I loved this class! The lectures were engaging and I genuinely enjoyed learning the material. The discussion sections were fairly easy with short, simple assignments. The material was clearly presented in each lecture. The most difficult part was memorizing vocabulary and being familiar with the evolutionary timeline. However, after studying, I felt that the midterm and final were both very easy and straightforward. You'll do fine if you put in a decent amount of effort. It was not too time-consuming at all and there was little to no "busy work" or assignments unrelated to the lecture material. It felt at times like an easier version of LS1, more so in the first half of the quarter.

I loved this class! The lectures were engaging and I genuinely enjoyed learning the material. The discussion sections were fairly easy with short, simple assignments. The material was clearly presented in each lecture. The most difficult part was memorizing vocabulary and being familiar with the evolutionary timeline. However, after studying, I felt that the midterm and final were both very easy and straightforward. You'll do fine if you put in a decent amount of effort. It was not too time-consuming at all and there was little to no "busy work" or assignments unrelated to the lecture material. It felt at times like an easier version of LS1, more so in the first half of the quarter.

I really enjoyed this class. I was scared because the bruin walk reviews were bad but i signed up anyways and I'm so glad I did! Prof Barret is actually a really engaging lecturer, and he bruin casts everything so only about 50 people would be in class. The tests were not difficult (just a midterm and a final), and were really reasonable. The homework was also easy, you could just do it over and over on the website until you got it right, and the hw for discussion only took like 10 minutes also. I really really liked this class and I'm sad it has such bad reviews!

The test are hell bc they are short answer and you literally have to memorize every word and definition to have a fair shot. Lecture are kind of bland, my TA was no help at all and I'm horrible at memorization so I had a difficult time. I mean I guess a word bank would come in handy but we didn't get one. The class itself is pretty interesting

Tests are all short answers. Questions are written in a way that makes you think that a general answer explaining the concept would be enough. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. You've got to remember the specific vocabs used in the class (even for trivial stuff). Midterm was pretty time pressured.

Homework questions can be vague and weird at times.

Would not recommend as an easy GE. Take this class at your own risk

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i took anthro7 with silk in 09w, and we had this guy as a guest lecturer one time when professor silk was gone at a conference. My adivce: take anthropology 7 with silk. She at least has a good enough grasp on the material to present it in a coherent fashion. This dude sounded like he was constantly struggling to think of the words in his next sentence - he would pause every few seconds to think of what to say next, and it just made him really painful to listen to. I usually go to silk's lectures, but if i had this guy i'm sure i would NEVER go to lecture, cause he sucks at lecturing. To be fair, he probably had to cover for her on short notice, and it wasn't even his own powerpoint that he was presenting, but like i said, its just painful listening to him talk. Professor silk doesn't add many brilliant insights to the material either (she mostly just goes over the improtant points in the reading) but her lectures flow, and you feel like you understand the material better after hearing her talk about it. My opinion is just based on one lecture, so it is kind of biased, but i'd definitely take the class with Silk if i had a choice.

If you need to take Anthro 7, take it with Professor Joan Silk who co-wrote the book instead of Professor Barrett. I have never fallen asleep in a class in my entire academic career, but I came very close to snoozing during Barrett's lectures because they were filled with "ums" and were extremely boring. The only time the class had more than 1/4 of sudents in attendence was on the first and last day of lecture. My TA made discussion complicated and useless. There is weekly homework, a midterm, and a final, but Barrett does make a curve. The exams are difficult and require hand-written answers in paragraph form. Since there is so much material to cover and there are no guidelines, knowing what to study is almost impossible. I regret having taken this class, but if you do decide to take it, make sure to go to all lectures and really pay attention... if you can stay awake.

If you read all the reviews here, I believe you get the overall sense that Dr. Barrett is not the greatest of teachers. That being said, I believe that he teaches the class well, and everything you need to know is in the lecture. Of course, he makes the test, so you only need to know that. Regardless, I liked the class, and he makes fun of Bush, which is good. If you get bored, use the wireless in Haines for the Internet.

Barrett is a moderately boring lecturer. After a while, I stopped going. How to do well in this class (1-4) 1 being high priority. 1. Go to section (covers all the hard concepts and makes things understandable). 2. Study his lecture notes he puts online (will help u answer 75% of his tests). 3. Read the book (the rest of the 25% of test questions are from book stuff not covered in lecture). 4. Go to lecture. I only did 1 and 2, and hopefully I got a B+/A-/A in the class. Actually, if you read the book in its entirety, it would probably cover all his lecture material. But this class takes you through the WHOLE book...so its a good amount of reading. So yeah, its an average class, not too hard, but not very interesting either. If you need it for a major requirement(Psych, etc) its not too bad, but if you just need some random GE, I'm sure there are more interesting ones out there to take.