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Jennifer Rashidi
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Fall 2023 - Dr. Rashidi is an excellent professor, though I think this course suffers from a time crunch. The sheer volume of dense information relayed means there's little time for discussion. All told there were over 1,000 slides by the end of my semester, most of them dense. If you are a humanities major, beware that you are expected to enter the course with a working knowledge of human biology, or at least not get lost in the information as you jump right into it from day one. In my opinion, the class should be a bit longer or cover slightly less information. The tests are difficult to study for as they are completely write-in and encompass anything mentioned in the slides up to and including single bullet points buried in hundreds of pages of information. However, with all that being said, Dr. Rashidi is a kind and wonderful professor. She records all the lectures in case you cannot make it, provides several extra credit opportunities, allows cheat sheets on the exams, and is available beyond her stated office hours and always willing to try and further your understanding of the material. While the tests are tough, she's a very fair (even generous) grader for the paper assignments. My recommendation: take the course if you're interested or have an aptitude in biology and disease processes, or if you have the time and ability to really sit down and study full-time.
Fall 2023 - Dr. Rashidi is an excellent professor, though I think this course suffers from a time crunch. The sheer volume of dense information relayed means there's little time for discussion. All told there were over 1,000 slides by the end of my semester, most of them dense. If you are a humanities major, beware that you are expected to enter the course with a working knowledge of human biology, or at least not get lost in the information as you jump right into it from day one. In my opinion, the class should be a bit longer or cover slightly less information. The tests are difficult to study for as they are completely write-in and encompass anything mentioned in the slides up to and including single bullet points buried in hundreds of pages of information. However, with all that being said, Dr. Rashidi is a kind and wonderful professor. She records all the lectures in case you cannot make it, provides several extra credit opportunities, allows cheat sheets on the exams, and is available beyond her stated office hours and always willing to try and further your understanding of the material. While the tests are tough, she's a very fair (even generous) grader for the paper assignments. My recommendation: take the course if you're interested or have an aptitude in biology and disease processes, or if you have the time and ability to really sit down and study full-time.
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Spring 2024 - Based on some of the other reviews, it seems like Dr. Rashidi has taken feedback to heart. Laptops are definitely allowed for note-taking, she posts all slides prior to class, and she now provides a study guide. In my opinion, she is very available for her students and genuinely wants you to do well. She provides a cheat sheet on both exams, as well as multiple opportunities for corrections and extra credit. She is always in her office hours and happy to speak with anyone who isn't understanding the material. I will say, this class utilizes her background in physical anthropology and you will be studying and working with bones as well as expected to learn a good deal about the skeletal system, because that is how anthropologists are able to delineate between the different groups of humans as well as nonhumans. In my opinion, that is the super cool part of this class! As with her other courses, the slides are very dense and she gets through a lot of material. The textbooks are an absolute must have as they go very far into detail on anything you might not have understood the first time around in class. Mark down what you didn't 100% get and look it up in the textbooks. Dr. Rashidi does provide all of the slides and a study guide, though, so if you follow along in class and put in the work to study, you will be fine.
Spring 2024 - Based on some of the other reviews, it seems like Dr. Rashidi has taken feedback to heart. Laptops are definitely allowed for note-taking, she posts all slides prior to class, and she now provides a study guide. In my opinion, she is very available for her students and genuinely wants you to do well. She provides a cheat sheet on both exams, as well as multiple opportunities for corrections and extra credit. She is always in her office hours and happy to speak with anyone who isn't understanding the material. I will say, this class utilizes her background in physical anthropology and you will be studying and working with bones as well as expected to learn a good deal about the skeletal system, because that is how anthropologists are able to delineate between the different groups of humans as well as nonhumans. In my opinion, that is the super cool part of this class! As with her other courses, the slides are very dense and she gets through a lot of material. The textbooks are an absolute must have as they go very far into detail on anything you might not have understood the first time around in class. Mark down what you didn't 100% get and look it up in the textbooks. Dr. Rashidi does provide all of the slides and a study guide, though, so if you follow along in class and put in the work to study, you will be fine.
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Winter 2023 - Super chill professor, midterm and final are very straight-forward. Lots of memorization required involving anatomical locations, bones, and things of that matter. My TA was extremely helpful and discussion/labs are required but are only an hour every week. I did little to no reviewing prior to exams and did ok. If I did review, I honestly could've achieved an A.
Winter 2023 - Super chill professor, midterm and final are very straight-forward. Lots of memorization required involving anatomical locations, bones, and things of that matter. My TA was extremely helpful and discussion/labs are required but are only an hour every week. I did little to no reviewing prior to exams and did ok. If I did review, I honestly could've achieved an A.
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