An easy and interesting class if you do the readings and attend discussion actively. Professor Cattelino is so nice and very accommodating about classes being over zoom. Lectures were all recorded and quizzes were taken over a 12 hour time frame and open note. The two essays were not that much work and there were opportunities for extra credit.

Prof. Cattelino was amazing. Her lectures are very clear and interesting. Plus, she was very understanding of her students situations due to the pandemic and was open to extending deadlines for students who needed it. The weekly quizzes were not difficult and were great to just make sure you were absorbing the material in the lectures (almost all answers were literally in the lectures themselves). While the readings could be a little daunting, they were actually very interesting. I would 100% recommend anyone take this class.

I'm very surprised at how highly this class is rated. I love sociology, and thought an anthro class would be really interesting! However, the class was incredibly boring. Dry, long readings that created way too much of a workload. Lectures were also boring, and poorly designed---very little structure to them, the direction the class was going always felt unclear. The actual topics covered in lecture were very simple and easy to understand, although the professor taught them as if they were confusing and complex. This is likely why this class is highly rated, as it is easy in terms of concepts.

Professor Cattelino is very kind, considerate, and accommodating. The only assignments were weekly low-stakes quizzes (super easy as long as you pay attention to the lectures) which consisted of multiple choice questions and one short-response question (which may or may not rely on the readings for the week) and two term papers which were a little challenging to start, but the professor and TAs were very helpful and gave lots of feedback on how to write them. As someone who is not a social science major, I found this class to be an overwhelming amount of reading, but were usually thought provoking and interesting. In addition to the required texts for the course, a VPN is required for most readings. I would say the actual content of the course isn't difficult but the reading is dense.