This class was very interesting for the first couple of weeks. Then, I began to feel that the class was way too impersonal with 400 students all in one classroom. Although that was an unfavorable characteristic of the class I still enjoyed it.
The class is easy, but I highly recommend students go to office hours. Please try not to get Devaka Gunawardena as a T.A. He was so horrible. He never explained any of the assignments and did not like to explain the material in simpler wording. He struck me as very pompous.
Do not expect to fly by this class. It is challenging for a G.E.

I can't really make up my mind if I liked this class or not. The lectures were pretty interesting, especially for a random GE class. He assigns a bunch of reading, and definitely pulls the questions on the midterm and final from all the reading. We had one 8 page research paper, which was kind of a bitch. The midterm and final were both multiple choice. I ended up getting a B in the class, and I put in a lot of effort doing the readings and going to all of the classes. I would recommend the class though, just don't slack off on the paper and get to know your TA.

I took Anthropology 9 with him. Worst class I've ever taken at UCLA. Everyone told me the class would be easy...until they found out I had Throop. If your ready to deal with ill-informed TA's with being helpful the last thing on their mind, no lecture slides for his 85minute lecture,incredibly long and dense journal readings, and the vaguest multiple choice you have ever taken then take this class.

You might be asking. How can multiple choice be vague? Take this class and You will find out. I worked my ass off and got a B. I'm satisfied but I guess anthro really isn't for me.

It didn't help that my TA was just not helpful. Same with all of my friends TA's. I had a lot of friends in this class, 1 or 2 to each TA pretty much. Same story they all sucked.

Throop seems like a nice guy but don't expect him to throw you a bone. Lecture is incredibly boring, I've never seen so many people sleeping in 1 class. He also fell behind by 2-3 lectures because he spent so much time talking about his work with pacific islanders. This resulted in him rushing the last lectures which didn't help much for the final.

The final was curved pretty heavily. The class average was a 72%. My friend got a D- and still got a B in the class. out of 360 people 10 of them got 90 or better.

Basically if Anthro is your kinda subject you will probably like this class. For the rest of you out there wanting to just take this for a G.E. Don't take this with Throop. You will have way less reading and easier test with another professor. Just talking to my friends who are anthro majors and took this class with other professors made me mad lol. I had to do about 2-3x the reading they did and had a test full of bs.

Throop is a great professor and truly has a passion for his work and his teachings. The lectures are for the most part very interesting, but he does not post his power points online, so be sure to take good notes. I would definitely recommend this class to people who are interested in anthropology or looking for a good G.E. class for the social analysis requirement.

The class consisted of 3 writing projects: 1 annotated bibliography of 5 articles that you find on a subject of your choice, 1 thesis statement about the articles, and an 8 page research paper once again about the same 5 articles. The midterm was 45 multiple choice questions and the final was 75 multiple choice questions.

This class was my first anthropology class, and it was very intriguing and Throop really makes his ideas clear during lecture. There was a lot of reading, but the articles and books were not too difficult, and were for the most part very interesting.
My final grade: A+

Great professor, interesting lectures and very knowledgeable. I took this class to test if I would enjoy an Anthro minor and he definitely helped to peak my interest in the subject. The assignments are well spread out, the reading can be a bit lengthy but most of them are interesting. Good professor and interesting easy class.

Best. Professor. Ever.

He is really popular during office hours so I didn't really get to talk to him much but his lectures are interesting and he is very nice and helpful. I spoke to him all of two times and he was very warm to me after the final. I don't know what the other review is talking about!

A very knowledgeable professor in his field but quite rude to students that he doesn't regard as intelligent or that he doesn't have a liking for.