Winter 2014 Grade distribution:
Weekly discussion section 10%
Paper 1 15%
Misterm 25%
Paper 2 15%
Final 35%

Professor Schacher
The professor's voice isn't so monotonous as not too unique. Lectures were done with a powerpoint which was posted online as well. It was also podcasted so you could honestly never go to class and learn by yourself. If the podcast doesn't work one day, you can get notes from a friend who actually attended. You do not need the book, so don't buy it. Everything you need to know if given in lecture and his powerpoints. I thought he was a good teacher given the uninteresting content.

Weekly discussion section grade: A
Discussion attendance was mandatory. I has Gwyneth Talley, and she was a pretty cool TA. She was helpful in going over content and was pretty chill and approachable. As long as you attend and participate, you should get an A. At the end of the quarter she even bought us donuts because a majority of us sent in evaluations.

Paper 1 grade: A
The papers are really straightforward and easy. My TA told us exactly how she wanted our papers formatted, with the length of each section of the paper noted. You basically just pick a prompt covering the material, find an article (one discussion is dedicated to showing you where to look for one), have your TA approve it, and then answer the prompt according to your article. I usually procrastinated and waited until the last minute to do both of my papers, and I still got an A. As long as you're thorough, then you should do well.

Midterm grade: A-
The midterm was two parts: 20 multiple choice and 2 short answers out of four prompt options. It was incredibly easy and I finished way before the end time. As long as you go over lecture notes and his powerpoints you should be more than fine.

Paper 2 grade: A
The second paper was about the same as the first one. Very easy and straightforward.

Final grade: B+
The final was very similar to the midterm. 1/3 covers material before the midterm and 2/3 covers the rest of the class. It was 40 multiple choice questions and 3 short answers out of 6 prompts. He never wants you to know exact dates, just time frames relative between each event.

Overall
Overall, this class was fairly boring, but incredibly easy.

The class wasn't too bad, considering my lack of interest in archaeology. The class was fairly straightforward and mostly based on lectures for exams. Exams are short-essays.

Maybe I just enjoyed the topic immensely, but I really enjoyed his lectures. He has a slightly monotone voice but it was never a problem. He did a good job of presenting the material you need to know via lecture and the slides. Also helped that I enjoyed his sense of humor. Tried reading the textbook multiple times and found it to be very dense. In my experience, reading the textbook was more useful for first midterm than the final. Papers were a bit difficult but my TA was a fair grader. I was pleasantly surprised that I got an A in the class.

Two 4-5 page papers required. Pretty easy to write. Exams are kind of tricky, make sure to know the overall subject matter and you'll be okay. Lectures are Bruincasted, so you don't really have to go. Discussion is worth points. I never read a single reading assigned and still got an A.

I would say that his lectures would be really dry if you aren't interested in what he was talking about. I was kinda interested, so they were okay. Overall, is a decent GE to take.

I went into Anthro 2 thinking, "hey, archaeology has a reputation for being boring, but I bet it'll be interesting because we're at UCLA."
Wrong. Nope. Most boring class I've been in in a long time. I went to class almost every day, but I could absolutely not pay any attention to the lecture for more than 5 minutes. I had to Bruincast (thank god for that) every single lecture and take notes before the exams.

Grade breakdown for Anthro 2 with Schachner:
2, four page essays = 15% each, graded by the TA, not hard

3 multiple choice exams = 20% each (not hard if you pay attention in class - everything comes from the lecture, but his slides aren't too fantastic) -- no "final" exam.

10% = going to discussion (discussion was boring and useless, but you gotta go for the attendance grade)

Harsh grader, not an engaging lecturer. He won’t have mercy even if your first half of scores for the quarter were solid and your TA got changed late in the quarter due to injury with a new out of the loop one. Not a seamless transition and I feel he should have took that into consideration. He doesn’t grade on a curve so don’t drop the ball at any point in the quarter. Workload is heavier than upper division courses. I regret taking his course.

This class is super SUPER easy and doesn't really require too much effort to perform well. Lecture attendance isn't mandatory, but I do recommend it because he posts his slides but they are very brief. What he actually talks about in class is what you will be tested on. He does podcast each lecture though, so if you don't want to go to actual lecture you don't have to. This is an archaeology class so the lectures aren't very interesting, but they aren't hard to follow or pay attention to. There were 3 noncumulative tests (no actual final during finals week) each worth 20% and all multiple choice. The tests were super easy and all I did to study was read over my notes from class for like 15 min the night before each test. There are also two 4-5 page papers each worth 15% where you compare two articles. They are really easy to write and since they both have the same prompt the second one is even easier to write after knowing how you did on the first one. Discussion attendance is worth 10% of your grade so you do have to go. Discussion was pretty boring but super easy. Also, I never read a single assigned reading so don't worry about those.

The tradeoff for this class is that it's boring, but also very straightforward and easy. I appreciated that. Schachner is a G.

Overall this class was pretty chill, but chill as in you don't have a constant workload weighing on you but you'd still have to study pretty hard for the quizzes because they are open book but they're on a time limit and you WON'T have enough time to find individual answers.
The class structure is best 4 out of 5 quizzes given every 5 weeks, weekly discussion assignments -- maybe a short 3-4 question quiz or just discussion board posts and one garbology inventory (pretty fun). There's also a paper that counts towards 30% of your grade, it's basically comparing a janky buzzfeed type of clickbait article with it's original source from a journal, best 1 out of 2 papers, so if you do well on the first you can just ignore the second one.
Lectures weren't too heavy but I HATED the Australopithecus ape shit and did the absolute worst on that quiz, got about a 87/100 and 100 for the other quizzes (so don't underestimate the work you gotta put in for the quizzes tbh).
Lectures were okay, a little monotonous sometimes and he reuses recordings from previous quarters so it might be a little noisy and scratchy but not that big of a problem.
To me it was an easy A in terms of if you put in the work, you'll score.

This is one of the easiest GEs I took, I definitely recommend taking the class! Lectures were pre-recorded and posted every MWF. Sections are mandatory and participation is required, accounting for 20% of your overall grade. I had Eden as my TA, and she was incredibly nice and accepted answers in the chat as participation. There were 5 bi-weekly exams and the lowest one was dropped; they accounted for the other 80% of your grade. The exams were 1-3 short-essay questions and you had a maximum word count of 700. Although no textbooks were required, Schachner posted 2-3 articles that you have to read. These articles usually pertained to the exams, but I mostly used command-f to look for the answers. The grade you receive for each exam is 80% based on content and 20% based on writing style. I think Eden is a pretty lenient grader, considering I'm not the best writer. I got 3 As and 1 A-, so I didn't bother doing the 5th exam. I got an A as my section grade, even though I feel like I barely participated, and an A as my overall grade. If you have a heavy workload in your other classes, I definitely recommend taking this as a GE since the exams take about an hour each week (max 2 hrs if you're a bad writer like me).