3 lectures on WOKE stuff. I was not a fan of her Politizicing Social Difference lecture or hor Professor sturm pushed an anti-western sentiment towards the class. Also tried to infuse social engineering with readings on race and gender. Other than that, the lectures were fine. It broadened my understanding of human evolution. Especially our technological, physiological, and agricultural development. I ended up understanding how societies and humans as homo sapien species came to be. She says um a lot. And the pace of the lecture is slow. My TA was Alexandra McDougle and she was a disaster. Barely facilitated group discussion. Talked about herself and infused everything through the lens of "Columbia sucks", "down with elitism". Lots of irrelevant tangents and did not push us at all to really engage with the readings. I didn't even do the readings honeslty and I was fine. Not the worst class. Just boring other than the human evolution lectures. So the majority of the class dates. But if you need the requirement it's not the worst. Just pick a good TA.

This is the best class I have taken at college so far! Sev is the coolest professor and he really cares about his students. His powerpoints are next level and you must at least shop his class to see how advanced and elite the quality of his powerpoints is. I don't think its possible to not be interested in this class. Sev is so passionate about what he teaches and wants to impart the most information possible on us to the point that we often don't finish the powerpoints each class session. Sometimes the amount of information and the rush to finish the powerpoint is a little bit overwhelming but Sev is just really good at his job and the information itself its very interesting so its not bad at all. Sev also has optional discussion sections that are kind of like labs, for example for one of them we got to see the skull casts of different hominid species, and for others we just reviewed with TAs and talked about essays. He also has "dangerous optional exercises" which include flint-knapping on Futter field and making and throwing paleolithic style spears at Riverside park. There is a decent amount of reading in this class around 50 pages per week in the beginning and by the end he gives us books to read but we usually have two weeks to finish those. We had two 5 pages essays, and one 10 page essay (all 3 essays were pretty open and allowed for creativity), a take home midterm, a…

I took this class purely for the fun of it - I didn't need it to fulfill any core or major requirements. I found Prof. Fewster to be a funny and engaging lecturer; however, even this (and the cute-rabbit pictures she snuck into every lecture) couldn't save the course from being mind-numbingly boring in the last few weeks. When the course turned to examining agricultural practices in extreme detail, it was hard not to fall asleep. However, if that's your thing, you might really enjoy it. I was present for Prof. Fewster's hour-long talk about questions worth asking and questions NOT worth asking. I didn't, however, find it condescending at all. It actually came as a relief -- there had been a lot of, "Well, when I used to baby-sit for one toddler last year in high school, I learned that ALL CHILDREN EVERYWHERE always behave in such-and-such a way..." and unfounded, anecdotal, and barely-related commenting happening from students. Prof. Fewster effectively curbed these irritating and unproductive conversations. She tried to keep assignments low-stress. While a lot of reading is assigned, it isn't necessary to do it. (You might want to books for reference material for your essays, though.) Two big papers and a take-home final (though there was some confusion with whether or not the final had been cancelled in the last several weeks of class.) All easy; all were graded really fairl…

Prof Gifford is a passionate professor who has a contagious enthusiasm for anthropology/archaeology. He teaches a good class, but is very spacey and tends to go off on tangents, which is often frustrating. The reading for both classes was VERY light, and most of it was not necessary- all the exams basically ask you to regurgitate everything he said in class. That said, if you go to class, you will do fine. He is a fair grader and offers assignments (like optional papers or projects) that will boost your grade. The TAs for this class were useless- don't bother going to section. Overall, these classes were enjoyable and relatively easy.

3 papers, usually 5-8 pages (1 on defining behavioral modernity with at least 3 sources (15%), 1 on creating a story about a world without large scale agriculture using readings from class to guide your writing (15%), final paper with several prompts to choose from with at least 3 sources (30%)) 25% - 4 reading quizzes, take home, not open notes (out of 5 questions, last reading quiz is like a course eval, guaranteed 5/5) The reading quizzes are opened on a Monday and you are given until 5 on Friday to take it They are also timed, 10 minutes 5%- Discussion section attendance is also taken and factored into grade even thought lecture attendance isn’t 10%- Weekly questions are prompts that are given each week based on the readings. Write three sentences, one per question, and submit before discussion section. Very annoying too.

2 3-5 page papers, an in-class midterm, a term paper, and a take home final. A little bit more work than an average humanities class.