The content of this class was ok. However, what I really did not enjoy was how hard it was to access the professor. Although the professor was a nice person, he was often erratic in answering emails/having office hour sessions. Also, his instructions for the various assignments we did were pretty vague, which for me was hard to come by. Nevertheless, he is still OK and the class material is intriguing if you have never taken a course on Africa.

Taken during covid online. He gave me an A in the class and on my final paper. The final was a 9 page policy proposal for one of the countries in north africa. There was some lack of clarity, Yet I feel like he deserves some slack in his transition to online. Take him. If you put in a reasonable amount of effort its an
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This class was "study of culture" but he essentially treated it like those classes ending in 9, so it was really "anthropology of sport." There were usually 2-4 readings per week about mid-long length. Each week we had to submit questions to our TA as proof of having read the papers, but this wasn't a huge percentage of our grade.

There were 3 assignments: 1 to observe a sports game, 1 to interview/analyze an interview of an athlete, and 1 to write a biography on an athlete. Each of these assignments required us to apply core concepts. These were the bulk of the grade. They weren't too bad, but it depends on the TA that grades it. They were all also group assignments, so individually not that much work.

Aomar Boum was a pretty decent lecturer. He didn't record the lectures, but he did upload slides. The slides didn't have a lot of information either so if you wanted to learn the material you had to go to lecture.

I'm not sure how often this class is taught, but it wasn't very high stakes. It was easy and the topic was interesting. I would take it again.